About a year ago Google announced it would sunset their old Page Creator platform in favor of Google Sites. This would have been better received if Sites were a better product, but it's been stuck on "the sick list" for years.
The migration was supposed to happen mid-2009, but our Minnesota Special Hockey site survived until this week.
So did Google use those six months to develop a brilliant migration tool coupled with extensions to Google Sites?
No. Of course not. The result of the migration is a train wreck.
For example, most of the attachment links are scrambled. I think some of our documents (attachments) may have been lost. A large collection seem to exist as "attachments" to the root directory -- but there's no mechanism to link to them.
Thanks Google. Merry Christmas to you too.
Update: When I first posted this I thought Google had merely messed up. The longer and deeper that I look into this the more the fiasco resembles staggering incompetence at a level rarely seen outside of high school and failing corporations. WTF is going on at Google?!
Update 1/6/10: Despite our support contract, Google never responded to an email inquiry. Most recently, I discovered that a bug in their update process deleted a significant page. Turns out that if you had an existing Sites page and a Page Creator page collection, the contents of an existing Site could be wiped out by the migration.
I think the same thing happened to the Wellesley College Alumnae Club of Boston website - the admin wrote on FB today that "Google ate it."
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