My Bubblews article is gone!
@RonElFran (1214)
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
November 20, 2015 2:19pm CST
Perhaps I've been a little smug about the demise of Bubblews. You see, months ago I anticipated that it might happen, and that if it did, Arvind and company probably wouldn't go out of their way to make it possible for writers to retrieve the articles they had posted to the site.
So, like any modern technical wiz, I wrote an app. My app downloaded all my Bubblews articles to my computer, and automatically did the same with any new ones I posted. So, I was sure I was covered when the shutdown finally happened and our articles could no longer be accessed online.
But just today I went looking for a particular article, and it's not on my computer! It appears that my app successfully downloaded the rest of my articles, but for some reason this one isn't there.
What makes it worse is that it's one of the few I've found that are not saved in Google's cache, so I can't recover it that way.
Oh well, that article wasn't worth anything, it's not anything I could reuse, and I don't really want it anyway. That's what I'll keep telling myself until I believe it.
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@TheHorse (220068)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Nov 15
There was one I forgot to copy from Epinions that was one of my favorite all-time pieces. Now I have no access to it. To make matters worse, it got picked by a website that explicitly sells papers to college students to plagiarize. So it's out there, but I can't access it unless I pay for it. My own work is being used for illicit purposes AND held for ransom. I contacted the FBI about that website, but of course they haven't done anything about it.
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@CallieWVU2 (520)
• United States
21 Nov 15
Well I honestly don't feel it was a scam, I made over $3,000 on the site within 2 and a half years, and it brought me out of a depression and made me have self worth when I didn't have any. And I was able to buy a plane ticket to go to Portland,Oregon to see my then boyfriend. I do think they could have left it up without payment, but they decided not to.
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@Bluedoll (16773)
• Canada
21 Nov 15
Hello @euphie 
I hate to disagree though many of the good writers wanted their material to post originally elsewhere did and would continue to delete their posts that is true. It was because of non-payment mostly.
That would not have stopped the use of the site though slow it down considerably. Mylot survived for example without paying people.
However, someone else could have managed it and kept the site alive perhaps on a not for profit basis but still a paying site in some manner. They made a cold calculated business decision. People/community means nothing when door is slammed shut is what I am saying in this thread.
I hate to disagree though many of the good writers wanted their material to post originally elsewhere did and would continue to delete their posts that is true. It was because of non-payment mostly.
That would not have stopped the use of the site though slow it down considerably. Mylot survived for example without paying people.
However, someone else could have managed it and kept the site alive perhaps on a not for profit basis but still a paying site in some manner. They made a cold calculated business decision. People/community means nothing when door is slammed shut is what I am saying in this thread.1 person likes this
@ReViewMeMedia (3785)
• United States
21 Nov 15
I save all my article writing on my computer so I've never had this problem.
@eagletrek2 (5499)
• Kingston, New York
20 Nov 15
canu make a free app for smart phone and computers for people to save there post on and just put adds on to cover the cost I like that idea of apps to save post I have some on a memory disk but then I lost the disk oy lol
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. I saved mine into my drafts when I wrote them, so have them all.
@Marilynda1225 (83063)
• United States
20 Nov 15
Pretty genius making an app to download all your Bubbles. Sorry the one you wanted got lost
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
20 Nov 15
Lucky you are a tech whiz to have your stuff downloaded, many people I know weren't that lucky. So I wouldn't worry about just 1 article, some people lost hundreds.
@JudyEv (341752)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Nov 15
The power of suggestion is very strong so I hope it works for you. I write everything in Word so I have copies off all my posts, not that too many of them are worth saving. I would rewrite a post I think if I wanted to use much the same material again.
@cindiowens (5120)
• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
20 Nov 15
I tried to get to mine, but I just got the "site is down" notification. They are history. Oh well. I have much more to say than what I wrote there.
