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Storify End-of-Life
- benrmatthews 9y agoThink Twitter Moments was the beginning of the end for Storify - testament to how well Moments has worked for Twitter, despite its early critics.
- zschuessler 9y agoI'm not sure what Storify is/was. I attempted to find out by clicking the "About" link in their footer, and got redirected to Adobe. Looks like maybe they got a buyout!
- turbinemonkey 9y agoStorify was acquired by Livefyre ~4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6354835 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6354835 Livefyre was acquired by Adobe last year. Whatever the route they've taken, the upshot is a helluva lot of content going poof (per usual).
- username223 9y agoAt least they seem not to have blocked the Internet Archive bot, so some history may have been preserved: http://archive.is/storify.com http://archive.is/storify.com
- efwerf333 9y agoSo what's the end-game here? Future society needs to schlep a history of current societies banal social media content along with? This feels religious; Oh, just upload it all to digital Heaven! I'll never "die" and people can continue to revere me and my cats forever! Just because we can doesn't mean we should care about preserving every bit and byte. Especially since the computing infra for that has real environmental costs.
- Xeoncross 9y agoWhile everyone would agree with this, everyone doesn't agree with what should be thrown away. Burning books because they aren't "valuable" is dangerous ground. Safer to store everything.
- jhoechtl 9y agoThis is a totally wrong analogy. Books were burnt for religios/political reasons. Storify is giving up because of lack of financial instreams for the owners.
- johnchristopher 9y agoParent's comment is about the internet archive, not storify.
- Chaebixi 9y agoTons of valuable books and records have been burnt because someone thought they weren't valuable or didn't have the money to house them. It's true, it's more likely they were just thrown on a trash heap and left to rot, but trash incineration is a thing.
- greglindahl 9y agoLibraries "weed" books all the time, and most of them are pulped. Which is about like burning them, only the carbon doesn't end up in the atmosphere. So this is probably not the best comparison.
- jwilk 9y agoStorify is a social network service that lets the user create stories or timelines using social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storify https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storify
- smelendez 9y agoIt was a tool for putting together decent looking, embeddable lists of social media posts. As far as I know, mostly news sites used it to capture online opinion about a topic without having a big number of separate embedded tweets, Instagram posts, etc.
- Chaebixi 9y ago> As far as I know, mostly news sites used it to capture online opinion about a topic without having a big number of separate embedded tweets, Instagram posts, etc. So, will a lot of these stories break (unless a lot of effort is taken to save them by exporting the storify content)? > After May 16, 2018, Storify.com accounts and their content will no longer be accessible
- jjawssd 9y agoMandatory: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
- sushid 9y agoIt's a no nonsense page with simple account related questions and answers. No incredible journey bs on there at all.
- dang 9y agoPlease don't do stock comments here, especially when their best-before date was so long ago.
- jjawssd 9y agoPlease delete my comment
- Apocryphon 9y agoIt's a lazy comment, but that blog is the closest thing we have to a modern day Fucked Company site.
- teraflop 9y agoThis is going to cause an awful lot of dead links. I don't suppose anyone has a plan to archive the content?
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoThis is pretty well executed. Straightforward presentation of the impact and plan, ample time to deal with it, and no BS.
- wordpressdev 9y agoStorify was a good product, used it in the early days. Shame to see it going down.
- distilpost 9y agoDistilpost, my own startup is a more than adequate alternative. It is all machine curated at the moment and super accurate. Beats twitter moments easily. https://distilpost.com/ https://distilpost.com/
- spraak 9y agoI think you could have been a bit more tactful there.
- primeblue 9y agoGrow up
- distilpost 9y agoPardon me if i am unfamiliar with the ways of the community but the down votes are simply far removed from what i expected as i only sougth to offer those deeply affected a possible alternative and something to cheer for.
- brokentone 9y agoYour comment is pretty unashamedly self-serving and not entirely on topic. Storify was curated, yours intentionally doesn't overlap on the heart of this product.
- jessriedel 9y agoI don't think there's anything wrong with unashamedly self-serving. All plugs by developers are self-serving, and trying to enforce the veneer of modesty will just cause people to be more subtle and tricky. Better to allow so long as the interest is disclosed (which he did). So really, the only possible reason to down vote is being off topic (which could definitely apply to this case).
- ricardobeat 9y agoTwitter just released 'native' threads an hour ago: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/nicethreads.html https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/...
- Domenic_S 9y ago.
- slezakattack 9y agoI understand the rationale behind your comment but I think it expresses a form of emotion when including something like "unfortunately" to an already negative statement. It feels like an expression of regret. Personally, saying something like "unfortunately, my grandmother passed away this year" instead of just saying "my grandmother passed away" feels a bit more emotional.
- mlevental 9y agoit's a common colloquialism that means "I'm sad that ..."
- mbid 9y agoWebsite is essentially plain html with firefox tracking protection. Nice.
- tokyokawasemi 9y agoStorify was pretty useful as a curation tool, and I remember using it to sort through the information/disinformation around the Japan quake (https://storify.com/boheekim/collaborating-to-storify-japan https://storify.com/boheekim/collaborating-to-storify-japan) back in 2011. There is a definite need for an embeddable/centralized stream of updates during times of disaster or crisis. Folks often whip up a collaborative Google Doc on the fly, but a lighter weight mobile friendly solution would be awesome.
- jedc 9y agoIf you want a laugh, check out what I think is the funniest Storify story ever - https://storify.com/ahchrissawyer/the-peanut-factory-sex-burglars https://storify.com/ahchrissawyer/the-peanut-factory-sex-bur... (The Peanut Factory Sex Burglars)