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Background Info: Snapjoy was bought by Dropbox a couple of months ago: http://blog.snapjoy.com/2012/snapjoy-joins-dropbox/

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The short timeframe to migrate your data is worrying given that Dropbox is supposed to be in the 'data saving' business- I'd hope they'd cherish user's data more than this.

Also sad that Dropbox isn't investing in a migration story, though I saw Google do the same thing with Picnik when that was shutdown.

I doubt if 30 days qualify as short-time for anyone to download their photos from a photo-sharing service.

It's most likely that users use this service from their smartphones and so it's not like they are somehow going to miss the notifications they will keep sending perhaps every week your photos are still on their servers

> It's most likely that users use this service from their smartphones

So you're saying it's likely most of their users are completely unable to back up their photos at all? (since one of the top 2 smartphone OSes doesn't support downloading ZIP files, and the users of the other OS probably don't have enough free space on their MicroSD card)

Given that this is summer when many people are on vacation and have less or no Internet service and often the same for cell phone data service, which is famously limited anyway....

My aunt just went on a 3 month hiking trip through the country.

> "Though we won’t be accepting new signups, existing users can continue to use Snapjoy to share and enjoy photos just as you do now."

Not so much, I guess.

How long did you expect that to remain valid? They've trucked on for six months since the acquisition. Is there a reason to assume that statement was meant as eternally binding?

Well it's a fairly big jump from "First and foremost, don’t worry -- your photos are safe!" to "[In one month] all photos and data will be permanently deleted"

I can't imagine there are many uses who feel like snapjoy delivered on the sentiment of their "Snapjoy is joining Dropbox" post.

"Stay tuned, the best is yet to come" doesn't usually imply we'll give you 1 months notice and then delete all your photos.

That would have been helpful information in the blog entry.

Dropbox forced them into STFU mode.

The post is for their users not for external discussion sites that require additional context.

Six months ago.

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