How to: Move your blog off of weblogs.asp.net (aka ‘This Blog has moved’)

This blog has now officially moved into http://osherove.com/blog .

Thank you DotNetWeblogs and ScottWater for creating this blog site to begin with. It used to be a great community site, which I was proud to be part of.

  • Why?

Thank you Microsoft for abandoning it and leaving its users hopelessly stuck unable to move to other blog platforms. Today it is ugly, unmaintained, and 7 versions back in the CommunityServer version. This horse is almost as dead as live spaces, only Microsoft isn’t planning on reincarnating it into wordpress any time soon.

  • What’s the new RSS feed for the new blog?

It’s the same. you don’t have to change anything, since I’m using FeedBurner for the feed.

It’s still http://feeds.feedburner.com/Iserializable

  • I want to move my blog out of this site as well!

We’ve released the tool that has exported my project as an Open Source tool over on CodePlex:

http://blogmigrator.codeplex.com/

  • Will this work for other CommunityServer based sites? (such as blogs.microsoft.co.il , blogs.msdn.com ?)

It should, since the tool is based on XML-RPC. It also supports SquareSpace and WordPress, so you should be able to:

  • Move your blog from WordPress to Squarespace
  • Move your blog from WordPress to CommunityServer
  • Move your blog from Squarespace to WordPress
  • Move your blog from SquareSpace to CommunityServer
  • Move your blog from CommunityServer to Squarespace
  • Move your blog from CommunityServer to WordPress

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