R.I.P. Sabifoo
The recent success of Twitter combined with the difficulty of scaling my implementation along with the unfortunate fact that some third-party libraries I was using seem to have changed and introduced some bugs I don’t feel motivated to track down means I have decided to shut down Sabifoo. It was fun while it lasted, but honestly I never had much of a grand vision for it - it was just something interesting to do for awhile. Sorry for any inconvience, folks, but I just don’t see the value in trying to keep it alive at this point.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
That’s bad news, I really loved it.
My question is, is there any way I could retrieve all the notes I sent to my Sabifoo page?
It was a collection of links I would not want to loose
Too bad if they’re all gone.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
@Blors: Oops. Didn’t think of that. I took off the redirect on web.sabifoo.com, so you should be able to see your posts there as before and get the information you need. Sorry about that.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Thanks a lot!
April 10th, 2007 at 3:49 am
VERRRY SAD!
stupid question: Is it possible to get the code for the bot? Friends of mine and me used it regulary so it would be nice to have it on our sites.
Anyway: Thx for that great work.
April 10th, 2007 at 5:59 am
zhtw
April 10th, 2007 at 6:22 am
hello
April 10th, 2007 at 8:11 am
How long will the current content stay up? I.e. how long do I have to migrate to somewhere else (I’m thinking about livejournal since it has an IM interface http://www.livejournal.com/chat/)
April 10th, 2007 at 8:15 am
@Kongobear: I’ll think about posting the source in the next day or so. It was nothing special, really. Just some Ruby code that interfaced with a Jabber server using the XMPP4R module. It also used MySQL as a backend for storage of the messages and such.
April 10th, 2007 at 8:17 am
@Evan: I don’t have any specific plans for how long the old content will stay there, but since it requires no maintenance on my part, I’m not in a huge rush to take it down, either. I’d say it’ll stick around for at least a month.
April 10th, 2007 at 11:27 am
@Sean, thanks, that helps.
April 10th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Awww
Well, I will say this about Sabifoo: it was a great service, and our players from Karinth are missing it already! I appreciate the presence of it and the ability it gave us to announce game news with no fuss, no html’ing and no delay. Thank you for all the time and energy you put into this for all of us.
April 11th, 2007 at 9:44 am
@Casey: Thanks for your kind words. Hopefully you can find another solution for your game.
April 12th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Wow, this is sooo sad. I really enjoyed Sabifoo! It will be missed.
April 13th, 2007 at 3:03 am
dude this was kik ass service - I will defo miss it too and thanks for keeping it open source and the work you did. Please email us when you release the code? (assuming you have our emails from these posted comments?)
April 15th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
?????????
April 15th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
I love simple things, sabifoo is a sample. What a pity for your decision. Whatever, good luck to you.
And, can I get the backup of my entires? Thanks.
April 15th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
sorry to see you go goodluck and god bless
bebarret a.k.a knightrider
April 16th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
@cvu: All of your posts are available online (and will be for awhile). Go to a URL like this:
http://web.sabifoo.com/get/SERVICE/USER
Where:
SERVICE is one of the following: aim, msn, yahoo, jabber, gtalk
USER is your buddy name or jabber id, etc.
So fill in the SERVICE and the USER parts using the account information and service that you were using to connect to Sabifoo.
Make sense?
April 19th, 2007 at 3:54 am
Sean, my setting was private, so I can only see an empty page by the way you suggested.
http://web.sabifoo.com/get/gtalk/cvu
April 19th, 2007 at 8:53 am
@cvu: It looks like you were using a nickname. Try this: http://web.sabifoo.com/get/by/cvu
April 20th, 2007 at 1:47 am
Thank you sean, got it.
April 22nd, 2007 at 12:39 am
My company is interested in continuing Sabifoo, please feel free to contact if you’re interested in selling your code/domain.
Harri Nyman
NTEK Technologies
May 10th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Twitter is NOT a good replacement! It’s slower and the UI stinks. I really miss Sabifoo…
June 1st, 2007 at 8:54 am
@MaryAnn
I totally agree. Sabifoo will be missed!!
June 10th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Sean, I just wanted to say thanks for Sabifoo. It was clearly an idea ahead of its time. It’ll be missed.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
看到有不少中国人，偶就用中文讲吧。
June 13th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Sabifoo was way better than Twitter is.
I’m using Twitter now, but I get so frustrated with it’s character limit. Everybody misses my Sabifoo posts, and e-mails me such.