Zooomr ... huh?

This post was written on 2007/06/15 at 14:35:18 by Horst Gutmann

Thanks to Flickr's handling of the whole censorship issue (or lack thereof), many people are now asking for alternatives and quite often Zooomr get mentioned. Could anyone please explain to me, what's so great about it, because I don't get it. Yesterday I created a new account there just to see what this is all about.

To sum up what I noticed so far and what problems I've faced:

  • I created an account not using OpenID and now I seem not to be able to edit my profile. So where can I now change my password, my e-mail address and so on?
  • It's great that you have "Learn more" and contact links ... if they'd work and not just throw a 404 message.
  • So now I logged out ... forgot my password and can therefor dump my whole account? Or have I just missed the password-recovery link?

I hope I've just missed something here, because otherwise this would simply look like a big joke.

Comments:

  • Stefan (Guest)

    Well, it is a beta! Oh wait, the rest of web2.0 is also in beta, and those sites do work... ;)

    June 15, 2007, 4:39 p.m.

  • Mathias (Guest)

    Perhaps its a setup from Yahoo! They turn down their own photo suite and bribe all others just to be unusable. That's Yahoo's evil Flickr master plan.

    And what are we going to do tomorrow, Brain?

    ;) Mathias

    June 15, 2007, 10:09 p.m.

  • Thomas Hawk (Guest)

    Hey Zerok, Zooomr very much is still in beta. We just did a major relaunch and are still working at getting some of this functionality built into the site. If you'd like for me to reset your password feel free to shoot me an email at tom(at)thomashawk.com or ping me at thomashawk22 on yahoo or thomashawkaim on aim.

    Happy also to answer any of your learn more questions personally.

    We will get this core functionality up and built into the site soon. We are just a two man team right now. Myself (and I can't code) and our CTO sole developer Kristopher Tate. We are working hard day and night to get the site better and better. It will improve dramatically in the weeks ahead.

    And thanks man for checking us out.

    Tom

    June 15, 2007, 10:14 p.m.

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