Vox shuts down, users can migrate to TypePad, Posterous or Wordpress

Vox shuts down, users can migrate to TypePad, Posterous or WordPress

My Clippings September 3rd, 2010 by System

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If you’ve been using the Vox blogging service, you’ve got until September 30 to figure out what to do with your blog. Vox is closing its doors so that Six Apart can focus on its other blogging platforms, Moveable Type and TypePad. They’re at least trying to soften the landing for Vox users, though: you can easily move your Vox blog to TypePad, and export your Vox photos to Flickr.

Posterous, famous for creating tools that let you move over from other blogging platforms, is also offering a new home to Vox users. Six Apart’s main competition, WordPress, is also an option.

If you’ve been using Vox for your OpenID signin, that will be supported until September 30, and then TypePad will handle it. A spokesperson for Six Apart clarified the OpenID situation for us:

After 9/30, if you’ve migrated your blog to TypePad, any OpenID requests to your blog will have authentication delegated to TypePad.
TypePad is also an OpenID provider, so the mechanism of delegation that we’re using is perfect for that.

I can’t vouch for the smoothness of export process to each of these different platforms. Users in the comment thread at Vox’s closing post seem to be having wildly varying degrees of luck.

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