Adobe retires Storify but lets it live on as Storify 2 (sort of)
Remember Storify? Storify was a web service to use content from various social media sites and resources in what the service called stories.
An author could pull data from various sources, tweets from various Twitter users, videos, web links and other resources, and use them in a story.
Livefyre, which started out as a commenting platform but branched out since then to enter content marketing as well, acquired Storify back in 2013. Livefyre itself was acquired by Adobe in 2016, and shut down its commenting solution for regular users and business to focus exclusively on Enterprise customers.
Storify shut down
Adobe plans to shut down the service on May 16, 2018. The company has disabled registrations of user accounts already, but existing users may continue using the service until May 1, 2018. New stories cannot be created anymore on Storify starting on that date, and Storify itself will be shut down on May 16, 2018 for good.
Users of Storify may use the export functionality to save their work, as it is not carried over but deleted when Storify is shut down. It is rather unfortunate that exporting is only available for individual stories, and not all data of an account.
This means that you have to run export operations on each story that you want to save.
Do the following to export your Storify data:
- Log in to Storify at www.storify.com.
- Mouse over the story that contains content you would like to export and select "View."
- Click on the ellipses icon and select "Export."
- Choose your preferred format for download.
- To save your content and linked assets in HTML, select - File > Save as > Web Page, Complete.
- Repeat the process for each story whose content you would like to preserve.
Adobe suggests that Storify users switch over to Storify 2, a service by Livefyre, but fails to link to that service or explain how it differs from the first iteration. One thing that is clear though is Adobe has no plans to offer a free version of Storify 2.
Storify was easy to use. Users of the service could use drag and drop to add social media content to stories. This functionality became available to users of select social media sites such as Twitter as well. Twitter users can for instance bundle tweets in threads which made the functionality of Storify in the process less unique and useful.
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.