Zooomr is Currently Hiking
Hey everyone!
Sorry for the abrupt notice, as Zooomr is currently hiking to a new data center. Many of you have waited long for this day to arrive, and it seems like it was only yesterday when we first caught the public’s eye.
Expect to see Zooomr 2 launch in June, but just know that right now thousands of photos are hiking over the Internet to our new, much faster infrastructure in our new data center.
Please do not worry about your photos, as they are perfectly safe. Our photo storage server at static.zooomr.com will remain online with all of your photos in-case you are sharing them via your blog or website. The main site will be down for at least 24 hours as I work on cleaning-up all loose-ends.
I will be sure to share more information as it becomes available.
Thanks,
Kristopher Tate
May 16th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
THANK GOD
-Allison
May 16th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
I was also wondering what had happened. I suppose it was not my day. I had posted some pictures of my new black MacBook to Zooomr right before it went down. I then linked to my photos page via a blog and down went Zooomr. I’m glad to know that they are available from the static page and that all is well.
Regards,
Jon
May 16th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
Go for it!!!
May 17th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
Hi everybody.
i like this service very much and much better then Flickr or something comparable. just what really anoys me is the availability of your servers. Hope this is getting much better after the move and even better with zooomr 2. really looking forward to that.
and yea, please make another log-in mechanism available. sorry to say that but openID sucks.
So keep up the good work.
Markus
May 18th, 2006 at 9:53 am
So when is zooomr going to come back?
May 18th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
Disagree completely on OpenID. What are the specific reasons why it “sucks”.
OpenID’s main challenge is adoption. Once it is adopted by a wide variety of service providers, the benefits of a secure, single-sign-on will be great.
May 18th, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Dear Gareth,
Adoption, that’s where it starts gettin tricky. At the moment it is not widely adopted, and the documentation on the website is not very good. Making the adoption not easier. BTW, I am having a degree in computer science and still did’t 100% understand the docu. So at the moment it makes the log-on even more dificult and adds one more step to the process (specifying the myopenID). Maybe “it sucks” was a little to harsh for some inovative idea wich is still in its infancy. Sorry for that, had a bad day yesterday. I simply would be happy to see a second, “traditional” authentication mechanism for users coming from other services which do not “yet” support openID.
The guys and girls around openID would be well advised to add a little more end-user support to the website. Not beeing totaly stupid (at least I am conviced so), I had a hard time using it in the beginning and I didn’t find any help on their website. Basicaly I forgot to note down the whole URL. I always tried it with xxx.openID.com instead of xxx.myopenID.com, and couldn’t find it anywhere on the website. A better docu would raise the acceptance among users considerably and will make provider less reluctant to adopt it.
Hope somebody from openID will read this, as they didn’t reply to my mail
A wonderful day to all zooomers.
Cheers,
Markus
P.S.: When will be the servers back on again. I miss my most favourite webservice
May 18th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
me too - ive got so many photos to put up
May 18th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
I just use my meetro account because I like to have tobobo@tobobo.com be my login name. I wish it could have a cookie to remember me whenever I visit.
May 19th, 2006 at 7:25 am
Like, dude, give us an eta