How I Learned That Backing Up Your Work is a Good Idea
Unfortunately for me, I found out the hard way…
Working on a website that has its own story builder is a wonderful quality-of-life feature. The fact I can log in to Medium at any time on any device that supports it and read, edit and publish my drafts is a feature that I am incredibly grateful for.
However, I recently learned the hard way that this cannot be taken for granted.
A platform that I have been writing on for almost three years, much like Medium, features a studio that gives writers all kinds of different formatting options, such as adding text, images, videos, embedding Tweets and more.
This website announced the other day that it would be closing down, and I was absolutely devastated. I posted frequently to this automotive news/social media hybrid and had built up a good following. I wrote over 260 articles and generated just under 4 million views, and all of a sudden they decide to close their doors.
After the shock of the shut down had sunk in, I immediately started to panic when I realised that the hours and hours of work I produced to…
