{"id":214,"date":"2007-12-20T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/wordpress\/?p=214"},"modified":"2007-12-20T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T00:26:00","slug":"dear-activecom-you-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/dear-activecom-you-suck.html","title":{"rendered":"Dear Active.com &#8211; you suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.active.com\">Active.com &#8211; you are dead to me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a few years I have been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolrunning.com\">CoolRunning.com<\/a> as my exercise logger.  For the past few months I have seen notices that they would be migrating their data over to Active.com.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;transition&#8221; was this past weekend and boy did it go badly.  Much of the data did not transfer over.  Actually NONE of the data transferred over automatically and there was a process you could initiate to transfer your data over, but when I did that only about half the data came over.<\/p>\n<p>I was not alone either &#8211; the messageboards were flooded with coolrunning refugees talking about how Active.com had screwed them up.  In addition to the data migration problems, the logger didn&#8217;t have all the features that we were accustomed to at CR.  I mean, I know migrations and change can be a big deal, but this was ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the threads, someone posted how to get your data out of CoolRunning and there were various other sites proposed to accept us poor refugees.  I think I have settled on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runningahead.com\">RunningAhead.com<\/a> and I will let you know how it goes.  Maybe if you&#8217;re lucky I&#8217;ll update my blogger template to point to a link there instead of the old one that goes to CoolRunning \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Active.com &#8211; you are dead to me. For a few years I have been using CoolRunning.com as my exercise logger. For the past few months I have seen notices that they would be migrating their data over to Active.com. The &#8220;transition&#8221; was this past weekend and boy did it go badly. Much of the data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}