Ma.gnolia Dies; Takes User Data with It
February 4th, 2009 by admin
Ma.gnolia, one of those chi-chi social bookmarking sites like Delicious, has gone down and doesn’t look like it’s going to get back up any time soon, indicating the hazards of storing data online without a local backup. This is the message on the site: “Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 30th, Ma.gnolia experienced every web service’s worst nightmare: data corruption and loss. For Ma.gnolia, this means that the service is offline and members’ bookmarks are unavailable, both through the website itself and the API. As I evaluate recovery options, I can’t provide a certain timeline or prognosis as to when or to what degree Ma.gnolia or your bookmarks will return; only that this process will take days, not hours.
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