[Richy L]

Have any of you done it yet?

I understand if you just leave it your website, email addresses, etc will stop.
They are pulling the plug at the end of April 2012

[Blast Away]

Got the emails today mate, looks like I'll be doing the transition! 

[Matt Gibson]

Got the email too.. I changed over to wordpress, so im just gonna let it go..

[Scoop]

Very cheesed off about this. I signed up on the specific understanding that this was a free service. Microsoft have plenty of money from me in other ways. Forget the rubbish about 'all the extra features'. I don't want to pay $72 a year for what currently costs me nothing.

Will try to switch my site to Google.

[Richy L]

It's a pain isnt it!


I'm thinking I will just stay with microsoft as the sites works well, I like the layout and I like being able to change it as and when I like.

Do you have any idea how bad the change over is? do we have to completely redo our sites from scratch?

[Scoop]

There's a whole discussion here

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=146456.0

Everyone seems to be saying it's very hard 

Not only do we have to pay, we also have to become fully qualified microsoft experts as well - sickening.

[S.A.J]

Complete nightmare  transferred the domain name over but lost all the content!!!! started to rebuild and then lost all that too 

Not as easy as they make out!!!!!!!!!!!

Might have to get a tech to have a look