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Why should your users be unable to pay you to back up their data just because you failed at business and now have to stop your service? That's the epitome of p

Why should your users be unable to pay you to back up their data just because you failed at business and now have to stop your service? That's the epitome of petty spite.

j4kp07 12y ago
Because he's not in the data recovery business. And who are you to tell him how to run his life and his career path? What moron has been using their service for years and for free without a contingency plan? What idiot/geek/nerd in today's world doesn't keep triplicate backups of important data? Hell, I keep encrypted backups at home AND in the cloud/offsite. Just because you failed at LIFE and protecting your assets does not mean the next person is being petty or owes you a favor.
- eropple 12y ago
  > And who are you to tell him how to run his life and his career path? A member of the public who, collectively, trusted him with an irreplaceable part of the historical record. You take on that responsibility in the pursuit of profit, you don't get to discharge it when it goes under. I've never uploaded anything to Twitpic. But parts of our history are there, and that's important. Blowing off fine folks like Archive Team/dcurtis/toomuchtodo when they're not even asking you to pay for the retrieval of those historical archives is simply antisocial.
  - justin66 12y ago
    > You take on that responsibility in the pursuit of profit, you don't get to discharge it when it goes under. You're misusing the word "discharge." You actually want him to discharge his responsibility in this case.
    - eropple 12y ago
      Sorry, good call. Abrogate.
- ObviousScience 12y ago
  I didn't have any data with Twitpic, I just think his attitude shows a clear lack of good business sense, and I'm here for the public spectacle. That being said, I'll publicly call out displays of bad behavior when they happen in public - and throwing away your customer's data out of spite when they offer to pay for it to be backed up is bad business and incredibly petty behavior.
  - paulhauggis 12y ago
    I see good business sense here. the company is going under and they are most likely out of cash. They don't want to go into debt/get stuck with a huge bill. Justin.tv did the same thing. They closed up shop in pretty much 24 hours. A business isn't a charity to make you feel good. Sometimes you need to make tough decisions like this. They provided a free service for many years. Be happy that someone put the time and effort into giving you that. I also don't know why some people decide to use it as a backup service, because clearly it isn't. ..and the guy trying to archive all of the customer data? Why would any business hand over all of their Dara like that? It's a lawsuit waiting to happen. This is the problem with demanding everything is free/cheap: the service doesn't last.
    - DanBC 12y ago
      > the company is going under and they are most likely out of cash. They don't want to go into debt/get stuck with a huge bill. Two separate people have offered to cover the bandwidth and other costs of transferring the files to some other place.
      - eropple 12y ago
        Three. https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/523509876560257025 https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/523509876560257025
      - paulhauggis 12y ago
        This is meaningless. I wouldn't just transfer pictures and customer data to the highest bidder either. Do I need to keep mentioning Justin.tv? It seems nobody listened to me in the first place (or use conveniently ignored the facts). It's obvious most people here have never run a business and wouldn't make the right decision.

Why should your users be unable to pay you to back up their data just because you failed at business and now have to stop your service? That's the epitome of petty spite.

j4kp07 12y ago

Because he's not in the data recovery business. And who are you to tell him how to run his life and his career path? What moron has been using their service for years and for free without a contingency plan? What idiot/geek/nerd in today's world doesn't keep triplicate backups of important data? Hell, I keep encrypted backups at home AND in the cloud/offsite. Just because you failed at LIFE and protecting your assets does not mean the next person is being petty or owes you a favor.

eropple 12y ago
> And who are you to tell him how to run his life and his career path? A member of the public who, collectively, trusted him with an irreplaceable part of the historical record. You take on that responsibility in the pursuit of profit, you don't get to discharge it when it goes under. I've never uploaded anything to Twitpic. But parts of our history are there, and that's important. Blowing off fine folks like Archive Team/dcurtis/toomuchtodo when they're not even asking you to pay for the retrieval of those historical archives is simply antisocial.
- justin66 12y ago
  > You take on that responsibility in the pursuit of profit, you don't get to discharge it when it goes under. You're misusing the word "discharge." You actually want him to discharge his responsibility in this case.
  - eropple 12y ago
    Sorry, good call. Abrogate.
ObviousScience 12y ago
I didn't have any data with Twitpic, I just think his attitude shows a clear lack of good business sense, and I'm here for the public spectacle. That being said, I'll publicly call out displays of bad behavior when they happen in public - and throwing away your customer's data out of spite when they offer to pay for it to be backed up is bad business and incredibly petty behavior.
- paulhauggis 12y ago
  I see good business sense here. the company is going under and they are most likely out of cash. They don't want to go into debt/get stuck with a huge bill. Justin.tv did the same thing. They closed up shop in pretty much 24 hours. A business isn't a charity to make you feel good. Sometimes you need to make tough decisions like this. They provided a free service for many years. Be happy that someone put the time and effort into giving you that. I also don't know why some people decide to use it as a backup service, because clearly it isn't. ..and the guy trying to archive all of the customer data? Why would any business hand over all of their Dara like that? It's a lawsuit waiting to happen. This is the problem with demanding everything is free/cheap: the service doesn't last.
  - DanBC 12y ago
    > the company is going under and they are most likely out of cash. They don't want to go into debt/get stuck with a huge bill. Two separate people have offered to cover the bandwidth and other costs of transferring the files to some other place.
    - eropple 12y ago
      Three. https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/523509876560257025 https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/523509876560257025
    - paulhauggis 12y ago
      This is meaningless. I wouldn't just transfer pictures and customer data to the highest bidder either. Do I need to keep mentioning Justin.tv? It seems nobody listened to me in the first place (or use conveniently ignored the facts). It's obvious most people here have never run a business and wouldn't make the right decision.