Shutting Down Follow Up - Updated

I’d like to thank everyone who wrote publicly and privately in support of the service. The kind words you have all expressed are very much appreciated and tell me that all the hard work was well-received. Seriously, thank you!

Since the announcement a few hours ago, a lot of questions popped up. I think the list below covers them all; if not please write a comment below and I’ll answer you directly. Alternatively, my email is pierre AT cli.gs.

• Am I willing to sell the service? Of course! As I said to everyone who’s asked that, I’m very open to any idea that keeps the service running. On top of that, I’m can also guarantee some time after the sale to help transition to the new owners and to advise them about how the service works (technically) and about the market. The point here is that I cannot continue to be the only one running the service.
• A related question that needs answering: Cligs is written in PHP hosted on EC2 and SimpleDB.
• How will the analytics data export work? As it stands in the internal beta, it works by exporting each clig’s details into a tab-separated file (a TSV file). TSV files are supported across all platforms and so ensure you will be able to access your data no matter what.
• What will happen to the user accounts after shutdown? They will remain functional at least till the end of November, and probably for longer to ensure everyone has a chance to download their analytics.
• Update 1: What about 301Works? As a founding member of 301works, of course it’s something I know about and thinking how to best use it in this instance.

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