What happened to Wesleying?

The question of the year. If you're a fan, you may have checked our site for the last seven months or so and thought, "wtf happened to Wesleying?" Well, we're here to tell you everything that's been going on since our new site came up.

For new freshies or other Wes students who are just discovering us, check out our about page to learn a little more about the blog's history.

In January of 2024, we noticed that the site was down, and after a couple stressful weeks of troubleshooting, emails, and contacting customer support, we received the news that our site's data and content was permanently deleted with very little warning after a very unfortunate combination of billing and login miscommunication that the current editors were not aware of until it was too late. It was the worst case scenario for a small error, and, simply put, a really awful moment for Wesleying.

For alums and current students alike, the great news out of this bad situation is that the thousands of archives from Wesleying's past were not lost forever with our site being deleted. Almost everything has been saved on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, and if you type wesleying.org into their search bar you can find thousands of backups of the site dating all the way back to 2008. So, if you alums would even like to see what Wesleying looked like your freshman year of college, you can now do so there. We have efforts underway to create a more official and accessible site for the archives, and we will also be reposting some old articles on here in the weeks to come.

The golden era of Wesleying and blogs in general has come to a close, with the addition of a pandemic, new publications on campus, and a shift in Wesleyan culture having made an impact on Wesleying's readership and community as well. However, the light of this situation is that we now have an opportunity to rethink how Wesleying can best serve as an important community resource in a 2024 context.

Due to a very, very small team working on getting a new site up while balancing all the other tasks of life, it has taken us longer than expected to get to this point, which we are sorry for. But we're here now, and mightier than ever. Which is why we need YOUR HELP!! Do you have opinions about Wesleyan culture, funny campus phenomenons, or important things going on? Do you have other ideas for tiktoks, events, or content you would like to see shared here? Fill out this form if you'd like do be included on emails, write (or create!) for us, send your article ideas in, or just want to come for the immaculate vibes of Wesleying. I'm even gonna pull out Uncle Sam here:

Huge shoutout to Margaret '21, Zach '13, Evan '13, and other alums for their support, advice, and help during this shutdown. Couldn't have done it without you guys.

Reach out to us at wesleyingblog@gmail.com if you have any comments, questions, concerns. We're happy to back, and we certainly missed you.