You may have noticed that I experiemented with some of my Picture of The Week pictures on the photo-sharing site Zooomr. In general I enjoyed the concept, and quickly thought that I would be able to settle into the social photo-community of Zooomr.
There is no official “I forgot my password” page, and although I was 80% sure of the password when I first registered it would not work. After several emails to the staff they finally reset my password, though even with the new password I could not log in. Since I had not uploaded any pictures yet, I thought I would just re-register. I did, and everything was working fine, as long as I accessed my Zooomr page from the machine I registered on. The second hick-up was uploading. Some of my bigger pictures did not upload correclty, and since the upload had not completed I could not access the picture to delete, even though the pictures showed up as thumbnails on my user-page.
The final straw for me was yet to follow. When I tried to log on from another computer, even though I was now 100% sure of my password I was yet again faced with incorrect login credentials. Re-emailing the staff, and still a couple months later I have not received a reply. Before posting today I see that I am not the only one experiencing these problems, see here. Just today I researched the login topic again and finally was able to login again. Apparently even though login asks for an email address it wants your username. Who could have guessed?
I continue to wish Zooomr the best, and hope to give them a second chance in a couple months. Now I need a little break.
Yeah I think the large consensus is now that Zooomr is a bunch of slackers- After realizing that, the next question is…which service to switch to? Trust one of the new comers or go mainstream Flickr-ish?
I think mainstream Flickr’ish will be my next move.
There is something about having a more timeless service. I am imagining that some people who have hundreds or even thousands of images on the net, would want to be able to export/import with metainformation, tags etc. restored.
I found http://www.pixamo.com Go to the upload tool and then click import- they allow you to import your photos/tags/etc from a bunch of other sites, Zooomr being one of them. Makes it real easy– Good luck