I set up a daily backup with Ubuntu One just yesterday. Oh well. A USB pendrive should do the trick.
Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
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Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
#12"we continue to believe in the Ubuntu One file services, the quality of the code, and the user experience, so will release the code as open source software to give others an opportunity to build on this code to create an open source file syncing platform"
"We will calculate the refund amount from today’s announcement, even though the service will remain available until 1 June and data available for a further two months."
Very respectable.
Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
#13"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…
A comp sci prof of mine uses it to synchronize notes and sample files for his lectures. I doubt he'll have trouble replacing it.
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#14"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 rely on it heavily. I have my home folder backed up and synced across machines on Ubuntu One. But I am using the free tier < 5GB. I will have to move on to other alternatives.
I guess it wouldn't have been sustainable for them, seeing as others are giving a lot more in free tier. So they would have had only a handful of paying customers.
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#15Oh no, Ubuntu is shutting down a service despite "our users rely so heavily on the functionality"... clearly this means we must never trust Ubuntu again!
At least that's what people on HN say every time other companies launch something new.
Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
#16"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…
> 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.
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#17That 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…
Not to mention someone though it would be "User Friendly" to pop up a notification every time a file finished syncing
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#18That's about as classy a product shutdown as you could wish for.
Pity this didn't work out financially for Canonical, and too bad for those users that came to rely on it (but this is the issue with pretty much any service that you don't operate yourself).
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#19I 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.)
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#20This is so bad, I deployed my sites using Ubuntu One.
However I'm very grateful they decided to opensource it, at least I have a hope to keep implementing it.