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Anyone else feel like a month of warning before permanently deleting your data is cutting it a bit close?
by beggi 13y ago
Anyone else feel like a month of warning before permanently deleting your data is cutting it a bit close?
- Afforess 13y agoObligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1150/ http://xkcd.com/1150/
- Dylan16807 13y agoThat XKCD assumes the person actually got the message, in which case a month is fine. Sending an email doesn't cut it on this short of a timeline. The really weird thing is they had seven months to tell people about this deadline, and waited until six of them had passed.
- cookiecaper 13y agoWhy do you assume the decision was made upon acquisition? Things change.
- kalleboo 13y agoEveryone who follows tech startups saw this one coming. This was a clear acquihire. My company was in the process of acquihiring. We knew from a mile away that they didn't give a crap about continuing the development our product, despite all their promises. We ended up declining (none of us wanted to move to the bay area).
- Dylan16807 13y agoOh they might have procrastinated but the decision should have been made around that time. It's not an excuse to say you wasted so much time deciding how to shut down the service that people need to get out out now now now.
- devcpp 13y agoYou give them one more user, which is worth a lot when a software company negociates its value before a buyout.
- hga 13y agoIn the summer, when plenty of people are on vacation, plenty without great or any Internet access.... Yeah, that occurred to me as well. Each time such a service shuts down it puts another nail into this "put your stuff in the cloud" business model, as the absolute number of people who'd been screwed keeps growing, along with the people they influence.
- jmathai 13y agoDisclaimer: Founder of Trovebox / OpenPhoto I still believe there's a lot of promise in "the cloud". It's unfortunate that these types of shut downs leave such a bad taste in people's mouths. There is a way to do it though. Decoupling application logic from data storage basically solves this problem. If we (Trovebox) ever has to send an email like this it would be along the lines of "Our service is shutting down but your photos are safe where they are, you don't have to do anything. If you want to continue using the service here are the ways to do it on your own."
- yesplorer 13y agoI wanted to tell you this the last time you submitted to HN, but don't you feel the photo of the child on your homepage portrays a cold, zombie-esque feeling? I don't know if it's deliberate but it hardly made me felt welcomed
- hga 13y agoHow can that work and still provide unified billing while you're in operation. E.g. let's say the photos are stored in S3, would they either have to pay bills to both Amazon and you, or switch to a smaller bill from Amazon upon your demise? The other problem is of course that very few of these companies do that sort of thing as far as I know (which I wouldn't, particularly, seeing as I only use rsync.net for off-site safety (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Joplin_tornado http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Joplin_tornado) and otherwise use local disk plus LTO tape with a full backup always in a safe deposit box).
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- peterkelly 13y agoHence why you should only use these type of services for backups (or also syncing), not as a primary storage mechanism. Or, from the opposite perspective, my hard drive is a backup for my Dropbox account.