Zootool

Straight from the grave: happy happy birthday to @pinboard — my favorite comedy Twitter account / bookmark service.

That’s it, we are offline. Thanks for 6 amazing years! zootool.com

I’m very happy about all the feedback for the Open Zoo idea so far. Please sign up for the newsletter for updates: bastianallgeier.com/openzoo/ – at Mannheim, Deutschland

If you would be interested in an open-source, self-hosted version of Zootool, check out: bastianallgeier.com/openzoo

Tomorrow is the big day. We will shut down Zootool at 5pm CET. Please export your data today. (Settings > Sync) – at Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg

I don’t want any further abuse of our API so shortly before our shutdown. – at Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg

I just took down all User API endpoints. Emails were never included in API responses, but the websites of those who entered it. – at Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg

.@MyMundus what did you do to get the domains of those 200 users? – at Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg

Ok, here’s an official statement from @MyMundus: mymundus.com/zootool

.@MyMundus I want an answer on that email issue immediately. It’s not only harming our reputation, it’s simply illegal what you are doing. – at Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg

Please just think twice if you want give your bookmarks to such a service. – at Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg

It’s sad to see how people shamelessly try to convert our failure into their own profit. – at Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg

To all users. We have no connection to any of those services that offer importers and we didn’t give out any of your emails.

.@MyMundus I’m receiving more and more complaints. How many people did you actually contact and how did you get their emails? – at Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg

.@MyMundus sorry, but that’s definitely the worst way to do this and I really insist that you take down our logo from your site as well. – at Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg

.@MyMundus this must stop immediately! Make sure to let those people know how you got their emails and that there’s no connection to us. – at Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg

.@MyMundus guys, you must be kidding me right? You are scraping our user’s email addresses and use our branding without admission. – at Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg

For visual stuff I’d probably go for something like Ember from @realmacsoftware Those guys build great software. – at Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg