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The Cloud Fiasco of 2010: Drop.io
- eli 16y agoCurrent drop.io links work just fine. They just took away the ability to create new ones with a free account. The reason he's encountering dead links is because drop.io drops are specifically designed to expire. You pick an expiration date when you create a drop. It's a feature. The service was not meant for long-term storage or distribution. Using it this way was a mistake.
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoYou're aware that drop.io will discontinue service completely before the end of the year, right?
- revoltingx 16y agoSo? He's still technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
- eli 16y agoSure, but that has nothing to do with John pointing out how many dead bookmarks he has today. Drop.io was designed for temporary storage. My point is that all its links would have expired even if it was kept running.
- lzw 16y agoThis is Dvorak, of course, but still it seems wrong to me to buy a company just to get employees. If they made a viable business, then maybe it is worth integrating that business as a feature on facebook, or whatever. I can't fault the employees for getting a spectacular "signing bonus" but it really seems a shame to shut down services like this. When magazines go out of business, they sell their subscription lists to another magazine. So you get "sorry, Popular electronics is no longer publishing, but the rest of your subscription will be filled by Popular mechanics". Seems the least facebook could do.
- mceachen 16y agoDvorak is 12 years late to the "Cool URIs don't change" party: http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI Lesson: If you don't own the domain, you don't own the stability of those domain's URLs.
- jv22222 16y agoOne for Dvorak: http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=NcliuBE5MI http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=NcliuBE5MI
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoYour link doesn't work for me.
- jv22222 16y agoIt was an ironic quip, with the irony being that Hacker news is not honoring the link...