Friday, November 16, 2012

7 Years later...Zooomr goes out with a fizzle.

After 3 years of not responding to user complaints, tech support issues, and hundreds of pleas for help, the folks at Zooomr have finally responded, by locking everyone out of the service and claiming that they are "re-releasing" Zooomr.  Problem is, all of the photos that have been posted to the site over the last 7 years are no longer there, nor are the user accounts.  I predict that this is the last we will see of Zooomr, it's an easy out for them at this time, to come back and say that "it didn't work out" and they are sorry.  It should come as no surprise I guess, the footer on Zooomr.com stated (in Japanese) that the site was no longer supported, no longer developed, and should be "used at your own risk".

To be honest, I'm not sure how anyone in their right mind would still be using the site given the history, the failures, and the lack of support from those running the site, maybe, just maybe, this is finally it?  Then again, maybe this really is what the Zoooomr team wants?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I am so pissed I can't get my photos out, can't login, and can't even get the links to he images anymore, everything on the whole site redirects back to the front page with the 7 year message, fuck them!