I first discovered it while blog-surfing (cyberstalking really) a software-head friend's girlfriend, seated at my desk at my room in the Cats (Catalina apartments) in grad school. I really liked 43things. It was a fabulous Web2.0 social application.
The founders/creators of 43Things also created a lively site called 43places, and there was also 43people, allconsuming, then I stopped noticing their new sites.
I used 43places to organize my dreams of travel. You could write entries on places you'd been, but front-and-center was a list of where you'd like to visit. It featured flexible, intelligent programming using RubyonRails tech, such that you could list a country or continent, or a site or town; it didn't restrict you to one level, while it unobtrusively tracked the relationships between those places e.g. it was cool that I could indicate India, and separately the Taj Mahal, and do photos and 'social' relating to each in a way that felt natural.
I liked to keep my front-page list very short; my last 43things profile had only five items on it. Meanwhile, over the years, I learned from others how to simplify, unclutter, have fun, crush on my crushes, like my likes and choose my choices :) For most of my years with 43, I really meant to get the PhD, but that's not yet done, and who knows if ever. When I finally publish my first novel, I won't be able to share that milestone with my cyberfriend the robot and my anonymous 43things friends. Still, it's amazing how much one little site helped me along the way. Thanks, kids of the robot co-op. Thanks, 43 community. One love.
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Here is an answer to my call for an alternative: bucketlist.org -> they followed me on twitter, so I noticed and followed and am now going to try the service.
Exciting!
A lot of people moved to popclogs.com. :)
Thank you, hopena. It looks great. Bucketlist or popclogs?
I will try popclogs at some point. Bucketlist so far is 1. nice but 2. mildly irritating. It has this achievement orientation that I don't remember 43things bothering users with. E.g. When you add a goal, it asks for an (optional) target date while reminding that "Goal without target date is a dream" - well, first, insert the "a" thank you. Second, so bleeding what if it's a dream?
Then they send me tips on prioritizing, on marking off the goals, succeeding...just shut up and let me play.
It took a bit of a workaround for me to get on without having my full name attached to the page. Obviously, I would rather an anonymous or semi-anonymous goals site, but I can see their business reasons for needing my true name.
Anyway, those are some early observations from bucketlist. It seems to be a very good site, just not a laid-back site.
it's like they took this living, breathing organic heart that was 43things, mechanically separated it, and shoved it into this left-brained, mechanical, cold, dead, artificial thing called popclogs... there's no sense of community on popclogs... it just sucks. i loved scrolling down and being able to read everyone's work of art... from everyone's heart... on the same page... now everything is insulated and separated.
I only realised today that 43 Things has shut down! :( I wanted to check out my old goals - I haven't visited for more than two years and just wanted to visit an old friend - 43Things. At one stage I was very active... I feel a bit sad.
Hey, I've created an achievement site like Pop Clogs, 43 Things and Bucketlist. I'd love to hear about your experience with 43 Things, so that I can improve my own site. Also, do you know why 43 Things closed?
I'll check back here eventually for your response, but if you'd like to contact me more directly, you can do so at taqfu@doitproveit.com
Hope to hear from you!
I also only found out recently that 43things had closed down. I wish I would have known it was closing. Did I miss an email? Everything I wrote is gone. Every list, every comment. Into the ether. I feel like I had a special goal-planning journal and when I went back to look at it, I discovered it had used it for kindling.
Is there any way at all former users can get that content? Cached? Stored in some massive webpage library somewhere? Has everything been deleted? Any suggestions?
I just went to 43things.com for the first time in I don't even know how long. It is coming back!!! (from wherever it has been) I'm excited and will try it again. It was fun. I made a couple of friends, achieved some Things, dropped others. It would be interesting to see what my things were in the past and compare to the new things I have in mind now. I guess I won't have the chance to find out. But hey, I'm happy its coming soon
oh wow, comments! oh my.
hugs, everyone.
I think its off-line again since mid-2018.
:(
I just noticed a site called dayzeroproject.com and it seems to be a 43things replacement, although I'm too sad to try it yet.
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