Dear Yahoo Small Business:

I would like to establish a dialogue to try to convince you not to disable Sitebuilder after March 31. I have been using Sitebuilder for 16 years. I began on geocities! I have spent thousands of hours carefully constructing my website www.newbyz.org. on Sitebuilder. I am now 70 years old and I do not wish to use your "modern" web building services.

My website is basically a lot of lists of links that are connected toe PDF files I have created. I have created thousands of intricate musical scores, all of which I own the copyright. These scores have taken huge chunks of my life to create. I began my website because there was a need for these scores at Orthodox Christian Churches around the world. I have received hundreds of thousands of page views and downloads. I do not make any money on my site. All of my work is offered free. I do not need to advertise or market my site. People all over the world have found it through Google searches.

My site is a straight HTML construction. It works fine on mobile devices, even small phones, which can be turned to landscape position to get a better view. The tools you offer now would force me to reconstruct a new site that would take months of continuous work. I don't know how to code, and I have the need to create my site from scratch the way I want it. I cannot afford an outside firm to make it for me. They would not understand the subtleties of my clientele.

Sitebuilder is the best WYSIWYG HTML editor I have ever seen. It is a brilliant bit of coding, even if it is dated. If you disable it, I would be forced to use another stand alone Windows program to work on my webpages and upload them to the site. I've already started to learn KompoZer just in case I cannot convince you not to abandon Sitebuilder. But KompZer has a learning code, and in my opinion, is not as good as Sitebuilder.

Why are you disabling it anyway? What would it cost you to just allow it to keep uploading pages? You don't have to update it. You don't even have to supported it. Customer care for Sitebuilder could be referred to user communities and forums. You can tell your clientele you are no longer updating it or supporting it, but it will continue to work for people who are familiar with it and want to keep using it.

Please let me know how I can engage your decision makers in an email dialogue. My email address is [email protected]
or you could send me a link to have some kind of back and forth with you. I want to do all I can to try to convince you that keeping Sitebuilder working would make sense, even without customer support.

Sincerely,

Stanley J. Takis