Recent Hubpages Survey

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   Genna Eastposted 5 weeks ago

   I noticed this just two days ago on my Stats page.  Out of curiosity, has anyone else received a survey request quite recently:
   
   HubPages Feedback Survey
   
   Thank you for taking the time to fill out this very simple survey. Your feedback is extremely valuable to us.
   
   How likely would you be to recommend HubPages to a friend?
   
   Not at all likely. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Extremely likely.
   
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      bravewarriorposted 5 weeks agoin reply to this

      Yes, I did when I had to sign back in. As I have for the past couple of years, my responses were "not at all likely".

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         Carb Divaposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

         I received one yesterday. Insert huge eyeroll emoji.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 5 weeks ago

   Absurd isn't it?

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      bravewarriorposted 5 weeks agoin reply to this

      The right hand doesn't know what the left hand's doing. Why leave a survey hours before the doors close????

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   Jodahposted 5 weeks ago

   How ridiculous to even release a survey now. It just shows how out of touch they are.

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      Robert Sacchiposted 5 weeks agoin reply to this

      It could be a case of automatic pilot.

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   Genna Eastposted 5 weeks ago

   Hi Shauna, John, Robert and Rupert... 
   
   I was just really surprised to see it at this juncture and was wondering if it had popped up on other stat pages as well.

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   CYong74posted 5 weeks ago

   That ridiculous survey is just one of various things left unattended on this platform. Like the niche site logos, etc.

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   Jodahposted 5 weeks ago

   Yes, I have been reporting.

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      bravewarriorposted 5 weeks agoin reply to this

      So have I. Alexander306 is the biggest offender.

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         Jodahposted 5 weeks agoin reply to this

         Yes, he is the one.

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      Genna Eastposted 5 weeks agoin reply to this

      Thank goodness HP deleted those awful photos and banned this guy. Sheesh!

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   Rupert Taylorposted 5 weeks ago

   It's interesting that now we are spared the tsunami of spam in the forum but it wasn't possible to stop it before.

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      Robert Sacchiposted 5 weeks agoin reply to this

      I guess that's what happens when the show is closing down.  Is there any place to go besides Medium?

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         Genna Eastposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

         Hi Robert...
         
         Some are having their work copied over to Authory.com.

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            bravewarriorposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

            Authory is a portfolio site i.e. place holder. You don't earn money from having your articles on Authory. You can, however, use it as a freelance writer's website with the purpose of attracting clients to your services via the Contact button.

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               Genna Eastposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

               Exactly.  I believe you and Patty Inglish copied yours over as well.  I am in the process of "parking" mine there as a storage freelance site for various reasons before I join The Hub Community on Medium in Jan-Feb. This will preceed my final deletion of my remaining content on HP in the coming weeks.  (And we have to be careful to select the Authory backup view-save as opposed to the HP link view in order to avoid the 404 error message down the road.)

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                  bravewarriorposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

                  Exactly. The Authory backup view is a much cleaner copy than the HP link, anyway. No ads getting in the way.

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                  Robert Sacchiposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

                  I migrated my first article to Medium today:
                  
                  https://medium.com/@rsacchi001/andrews- … b6412ce27b

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   Jodahposted 4 weeks ago

   I was trying to export to Authory. At first it was going okay, but every article had a big HubPages logo emblazoned at the top, I asked if they could get rid of that, so they had to do the importing again. They were only able to move 88 out of over 600 articles, because they said HubPages were blocking the export agressively.

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      Genna Eastposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

      Hi John...
      
      I ran into the same problem with the HP logos when having what remains of my HP content copied to Authory.  They removed the HP logos for me. 
      
      I only have 20 or so publications left on Hubpages, so I didn't experience the HP export blocking.  I'm sorry to hear that happened to you, John. Thank you for letting others know, and warning them of this problem.

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         bravewarriorposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

         I'm in the process of editing my Authory imports. When they removed HubPages from the top of each page, a bunch of gobbledygoop showed up wherever an apostrophe, quotation marks, or em dashes were in the originals. HP is aggressively blocking Authory's efforts to import articles for us. It sucks because before Authory removed HubPages and had to do a second import, my articles were beautiful and nestled nicely in their respective collections. Fortunately, 132 of my 134 articles made it through the second import (to remove HubPages from top of page/underneath titles). I don't know what happened to two of them or which ones they are, but during my arduous editing process I hope to figure out which articles missed the second pass . When I do, I can manually import them to Authory. It'll be a pretty site when I finish the edits and direct each article/short story to the appropriate collections I've set up. But it'll take a while. I worked on it all day today and only got 14 articles edited (removal of rogue symbols, attributing the photos) and placed back into the collections where I want to showcase them.

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            Genna Eastposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

            I've had to do editing as well, Shauna, with various "gobbledygoop"  that showed up, in addition to adding an "About" page, a "Testimonial" page, rearranging the order of content in the Collections sections, and more. Once this has been completed, I can then publish.
            
            Your site will be excellent! :-)

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               bravewarriorposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

               I'm going to add a Bio page, a Work With Me Page, Testimonials, and do some reordering as well, Genna. It's nice that Authory can be used as more than simply a storehouse for our online work. I'll be sure to look for your Authory site soon. We both have a lot of work ahead of us, but it'll be worth it in the end!

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                  Genna Eastposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

                  I just published it on Authory.com.  (I have more to add, but it took a bit to familiarize myself with how this nice site functions. I like the format. :-)
                  
                  authory.com/GennaEastman

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                     bravewarriorposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

                     Genna, your Authory site is beautiful. I love the way you've set up the testimonial section. Absolutely brilliant!
                     
                     I'm still working on editing the HP articles that experienced a hiccup when Authory did a second import in an effort to eliminate the Hubpages logo from the top of my article. Still have loads to go through!
                     
                     That said, I love the way you've set up your site.

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                        Genna Eastposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

                        Thank you, Shauna.  I love the way your site looks as well!  Nicely done.  (Mike wrote the dedication/forward for my Collected Works edition so I thought I'd include it in the testimonials page.) 
                        
                        If you ask the Support Team to delete the HP logos, I believe they can do this for you. 
                        
                        I'm still working on the pdf transfers for original content transfers other than HP, which is the last writing tutorial I have to review.  This is more work, but worth it! :-) I like the various Authory site features and flexibility they provide as well. They open up other possibilities for us.

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                           bravewarriorposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

                           Genna, I did and they did. But when that happened, a bunch of gobbledy-goop showed up wherever I had quotation marks, em dashes, and apostrophes. As a result, I'm having to go thru each article and correct that, in addition to re-adding captions and attributions to many of my photos. It's quite laborious, but I've opted to do this now rather than wait the few weeks Eric at Authory.com says is may take to correct the glitch in the import. He says it's because HP is aggressively blocking outside importation of article on the HP sites. I don't want to wait weeks so I've taken on the project of pretty-ing up my articles myself. He did, however, extend my free trial until the end of January so I can get my project completed. What a guy! :-)

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            Ken Burgessposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

            Authory looks interesting, has some features that look worth exploring.
            
            You have the option to go free... with a limit of ten articles I believe I read... after a trial period... it might be worth it if the tools it provides are as good as they sound, to pay... either way it is worth a try.
            
            Hubpages was something special a half-dozen years ago... its features were perfect for those inclined to be persistent, that didn't want a bunch of hoops and hogwash to run thru for publishing and getting paid.
            
            It was sold off like a company to Gordon Gecko who is now piecemealing it for what it is worth... unfortunately there is nothing out there that exactly fills the void. 
            
            X appears to much of a mess, tho its offering ability to publish on there now... for a price... if you can establish a following on X that might work... or perhaps Blue Sky offers something along those lines?

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               bravewarriorposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

               Ken, Authory has great features. The problem is with HP, not Authory. HP is blocking their attempt to import articles while eliminating the big HubPages that wants to appear at the top of our articles. I'm glad I signed up for Authory despite the fact that it'll take me a couple of weeks to remove the junk from my articles caused by HP's aggressive blocking tactics. I paid for a year's subscription. The Authory team is very responsive. I just have to be patient during my massive editing process.

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   jansharesposted 4 weeks ago

   Lord. Nothing's updated. SMH

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      Robert Sacchiposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

      Not the hit count but they are updating the earnings.  I signed up with Medium.  I prefer HubPages.  Too bad HubPages is shutting down.  It was a fun run.

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    Genna Eastposted 4 weeks ago

    Shauna is right, Ken.  And Authory's support staff is excellent and quite helpful.

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    Genna Eastposted 3 weeks ago

    Yes, Eric is very helpful.

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    Jodahposted 3 weeks ago

    I can’t manually import any of the remaining articles on Discover to Authory, but I can those that are just on HubPages.

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       bravewarriorposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

       John, have you tried doing so through your article archives on Authory? There's a button at the bottom that allows you to import using a specific URL for the article(s).

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          Jodahposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

          Yes, I tried, but it came up with Discover.HubPages already imported or something to that effect.

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             Jodahposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

             I have been using the URL method for the HubPages ones.

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             bravewarriorposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

             Bummer. Have you tried doing it one by one?

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                Robert Sacchiposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

                One by one is the way I did it.  Nerve wracking but it got the job done.

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                   bravewarriorposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

                   Have you moved your work to Authory.com, Robert? Patty Inglish, John Hansen, Genna East, and I have. Not sure if any other hubbers have followed suit, but I'm glad I made the move.

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                      Robert Sacchiposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

                      No, I'm migrating to Medium.  I paid for a year.  I would be surprised if I break even.  This is the first I'm learing of Authority.com.

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                         bravewarriorposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

                         Robert, here's the link for Authory.com. It's basically a portfolio site but it has other features as well. There are no earnings involved unless you set your site up as a magnet for potential customers to hire you as a freelance writer.
                         https://authory.com/

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                            Genna Eastposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

                            Exactly, Shauna. Authory is a nice site that has Newsletters and other features as well.  (Readers can contact the author and subscribe to them for free.)  I will be joining Medium in February but will continue to use the attractive Authory platform in the interim. 
                            
                            All of what was left of my HP content after my deletions (only 23 publications, which are now down to 10 as I continue to remove them) were on Discover, and Authory copied all 23 of them over to their site with no problem.
                            
                            If you delete content from HP firsthand, you can then easily copy the content to Authory in pdf and other formats, and add yourself as the source without any reference to HP.
                            
                            Our HP Profile point score drops as well as we delete content.  (Mine has plummeted down to the 70's.)

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                               bravewarriorposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

                               I haven't deleted anything and probably won't. At least not yet; I have other fish to fry.

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                Jodahposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

                Yes, I tried that. It wouldn’t let me.

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    Venkatachari Mposted 3 weeks ago

    I think whatever article is on Discover is already present in the statistics page of your account. You can import all of them from your statistics page (links).

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