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0 pointsgrawprog5y ago0 comments

I didn't say there was zero value, my statement also came with the assumption that upon starting this service, google never made it clear it would be temporary. I may be wrong about that.

Also, not everyone can afford to re-host their assets, not everyone will be able to, some might not even realize it'll be lost.

The broken trust comes from the idea that google likely promoted this as something that will be a new ongoing community that's now being shutdown unceremoniously.

The lack of trust towards Google's products come not just from the services they're providing they shut down, but they try to build up communities then abandon them with no recourse.

It wasn't just the assets they hosted, it was the people they were trying to bring together that are now scattered again because they trusted google.

0 pointsgrawprog5y ago0 comments

I didn't say there was zero value, my statement also came with the assumption that upon starting this service, google never made it clear it would be temporary. I may be wrong about that.

Also, not everyone can afford to re-host their assets, not everyone will be able to, some might not even realize it'll be lost.

The broken trust comes from the idea that google likely promoted this as something that will be a new ongoing community that's now being shutdown unceremoniously.

The lack of trust towards Google's products come not just from the services they're providing they shut down, but they try to build up communities then abandon them with no recourse.

It wasn't just the assets they hosted, it was the people they were trying to bring together that are now scattered again because they trusted google.

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VikingCoder5y ago· 2 in thread

"google never made it clear it would be temporary"

Why would you ever assume any service is permanent?

"The broken trust comes from the idea that google likely promoted this as something that will be a new ongoing community"

Anyone who "trusted" that a free service would work forever is being unrealistic.

"they try to build up communities then abandon them with no recourse"

They're hosting open source content. You can fork that. Anyone can fork it. If your content were hosted on Poly, you could use Takeout to download all of it in one go.

"that are now scattered again because they trusted google"

If there's any blame here, I would think it would be that there's not a group of people (like us at HN) who work closely with sites like Poly to back them up before they are shut down. Once we have a track record, we can ask Google to say not just, "We're shutting Poly down," but "and it's moving to Hacker News Back Things Up .com."

If someone wants to bridge that gap, moving this content to the Internet Archive or something, that sounds worthwhile.

chaostheory5y ago

It's a service tied to a paid $20 product called Google TiltBrush.

VikingCoder5y ago

There's a $20 product called TiltBrush.

There was Poly.

Titlbrush could export / import to Poly. That was added after the launch of TiltBrush, yes?

Sure, if you bought TiltBrush after Poly integration was added, I could see how that's taking away a feature you used, and that's a bummer.

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