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Fotopedia Is Shutting Down; Data Avallable Until August 10
New submitter Randall Booth writes Fotopedia has sent notice to its users that it is shutting down. 'We are sorry to announce that Fotopedia is shutting down. As of August 10, 2014, Fotopedia.com will close and our iOS applications will cease to function. Our community of passionate photographers, curators and storytellers has made this a wonderful journey, and we'd like to thank you for your hard work and your contributions. We truly believe in the concept of storytelling but don't think there is a suitable business in it yet. If you submitted photos and stories to Fotopedia, your data will be available to download until August 10, 2014. After this date, all photos and data will be permanently deleted from our servers."
... where your data disappears and your apps stop working the moment the company goes under.
Post-PC era my ass.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Facebook, Twitter and Google weren't interested in buying us out and making us rich beyond all reason, so fuck it all.
Raise your hand if you never heard of it. There's just too many people that want to do this kind of thing. I don't think it would have helped them, but the site design sucks too. 1. Metro-like on the front page, always a bad sign. 2. Read the article on Zanskar, which is interesting except that the borderless wall of photos that fill the window is too hard to scroll through on my machine... It jerk, Jerk, JERKS and I have to play finger games to maybe get it to line up right. Don't make it hard on your users like that.
I suppose it all looks great on an iPad, but really... writing code that accomodates different (and not nearly as uncommon as you think) browsers really shouldn't be that hard.
Of course none of that would have saved them because like I said, there's too much of this stuff already.
I look forward to more $unknown_site is shutting down articles on /. in the future.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Oh no, Fotopedia is shutting down. First, the mandatory "Who the hell is Fotopedia?"
But then the translation: Hype-speak "We truly believe in the concept of storytelling but don't think there is a suitable business in it yet." translates to "Apple or Google or anyone else with more money than sense failed to offer us billions of $$$ for our little toy, so anyone who backed us with their IP can't play with us any more."
As to the quickness of a ten day window, I don't think that is a real issue. Anyone foolish enough to not have retained copies of their images that they store with Fotopedia may lose them, but they gain an important life lesson in return.
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And that makes it less likely that this will happen,
*cough* mega.com *cough*
I'm not a complete idiot... Some parts are missing.
Hosting isn't free. Bandwidth isn't free.
Sure, the hard drives could be left sitting on a shelf for 50 years, but won't do anyone any good.
So it appears that the new IT bubble (or internet bubble 2.0) is starting to show signs that it is about to burst. It always starts with companies like this one, since they normally run out of money first. This collapse is going to be interesting.
Yeah, but either could just sell that part of their business, or even just decide it wasn't worth the effort and shut it down without warning
Not really. MS is entirely "cloud first" under the new CEO, and Amazon's investors are really intent on AWS as the cool part of Amazon. Next decade the world could change, of course, but for now those clouds are the jewels of 2 profoundly successful companies. Google, OTOH, I don't trust one bit these days.
I see "the cloud" as the best possible backup - I can't envision a disaster that would take out both my place and that distant data center, without being the nuclear-war sort of event that would make data backups the least of my worries.
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