After software developers at Soapblox waved the white flag and said they were ceasing operations Wednesday, and despite many peoples' offers of advice and free help to get Soapblox siteowners onto something more robust and open, some have decided the best thing to do was to, well what else, embrace Soapbox even more. They've started a fund raising drive for it, and at the moment have raised almost $10,000 to "Save Soapblox".
There must be a good reason right? Naturally.
As cited in Why SoapBlox Matters Soapblox must be saved because:
"SoapBlox includes all the major features of a community blog -- namely, user diaries and other community-building features. These features are NOT readily available in any other software platform WordPress, MoveableType and others make it exceedingly difficult to do things like diaries and frontpage promotions, and SoapBlox makes it easy."
Got that? Soapblox needs to be saved there aren't things like user diaries (e.g., user-blogs) in other software platforms. (...)
