Practicum Pioneers

Entries from January 2009

Ma.gnolia has wilted

January 31, 2009 · 1 Comment

This is from Mashable.com.

Social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia is having a very rough day. The service has been taken completely offline, with data corruption and loss that “will take days, not hours,” to fix.

Basically Magnolia, had some sort of crash at their headquarters (can a website have a HQ?) and is as of now, defunct.

This is taken directly from the website’s page:

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 to when or to what degree Ma.gnolia or your bookmarks will return; only that this process will take days, not hours.

(more…)

Categories: Posts
Tagged: ,