As more and more people seem to be having trouble contributing to (or in quite a few cases now, even simply viewing) this blog, we feel that after nearly 12 years of successful operation it has run its course.
However, having somewhere up-to-the-minute for local moth recorders to circulate what they've been seeing and to ask questions is still just as important as it ever was, perhaps even more so now with increasing numbers of people turning to this fascinating subject, so we've decided to change platforms rather than wind things up altogether. After some research, and much as some of us personally dislike using it, the only suitable place would seem to be Facebook, so this blog will migrate to a newly-established private Facebook group in the next week or two. Watch this space...
Will it be possible to preserve the blog history somewhere? Every now and then I find it helpful/interesting to look back at earlier posts.
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ReplyDeleteWe don't intend to close it down as such, just stop adding posts, so it should just sit dormant until Google eventually decides to stop supporting Blogger (which I suspect will happen sooner or later). There are a handful of other moth-related Blogger sites which I keep a very occasional eye on. Some of them haven't been active since before the pandemic and one for about ten years now and they're all still visible and searchable, so hopefully this one will be available to view for quite some time yet.
Thanks Dave. Fingers crossed then!
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