Bring back German Chinesepod Blog
Joachim
April 03, 2009, 04:53 PM posted in General DiscussionUntil recently, I blogged at blogs.chinesepod.com/de - Chinesisch lernen, the German blog for Chinesepod.
Without further notice, this blog was disconnected some 5 days ago.
It was one of the blogs to support communities from German, French, Korean and Spanish speaking countries and Frank Fradella's newbie blog.
Most of them had not been updated for months.
The German blog HAD been updated. My last entry was on March 30th.
I have asked Chinesepod to resurrect it, but have not received a (positive) answer, yet.
At least, I'd wanted it to be accessible in an archive of sorts.
I - and formerly anne m. - have put quite some time and effort in that blog.
I would appreciate any comments, support or proposals how to retrieve on possible automatic online archives that might have documented this blog.
matt_c
April 09, 2009, 05:15 PM@Calkins The person most likely to help me find answers wasn't around today, but hopefully will be tomorrow. Will keep you posted.
Joachim
April 03, 2009, 07:56 PMhenning:
From what I understand it has been suspended on purpose and not by accident.
No glitch, then. I suspected it to be a glitch at the time or a problem of internet access in China where I was at the time. This is why I sent an email to Cpod and was informed that the blog had be discontinued.
kencarroll
April 04, 2009, 12:03 PMNot sure what happened here. Ppl are off for the weekend, but I'll try to look into it.
Joachim
April 04, 2009, 04:48 PMken:
Thanks for looking into it! I'd really appreciate to have it back - at least have things archived and maybe continue with it on a different server.
Btw: My last blog post was on March 23rd. The above date of March 30th is wrong. 不好意思！
Sue
April 04, 2009, 06:54 PMApropos - was ist aus Bazza geworden ? Habe lange nichts von ihm gehört. Anyone else heard anything from Bazza ?
henning
April 04, 2009, 07:01 PMsue,
ja - er ist noch unter uns. Er schreibt aber, dass er CPod jetzt primär die iPhone-Seiten nutzt - und diese schränken bekannterweise die Interaktionsmöglichkeiten etwas ein.
Joachim
April 04, 2009, 07:57 PMsue3:
He is happy about anyone following him on twitter: http://twitter.com/8a22a .
excuter
April 05, 2009, 02:38 PMplz bring it back, I don´t have an answer to my latest question asked there yet... and it realy is a usefull source, not to mention the efford that is put into this blog!
加油GCP-blog加油
henning
April 06, 2009, 05:03 PMJoachim,
any news?
henning
April 03, 2009, 06:43 PMI sure hope this is nothing but a technical glitch.
Otherwise one might suspect what might happen to Groups one day. Or the Activity Stream.
There already has been way to much user generated content that has been flushed without further notice. Remember how Bazza entered all British towns into dict.chinesepod? What has been done to the Saturday show and all those billions of comments over "at Extra"? An there have been several occations where *valuable* lesson comments were deleted by the bulk (e.g. after cn.chinesepod was reintegrated into V3).
That Blog has a history. CPod is not only risking to demotivate yet another long-term and high-value contributer. When continuing to act like this there is a risk of losing the community as a whole.
excuter
April 08, 2009, 09:15 AMDu solltest so weitermachen wie bisher...aber um den blog aktuell zu erhalten brauchst du warscheinlich eine 2. person oder?
matt_c
April 08, 2009, 10:24 AM@Joachim So super sorry for leaving you hang like this - we've just had a long 3 day weekend. Due to a data loss by the web service provider which hosts the blog - the blog disappeared. We've managed to restore it via backups (Whew!). Happy to tell you that it is back up and running. I believe it to be fully restored but please PM me if there is anything missing. Again I apologise for any inconvenience to you as I know you and Anna have worked really hard on this. Thanks mate!
Matt Coleman
ChinesePod Product Manager
calkins
April 08, 2009, 11:34 AMHey Matt,
This isn't nearly as important as the German blog, but is there any word on last week's day of lost posts? Were those also on the backups?
Again, not nearly as important, but it'd still be nice if we could get them back, or at least know. Thanks!
matt_c
April 08, 2009, 01:28 PM@Calkins Last week we switched to a more stable server. As you may be aware, problems can arise in these situations. I'll look into it again tomorrow morning and hopefully let you know the status of the comments and posts from the 'Day the Earth the Discussions Stood Still'. Whether it's looking good, or grim, I'll keep you posted. :-)
calkins
April 08, 2009, 01:39 PMThat's cool Matt...thanks for letting everyone know what happened. Not a big deal if they are lost in the 'Discussion Abyss' forever, it's just nice to know why it happened, and that it happened for the future good of our 'Conversation Bliss' ;)
Joachim
April 08, 2009, 02:47 PMHURRAY! IT'S BACK!
Thanks a lot to suxiaoya, Ken, matt_c and the people who were able to retrieve the backup and have it up and running again!
I really do appreciate your efforts!
I am not promising any major improvement, but I am confident that I'll keep posting for quite some time.
And now something in German:
Vielen Dank auf für die Unterstützung an henning, excuter, sue3! Ich freue mich durchaus auf Verbesserungswünsche. Da Anne nun wirklich nicht mehr mitmacht, nehme ich gern den Vorschlag von excuter auf, die Bloggerei zu teilen.
Keine falsche Bescheidenheit: Wer möchte da mitbloggen? Vielleicht ein deutscher Newbie?
matt_c
April 09, 2009, 04:26 AM@Henning I understand and appreciate your concern, I know that you have the community's best interests in mind. This was a technical glitch, nothing intentional. :-)
Joachim
April 08, 2009, 08:34 AMMein letzter Informationsstand: Man arbeitet an einer Wiederherstellung. Es bleibt zunächst spannend!
Im Vorgriff darauf freue ich mich über Hinweise, was in Zukunft vom Deutschen Chinesepod-Blog erwartet wird.
Joachim
April 03, 2009, 04:57 PMErrata:
"...effort into..."
"...proposals on how to retrieve the blog entries from possible..."