It sucks but it also seems no worse than 100 other startups that close up shop every month, or big company cloud services that get disscontinued. The user data

It sucks but it also seems no worse than 100 other startups that close up shop every month, or big company cloud services that get disscontinued. The user data in this case just happened to be stored on little plastic discs rather than AWS. At least it sounds like everyone had a local copy of their bits.