With Google+ disappearing, is anyone starting a similar community or blog anywhere else?

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With @Google disappearing, is anyone starting a similar community or blog anywhere else?

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You might find the right answer in the Google+ Mass Migration community.

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It’s a good question… unfortunately I’m not aware of another place anything like this. There is the venerable RISKS Digest, of course, and also the curated list of everything here:

It’s not quite a list of post mortems but the All Things Nuclear blog often covers accidents, near-misses, and risks:

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SRE Weekly often links to postmortems, though it’s broadcast-only, no discussion possible.
http://sreweekly.com/

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There’s a fair chance someone will put up a site based on a backup of this community - that’'s easy to do if you have $20 to buy a Google+ Exporter license, which gives you a ready made upload to wordpress or blogger.

It would be an easy next step, I think, to make further posts or to appoint multiple contributing editors.

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I made a backup and would be willing to continue the community elsewhere.

Would be nice to find a way to connect and merge with another community-of-practice for long term resilience…

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gonna miss this site. Hope you can migrate it somewhere else. (maybe Reddit?)

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Please let us know, @Paul_Lindner , if and when you’ve put up a new version.

It seems the Google+ Exporter has been updated again, with bug fixes, so a new backup will (again) be better than previous ones. It’s worth noting that any restore of the backed up data will also need to have a restore of all downloaded images, as Google will delete all G±only images and previews at shutdown.

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I don’t think that you can import old posts into Reddit. Looks like there are some options brewing over at

https://plus.google.com/communities/112164273001338979772

I don’t see Discourse listed yet (which would be a 1st choice).

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I know only of easy imports to blogger and wordpress, using the Google+ Exporter tool. Either would serve as a static archive and a signpost to somewhere else. Or, just possibly, wordpress with comments enabled and multiple contributing editors would serve, and the static archive could perhaps be a live community.

Discourse is high on my list too. But probably as a fresh start, with a possible signpost to a static archive on wordpress.

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Has anyone looked at setting up the Discourse (or other, e.g. Diaspora pod) replacement? This seems like the sort of thing that we’d want to do now-ish, even without importing, so that it’s findable after dark…

(This is something I need to look into for personal stuff anyways, so this is in the vein of deconflicting in case someone’s already made progress.)

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I’ve half-set-up a discourse instance and found it a little tricky. That’s for retrocomputing, not for postmortems.

I’m using a hashtag on diaspora to continue my posts. Quite a few other people are doing that on diaspora with the retrocomputing hashtag, no-one is yet doing it with a postmortems hashtag.

The very simplest things to set up to allow people to stay in touch:

It’s simple to set up a wordpress blog but not so simple to make a multi-contributor community of it.

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Here’s a tool which imports G+ Exporter output into a discourse instance:

via

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Hmm, leveraging OAuth to maintain ownership of posts in a migrated Discourse instance is pretty neat: https://musings.danlj.org/2019/03/02/accidental-digital-archivist.html

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