Comments on: Facebook bans KDE’s photo uploader; all uploaded content inaccessible.

By: F2

F2 — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:20:19 +0000

Personally, I dislike Facebook on several levels.

From there to “this is what happens when you trust a company” there is a mile.

So, when a fellow human being screws you over, you deduce “this is what happens when you trust humans”? When a plumber does not do his job to your satisfaction, you dismiss the whole species? Race? Color? Nationality?

This is what you get when you trust people named Will 😉

1) RELAX, if you are entrusted with a megaphone, your responsibility is to use it to improve the environment, not rant.

2) Appeal. Facebook has a large staff handling that thanks to ill-formed laws like the DMCA. If you use a civil tone, they will most likely help you.

3) Maybe the app ACTUALLY violated the terms. Knowing if it did or not may help your appeal (“the app violated terms, but I still would like my data” vs “the app did not violate terms, and anyway I would like my data, could you help?”)/

good Luck -Federico

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:13:58 +0000

I was one of the users affected by this and I can confirm that it’s working again. Apparently the KDE devs filed a bug on the Facebook developer’s bugzilla.

The only response they got was silence but they also fed the story to some tech new websites. Once that was done it wasn’t long before the app was magically re-enabled.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 08:25:14 +0000

Stumbled upon this as result of Phoronix article on Novacut.

Open Photo – Kickstarter appeal http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jmathai/openphoto-a-photo-service-for-your-s3-or-dropbox-a?ref=spotlight

Not sure what to make of this “Kickstarter” could be way to get projects going with donations and infrastructure and time, yet OTOH the scamware potential is huge. Perhaps if Open Photo is legit, a KDE app could support it.

By: Ricardo Chung

Ricardo Chung — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:59:29 +0000

Now, It is working again. I tested Digikam and Gwenview with no issues at this right moment. I was remembering myself how fragile Cloud Services are, how customers are losing their own stuffs control.

By: Carsten Schlipf

Carsten Schlipf — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:45:20 +0000

Well, my picture that have been uploaded with Kipi are back online and the Kipi plugin is listed in my applications again – that was not the case yesterday evening. Has this been resolved, or did Facebook just bring the content back?

By: Vincent Batts

Vincent Batts — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:31:17 +0000

Will, appeal it!
https://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=dev_disable_appeal

I have been twittering and posting about it, as well as submitting user help tickets, but the developer can request an appeal.

By: James Mason

James Mason — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:51:12 +0000

Wow, the trolling. From what I’ve seen, the Facebook KIPI plugin was violating FB’s Terms of Service. I agree that taking down the existing content is ass, but, well, them’s the breaks.

Hopefully the next version of the FB KIPI plugin will be more a bit more careful about compliance, to protect users from this kind of problem.

By: 6205

6205 — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:35:54 +0000

Social networks are using only idiots. Private data in cloud have backed up only retards.

By: Relaxion

Relaxion — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:46:12 +0000

I’m curious how Diaspora will stack up to FB. When it will open it’s registration, goodbye FB 😀

By: Rodaimos

Rodaimos — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:06:10 +0000

That’s what happens when you trust the cloud of the corporations, in general.