Is it possible to transfer a blog to a new user?

WriteFreely Instance Admins
1

I’m self-hosting a multi-user instance, freely.modspil.dk.

Would it be possible to transfer on of my blogs to a different user? I can’t seem to find it in the user interface.

2

There’s no way to transfer a blog to another user in WriteFreely, but maybe that’s something we could allow. Out of curiosity, is there a particular reason you want to transfer blogs to another user, instead of e.g. creating a new blog on your account, or changing your username?

3

Hi,

thanks for getting back!

my specific use case is that I’ve been reposting a daily newsletter by another writer for some time, and he offered to update it himself when I’m off for some reason … and because of that I wanted to create a new user and transfer the blog to him to avoid sharing my (admin) password and account with him.

Now he seems to have found a new and better home for the newsletter and so it will soon be less relevant, but I imagine similar situations could arise for other people.

4

Another way to solve the same use case would be to have collaborative blogs, so other users on an instance could be added to an existing blog. I don’t know if that’s in the roadmap for WriteFreely, but I can see how it could be useful.

5

Yeah, sounds like collaborative blogs would fit best. This is exactly what we have planned, actually! We have it developed on Write.as right now, and have it planned for a near-future WriteFreely release. Originally we were only planning support for single-user instances (development task here), but it sounds like it’d fit well for multi-user instances, so this is great feedback.