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Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by joycey »

hnha wrote: post #54

Two weeks notice before a service that was meant to help "privately remember your memorable days" deleted all of those memories? Time to find out who runs this and never trust them with anything again. Two weeks is laughably short and disrespectful to your users. If at least they were open about the issue that forces them to shutdown, maybe users would be able to help out by donating to keep it online for longer? Shi…

If it was two weeks notice of actually shutting down the service that's alright, but deleting all past entries in two weeks is way too short.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by th »

lancer wrote: post #40

For everyone who enjoys journaling via email, you may find DailyDiary a suitable alternative. A comparable question might be: https://www.dailydiary.com/questions/342540/how-did-your-day... Disclosure: I'm the founder. If there’s interest, I’m happy to add an import for OhLife exports.

I would also like an Ohlife import service (or any other API that could be used for importing).

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by ddd2 »

lancer wrote: post #40

For everyone who enjoys journaling via email, you may find DailyDiary a suitable alternative. A comparable question might be: https://www.dailydiary.com/questions/342540/how-did-your-day... Disclosure: I'm the founder. If there’s interest, I’m happy to add an import for OhLife exports.

Just signed up, looks good. I'd definitely be interested in an import for Ohlife

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#64

Post by shadytrees »

hnha wrote: post #54

Two weeks notice before a service that was meant to help "privately remember your memorable days" deleted all of those memories? Time to find out who runs this and never trust them with anything again. Two weeks is laughably short and disrespectful to your users. If at least they were open about the issue that forces them to shutdown, maybe users would be able to help out by donating to keep it online for longer? Shi…

I daresay most people have all their messages saved in their Sent folder.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#65

Post by MichaelApproved »

hnha wrote: post #54

Two weeks notice before a service that was meant to help "privately remember your memorable days" deleted all of those memories? Time to find out who runs this and never trust them with anything again. Two weeks is laughably short and disrespectful to your users. If at least they were open about the issue that forces them to shutdown, maybe users would be able to help out by donating to keep it online for longer? Shi…

What would you say is an appropriate amount of time?

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by Paul12345534 »

I wish the US govt. would sponsor something for citizens to store a bit about themselves and their family indefinitely. Even 20MB or 30MB per person, which seems modest and feasible, would allow people to pick a few of their most important photos and write a bit about their life for the next generations to find. I don't trust any private company to handle this well when you're talking about hundreds of years of future storage.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by voltagex_ »

MichaelApproved wrote: post #65
hnha wrote: post #54

Two weeks notice before a service that was meant to help "privately remember your memorable days" deleted all of those memories? Time to find out who runs this and never trust them with anything again. Two weeks is laughably short and disrespectful to your users. If at least they were open about the issue that forces them to shutdown, maybe users would be able to help out by donating to keep it online for longer? Shi…

What would you say is an appropriate amount of time?

Depends how much access you give the Archive Team. I'd say 6 months to a year, depending on userbase size.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by tn13 »

Paul12345534 wrote: post #67

I wish the US govt. would sponsor something for citizens to store a bit about themselves and their family indefinitely. Even 20MB or 30MB per person, which seems modest and feasible, would allow people to pick a few of their most important photos and write a bit about their life for the next generations to find. I don't trust any private company to handle this well when you're talking about hundreds of years of futur…

This is laughable. Government has not incentive to properly store this information and not allow it to be misused.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by ghuntley »

voltagex_ wrote: post #68
MichaelApproved wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would you say is an appropriate amount of time?

Depends how much access you give the Archive Team. I'd say 6 months to a year, depending on userbase size.

OhLife is private, ArchiveTeam archives public - whats your point? I'm pretty sure their customer base would feel pretty violated/enraged if private journals were uploaded to the Internet Archive.
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