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Post by Dana on Sept 3, 2015 10:51:32 GMT -5
Has there been any more word from about.com as to how much longer the threads over there are going to be available for viewing and/or participation? I'm considering copying "Dana's Journey" to here somewhere - it will take me awhile - I'd hate to get halfway through and then *poof* the rest is gone. Along those lines, would you mind creating a category for Journals/Personal Stories?
Thank you for all you do!!
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Post by BuddyT on Sept 3, 2015 17:55:58 GMT -5
We never know when the tech staff is going to get around to these type things. Your guess is as good as mine. All I can suggest is that you copy as much as you can and paste it into a text file and save as you go and then when you are finished (or the forum disappears) you can paste them here. That will save you some time while the clock's ticking on the old forum shutdown.
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Post by Dana on Sept 3, 2015 18:06:27 GMT -5
Okay thank you for getting back to me BuddyT. Would you mind creating a category for journals or personal stories, or something along those lines?
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Post by Dana on Sept 3, 2015 18:44:35 GMT -5
I'm on a mission... I'm about halfway done now, copying the thread to a .txt file. Maybe only 40 more minutes to go! Not as bad as I thought it would be. Yes, I'm saving as I go...
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Post by Dana on Sept 3, 2015 19:15:11 GMT -5
Done! Whew!!! My hand hurts from holding the mouse <click, click, press and hold and scroll to copy, click, paste, click, click, etc.>.
I need to get out of here now... I'll have to go back through it and delete some of the gibberish, like when a picture was part of the text it's all gibberish. And I know there are posts that were {Message Truncated} so we'll only get part of those messages, hopefully not too many of them. But at least it's in a text doc, that's a start! Thanks for the suggestion BuddyT!
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Post by angelina1512 on Sept 8, 2015 2:21:08 GMT -5
hey Buddy,
I had to use another computer and I couldnt find us. We are on page 2 if looking for alcoholism. Is there anyway you can bump us up to page one.
if looking up withdrawals it takes us to our old home. hope you can help.
thanks Buddy.
angelina
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Post by BuddyT on Sept 8, 2015 14:38:00 GMT -5
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Post by BuddyT on Sept 8, 2015 14:50:35 GMT -5
Angelina, I wish I had to power to place any page I wanted on the first page of Google search returns, but it doesn't work that way. New sites rarely jump to the top of the result especially when search for "generic" terms. It will take time, if it ever happens. On the Alcoholism.about.com home page I have a item up at the top of the page that says, "Have a Question About Alcoholism?" It links to an article that links to this forum. I plan to have that on the home page four days a week, alternating with an item about hangovers the other three days. We are probably going to have to accept the fact that this forum is never going to get the kind of newcomer traffic the old forum did when it was linked to from every page of the 20,000 pages on the Alcoholism.about.com site. |
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Post by angelina1512 on Sept 8, 2015 17:15:35 GMT -5
Hey Buddy,
is is there any other way we could spread the news about us? I joined the smoking cessation and they are so busy it does my head in, but a bit more traffic here would be good.
maybe someone that reads here knows someone that could do an article on our site.
Thank you you for taking the time to tell me and all the time you put into this site.
angelina
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Post by angelina1512 on Sept 15, 2015 20:30:32 GMT -5
Hey buddy T,
i put a photo of myself in Angelina's journal! it was right! then when I sent the next message it was right! and then it turned upside down. Now it has me hanging like a bat. Oh no just answered my question it's karma.
sorry Buddy was going to ask you to turn it around for me if you could. But maybe I'm suppose to hang like a bat.
angelina
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