Bye Bye UbuntuOne.
You should have been OwnCloud, not a Dropbox wannabe.
Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
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Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
#22That always seemed to me a bandwagon feature, like Microsoft's SkyDrive: they saw DropBox succeeding, they figured it would be easy to emulate, and they learned otherwise when they tried it. The only way this change affects me personally is that it gives me one less thing to go in and switch off when I install a new Ubuntu system, but I'm glad they've got a pragmatic attitude toward the possibility of spreading thems…
or you could always try Fedora at this point. Ubuntu has never worked out of the box like the latest Fedora, and doesn't come with all the bloatware
Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
#23I glad they did this finally. It was getting really annoying not being able to easily disable the thing in stock Ubuntu.
Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
#24Very awesome that they release the code.
I wish all companies would open source code they don't use anymore.
I mean it really doesn't cost anything pushing your old code in a github repo or something.
Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
#25I never liked their storage service. On top of that, all the videos files which I stored in their server got lost previously, so I never cared to use their service again. It just showed the filename of the video and displayed it's size as zero bytes. A quick google at that time showed me that other peoples had also lost their files and Ubuntu didn't even send a apology mail for that. (But text files was present.)
Are you 100% sure it was Canonical's fault? I've had issues with dropbox, google drive and sky drive at different points in the past and never received an apology letter from any of those companies either. A simple google search will show literally thousands of people having trouble with all sorts of Microsoft services. I sure hope they get apology letters.
Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Ok, so do users really rely so heavily on Ubuntu One? If so, then why do you shut it down? If no, then why do you say they rely on it? From the article: > Additionally, the free storage wars aren’t a sustainable place for us to be, particularly with other services now regularly offering 25GB-50GB free storage. In other words, they can't compete with Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive, Google Drive, and whatever flavor of the w…
If there are people who really use it heavily, then they should give them at least 6 months, I believe. Especially because without further development efforts, just maintaining the service can't be _that_ expensive.
Perhaps the logic is that if you don't use the data for a month and a half and your only copy of the data is in ubuntu one it must not be that important?
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#27"Today we are announcing plans to shut down the Ubuntu One file services. This is a tough decision, particularly when our users rely so heavily on the functionality that Ubuntu One provides" Ok, so do users really rely so heavily on Ubuntu One? If so, then why do you shut it down? If no, then why do you say they rely on it? I believe they don't rely on it. "The Ubuntu One file services will not be included in the upc…
I think today is the 2nd of April, so they are providing 2 months less a day to continue using the service as normal, and an additional 2 months (for a total of 4) for users to download their data (but presumably not upload new data.)
Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
#28It never worked well with me.
Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
#29That always seemed to me a bandwagon feature, like Microsoft's SkyDrive: they saw DropBox succeeding, they figured it would be easy to emulate, and they learned otherwise when they tried it. The only way this change affects me personally is that it gives me one less thing to go in and switch off when I install a new Ubuntu system, but I'm glad they've got a pragmatic attitude toward the possibility of spreading thems…
or you could always try Fedora at this point. Ubuntu has never worked out of the box like the latest Fedora, and doesn't come with all the bloatware
I would but I love APT. I'll just stick to Debian Testing.
Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
#30Did the timelines seem awfully aggressive to anyone? (June 1 service stops, July 31 all data is erased)
For a service that we were suppose to be syncing our lives to, that seems like a really abrupt, customer unfriendly ramp-down.
I would have expected something more like:
1. April 1 - no new accounts.
2. May 1 - can no longer add files to your existing account.
3. May - Dec - nagged/reminded constantly to pull your files down.
4. Dec 31 - All accounts closed, data "erased"
5. [BONUS] March '15 - Data actually erased to provide a few months of emergency
recovery for the few folks that didn't know and are emailing frantically that
their family photos are up there.