Storytlr Blog

Hello everyone,

If you have been following lifestreaming related news, you must have seen that this week was tough week for lifestreaming services. As Mark Krynsky points out in his post, Swurl has closed, Profilactic is looking for a new home, and Dandelife is refocusing. Mark also raises the question of data availability after such a service closes and advocates for Data Portability.

We fully agree. You having the control of your data is of major importance to us. We will have a developper API, and we will implement Data Portability when deemed mature enough. In the meanwhile, you already have access to our backup function, that lets you download all of your data as csv files.

We also wanted to stress that we have a reliable and tested backup system (based on LVM snapshoting, and mysqldumps, with remote storage). We actually had to use our recovery procedure following our failed update and it worked like a charm ! Yet, as the Ma.gnolia incident showed, even these can fail. We therefore encourage you to backup your data using our backup tool on a regular basis. If you would like us to facilitate this process even more, let us know on the feedback forum.

Reliability is also much better since our move to our new server. We have not experienced any downtime or slowdowns lately and don't see any reasons for this to happen in the future either. Slicehost.com is a fantastic solution !

Finally, as you know, storytlr is not a company but just a project we are running for fun. This means that we are not under financial pressure due to the crisis. We are actually working hard on our next release, bringing exciting new features such as unified tagging !

We are young, not funded, and we understand that this may scare some of you. We hope that this message answers concerns you may have. If you have any questions or ideas, do not hesitate to email us and we'll reply as soon as humanly possible !

Thanks all for your ongoing support,

Cheers,

-Laurent & Alard