Google gives up on JotSpot's servers, but not all customers: Google ostensibly bought JotSpot for its advanced, easy-to-use, template-based wiki hosting. Apparently, the uniqueness of JotSpot was too much for the company, which is offering free migration of most sites into Google Sites--with reduced functionality, of course. No scripts, forms, plug-ins, or page-specific permission. Just...fabulous.
JotSpot's servers will be shut down on 15-January-2009. Migrate before then.
Google has a migration form, but notes that you have to create a Google Sites site first that's empty, and then migrate your JotSpot wiki into it. But Google is also offering export options to preserve as much as one might to take a site elsewhere. Given that most wikis are highly particular, it's possible this is very little comfort. Still, I'll take it.
Those who devoted time and effort to building JotSpot Family Site or Class Reunion Site pages are simply out of luck. There's no migration option and little suggestion about any help.
JotSpot abandoning these two categories entirely just shows how risky it can be to use tools that are site-specific: so much metadata, so much uploading, so much content creation is simply lost when companies lose interest or shrink their businesses.
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