Blog archive February 2026
26.02.26 / 01 / vimeo deletion
I just deleted my Vimeo account. I meant to do it last year but the subs auto-renewed while I was distracted by my mother's final illness.
Back in 2008 Vimeo was the best solution for remote storage and showing your videos to the world. Youtube still had various limitations that I bumped against. Vimeo looked more professional, no ads, nice controls and reliable embed on your sites. But of course it changed direction towards a higher-priced business-oriented platform. I continued through on a legacy package but I really wasn't using it intensively or ambitiously enough. And nowadays hosting comes with huge amounts of storage, the HTML5 video tag handles everything sweetly, and even a phone can handle pages with several vids in. So I moved them into my sites - did smallfire.org and Grace a while back, just fixed my blog now. Also upgraded some early videos and added a few that were only on Vimeo, or even not published at all.
Now I have the tedious task of removing Vimeo from the site menu. Every page.
