Now bitten, not shy: adieu ma.gnolia, re-bonjour delicious
In my own defence I will say, “how could I have known?” Ma.gnolia, a social bookmarking site, has had a catastrophic data loss – both production and backups gone, dead and buried. And the owner is (understandably) throwing in the towel on the whole business.
I adopted ma.gnolia.com over del.ico.us because it had a better design, and was, to me, less cluttered and easier to use.
I wasn’t a religious user. Unlike some folks, I didn’t live my life there. However there’s the niggling feeling that something I knew about is now gone forever.
I appreciate the owner’s efforts to recover some of his users’ data, but I didn’t have a lot of luck with it. I also appreciate his honesty and transparency in dealing with this crisis.
I also feel terrible because I recommended the service to some of my colleagues at work. I did implore them to use ma.gnolia’s backup function to save a copy of their data locally. I hope they took my suggestion seriously. I dare not ask.
So I’m back to delicious, which looks nicer than when I started using it.
And I’ve instituted a second backup regime on my own internet presence.
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