My articles from Tough Nickel, Spinditty, Holidappy moved to Discover

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   ChitrangadaSharanposted 4 months ago

   Hi everyone,
   Today I noticed that my articles on niche sites— Tough Nickel, Spinditty and Holidappy have been moved to Discover.
   And no, I didn’t receive any notifications about this.
   Now, I believe that rest of the niche site articles will also be moved to Discover. It is just a matter of time.

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      Kenna McHughposted 4 months agoin reply to this

      That makes sense per HP's announcement. It seems they have foregone the email notices, though. https://hubpages.com/community/forum/36 … d-discover

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      Genna Eastposted 4 months agoin reply to this

      Thank you.  I have begun to do the same function, given that this HP-Discover change is still a bit of a mystery in terms of what is going where -- aside from LetterPile.

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         ChitrangadaSharanposted 4 months agoin reply to this

         I agree Genna.
         Thank you.

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      Gregory DeVictorposted 4 months agoin reply to this

      I had 14 articles moved from ToughNickel to Discover, and never received any emails regarding the move. Fortunately, most of my articles are on HobbyLark.

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         ChitrangadaSharanposted 4 months agoin reply to this

         Thank you Gregory, for your response.

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   ChitrangadaSharanposted 4 months ago

   Yes Kenna, I understand that we will not get any email notifications regarding this.
   It's a wake up call for those, who haven't backed up their work.

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   Venkatachari Mposted 4 months ago

   Can they disappear from Discover (also) if we don't back up? Should I back up my entire content?

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      ChitrangadaSharanposted 4 months agoin reply to this

      Yes Venkatachari ji!
      It’s always wise to back up your online content. I usually back up my work at the same time, when I publish it.
      I am not sure about Discover articles getting disappeared, but with so many changes happening, it’s good to back up your work.

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      Gregory DeVictorposted 4 months agoin reply to this

      That might be a wise decision. Many writers here have been backing up articles on a regular basis.

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         Kenna McHughposted 4 months agoin reply to this

         That's true, Gregory. I am shopping for a new program. Which program do you use?

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            Gregory DeVictorposted 4 months agoin reply to this

            Hello Kenna,
            
            I back up my HP articles in two ways. Since I have a Chromebook, I do the following:
            
            Go to the webpage that you want to save, such as an HP article.
            Select More in the top right corner of the webpage.
            Then, select Cast, save, and share.
            Select Save page as.
            Choose where to save the page.
            Select save.
            
            I just backed up my latest American nostalgia article that I published last night to my Chromebook.
            
            I also copy the entire article and paste it into my email provider, which happens to be Outlook.com. To do this, I do the following:
            
            Log in to Outlook.com.
            Click on New Mail.
            Address the email to myself.
            In the subject line, I enter the title of the article.
            I copy the entire article from HP and then paste it into the body of the email.
            I click on send.
            When the email reaches my Inbox, I automatically move it to a special HP backup folder that I have created.
            
            I published a new American nostalgia article last night, and I just backed it up to both sources.
            
            Edit: You can copy the article from "Author View," if you choose. That is what I have been doing.

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               Genna Eastposted 4 months agoin reply to this

               Thanks for this very helpful comment, Greg.

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               Kenna McHughposted 4 months agoin reply to this

               I agree, Genna. Very helpful, Gregory. Thank you.

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                  Gregory DeVictorposted 4 months agoin reply to this

                  Kenna, Chromebooks don't have a lot of storage space, and the amount varies depending on the make, model, etc.
                  
                  Taking this issue into account, when you set up a new Chromebook, you will be asked if you want all of your files to be automatically saved to the Google drive. It is highly recommended that you choose this feature, because it could save you a lot of headaches over the course of time.

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   Venkatachari Mposted 4 months ago

   Gregory, I do the same job of emailing me if I want to save any links to content from websites. I put some titles in the subject column and then paste the URL link into the content. In this way, I can reach out to that article whenever I have time and in the mood.
   
   But, I never thought of saving HP articles as backups. Now, I will do it. I am a subscriber to Office 365 a paid storage from Microsoft. It is a family plan with a one TB storage capacity. I used 4% till now.

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      Gregory DeVictorposted 4 months agoin reply to this

      With 4% only used up to this point, that is quite remarkable. I don't particularly like going through the process of backing everything up, but it is a necessary evil like paying sales tax. Good luck on your project though.

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   eugbugposted 4 months ago

   Scroll all the way down your article until all the images load before saving. And turn off ads too. As far as I remember, images are lazy loaded and only appear as one scrolls, so saving without viewing the whole page doesn't save them all. Also save the Discover or network site version, not the author version because clicking "source" in the caption doesn't work to show the image source details (the optional text and link added at design time). If articles have to be rebuilt later on another site, these may be needed for attributing images.

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      Gregory DeVictorposted 4 months agoin reply to this

      Thanks for the excellent advice. I was originally backing up the articles on "Author View" just to avoid all of the pesky ads and whatever else.
      
      Edit: I never, ever thought about turning off the ads first before backing up an article. That's why I resorted to backing up the articles on Author View.
      
      After all, our articles look quite professional when seen on Author View.

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      ChitrangadaSharanposted 4 months agoin reply to this

      Thank you Eugene, for your helpful tips.

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      bravewarriorposted 2 months agoin reply to this

      Thanks for this, Eugene.

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   Venkatachari Mposted 4 months ago

   I simply copy-paste the text content only avoiding the images. So, I do it in a document, give a title to it, and then save that document on Onedrive.

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   bhattucposted 4 months ago

   It is happening since quite some time. What I understand is that HubPages wants to strengthen discover platform.

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