Why picplz shutting down

Instagram began pulling ahead in the filtered mobile photo sharing space more than a year ago and in , PicPlz pivoted into being part of Mixed Media Labs , a broader smartphone app development company. Mixed Media Labs went on to spin out PicPlz as its own independent entity and has since spawned new products such as mobile platform App. We will update this post with any information we receive.

Thank you for your support of picplz and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. Users are encouraged to login prior to that day in order to download their photos, including those ones of you shooting Instagram and Facebook Camera in the face.

Violence isn't cool, but who are we judge how your grieve? Sign up. The Camera Guide. See all articles. Considering the experiences that you have had with defunct providers of comparable services, what would be your suggestion for relatively novice smartphone Android users who enjoy posting snapshots in their social media accounts?

Foursquare posting is a requirement for me. Steamzoo looks promising, but has no Foursquare integration. Pixlr-O-Matic has no sharing. Lightbox Photos got gobbled up by Facebook. Hipster has no Foursquare integration and its name prevents me from using it. If you haven't read it, basically he explains that you can't trust the cloud. You can't trust free services, and you can't even trust a number of paid services.

And, what would you have done if instead of giving you a month Picplz gave you three days? Would losing all those odd photos and associated data be worth the year and a half of use? In your last post you said people need to keep backups, have you? If so why do you need to download those photos etc.? Personally I don't use free services beyond two Yahoo email accounts that I've had since or , and which I no longer give out but some people still use on the net. Yes I miss out on some of the social aspects of things like Flickr that I'm sure I would enjoy.

Yes, hosting my own stuff costs money. But ultimately, for me there are two things more important. I control my website, with my own domain, etc. I own my website. I own my content. I don't give permission to marketing scum to save, share and sub-license in any medium. Well, I do. But I choose to do so, using a Free content license.