Are you saying you wrote directly in the platform? You didn't write in Word first and then submit/transfer it to the platform? If so, wow. Yes, this is a huge bummer.
I save everything. Including endless drafts. All on Word and all backed up.
Yep. I've been an idiot. And now, I'm paying a developer $300 to help me scrape the website to get my work into an archive that I can have IN MY OWN POSSESSION. Tough lesson learned. Hope this helps others to avoid the mistake I made.
Happy Update: I was able to find and pay a developer who scraped the ChicagoNow site and send me every one of my full posts (including the graphics). What a relief…and what a lesson to learn.
Are you saying you wrote directly in the platform? You didn't write in Word first and then submit/transfer it to the platform? If so, wow. Yes, this is a huge bummer.
I save everything. Including endless drafts. All on Word and all backed up.
Yep. I've been an idiot. And now, I'm paying a developer $300 to help me scrape the website to get my work into an archive that I can have IN MY OWN POSSESSION. Tough lesson learned. Hope this helps others to avoid the mistake I made.
This is a good lesson. Unless it is our own self-hosted blog, we don't own or have control of the platforms where we post our work.
I write everything in Word. Then copy and paste to Medium, Substack, Wordpress etc. That way, I still have a copy of everything I have written.
Happy Update: I was able to find and pay a developer who scraped the ChicagoNow site and send me every one of my full posts (including the graphics). What a relief…and what a lesson to learn.
Oh my gosh! That must have been brutal!!!