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Blip was already going downhill for a long time, but this is the final nail in the coffin. By deleting without the option of recovery (so that content producers

Blip was already going downhill for a long time, but this is the final nail in the coffin. By deleting without the option of recovery (so that content producers can't retrieve and re-host elsewhere), they have demonstrated firmly in my mind that they cannot be trusted with content, and the broader community should be aware of this.

jsdalton 13y ago
That's really sucky, but I'm surprised that they didn't give the opportunity to download the source content? We got the exact same notice but were given 30 days to download our videos. This is the relevant part of the email I received: We want to give you the opportunity to download your episodes if you don’t have them saved or backed up. We’re giving you a 30-day window to do this using the following page on the producer dashboard: http://blip.tv/dashboard/get_video_download_list http://blip.tv/dashboard/get_video_download_list
- ubernostrum 13y ago
  People I've talked to say that they didn't get any emails or such about it. Some content may have been saved due to someone fortuitously logging into their account and seeing a "You're about to expire" notice. But overall the way this was handled seems to be terrible, and not even close to how I'd go about trying to show off a company as a place to bring content to.
saidajigumi 13y ago
> [...] they cannot be trusted with content It's sad to see that this has not become a standard assumption. I knew people over a decade ago who lost awesome websites they created/curated because their hosting provider had a data loss event and no relevant backups. It makes no more sense to trust a hosting service as the sole repository of critical data than a single hard drive. Consider the rule of thumb that important data should have three physically separate copies to significantly reduce the risk of data loss. (E.g. RAID does not count.) As Blip illustrates, organizations have many non-technical SPOFs[1] even if we assume (chuckle) they have taken all possible measures against normal physical data loss. This means that individuals and even online communities need to practice methods to preserve important data under the assumption that all storage devices and/or providers will ultimately fail. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure

jsdalton 13y ago

That's really sucky, but I'm surprised that they didn't give the opportunity to download the source content? We got the exact same notice but were given 30 days to download our videos. This is the relevant part of the email I received: We want to give you the opportunity to download your episodes if you don’t have them saved or backed up. We’re giving you a 30-day window to do this using the following page on the producer dashboard: http://blip.tv/dashboard/get_video_download_list http://blip.tv/dashboard/get_video_download_list

ubernostrum 13y ago
People I've talked to say that they didn't get any emails or such about it. Some content may have been saved due to someone fortuitously logging into their account and seeing a "You're about to expire" notice. But overall the way this was handled seems to be terrible, and not even close to how I'd go about trying to show off a company as a place to bring content to.

saidajigumi 13y ago

> [...] they cannot be trusted with content It's sad to see that this has not become a standard assumption. I knew people over a decade ago who lost awesome websites they created/curated because their hosting provider had a data loss event and no relevant backups. It makes no more sense to trust a hosting service as the sole repository of critical data than a single hard drive. Consider the rule of thumb that important data should have three physically separate copies to significantly reduce the risk of data loss. (E.g. RAID does not count.) As Blip illustrates, organizations have many non-technical SPOFs[1] even if we assume (chuckle) they have taken all possible measures against normal physical data loss. This means that individuals and even online communities need to practice methods to preserve important data under the assumption that all storage devices and/or providers will ultimately fail. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure