Vimeo, End of an Era

[Marcio Kabke Pinheiro]

5 minutes ago, Clark Nikolai said:

I've seen it though. I was working on a TV show and was about to delete my copy of the footage as I was finished with that episode and got a call from the producer. Both his copies of the footage went poof! The main copy and the backup copy drives both got corrupted somehow. He freaked out but fortunately I and the editor had copies of the footage.

I started backup cloud when my local HD got corrupted (a thing that - fortunately - never happened again in the last 8 years), I've ran CHKDSK in Windows and it deleted the corrupted videos; and since at the time I had a sync software and did not noticed the deletion, they were erased at the external drive too.

I'm an amateur and nothing REALLY important was lost, but I miss some concert footage - specially three from a amazing Sharon Jones concert.

Now the cloud and external HD backup never delete files.

[PannySVHS]

I'm not even talking about data storage as such, which you guys are referring to. Though it's another dubious move, that they simply delete all your videos which you have uploaded under a paid account, if you don't renew your paid membership.

[QuickHitRecord]

I've been paying for the "Pro" plan for the past ten years. With the 'Review' video function that Frame.io copied from them, it's been a great collaboration tool for working with clients. I still have all of my search functionality and can click on usernames to see their bios and highlighted videos.

The one thing I don't love but I can't say that I'm surprised by is that I now have a 1TB limit on my total storage. If I want 5TB, it's double the price. I've written to them asking if they could give us a "finalize video" button that will purge all of the drafts that it is currently saving -- I don't need them after delivering a video. This would allow me to bring my storage needs way down. They said that they would look into it.

It doesn't seem like the platform is flourishing, but I haven't looked into switching because it serves my needs and I have a couple hundred videos uploaded (all are backed up locally).

[eatstoomuchjam]

Now it's truly the end of an era.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707699

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sjtjgbabzx

 

[zerocool22]

Doesnt look good. Hope thzy wont go under, I have hosted most of my videos up there.

[MrSMW]

11 hours ago, zerocool22 said:

Doesnt look good. Hope thzy wont go under, I have hosted most of my videos up there.

Ditto, well over 800 of the things…

I finish my annual accounts for 25 later today and tomorrow I’m going to start putting year by most recent year, all of finished productions up on YouTube plus all future ones so if/when the plug is pulled, I will just need to change a few links.

I only need to go back 5 years max so maybe about 100 uploads but still… 😏

[Andrew - EOSHD]

Time for a UK / Europe Based Vimeo alternative then. Time to make our own.

[MrSMW]

1 hour ago, Andrew - EOSHD said:

Time for a UK / Europe Based Vimeo alternative then. Time to make our own.

I would be up for that but SquareSpace would have to link to it as an option as I think they only currently link to Vimeo or YouTube for video?

Could be why there are no other competitive other options out there?

[Video Hummus]

11 hours ago, MrSMW said:

I would be up for that but SquareSpace would have to link to it as an option as I think they only currently link to Vimeo or YouTube for video?

Could be why there are no other competitive other options out there?

This is the problem with a closed, corporate owned web. 

[Ilkka Nissila]

21 hours ago, MrSMW said:

I would be up for that but SquareSpace would have to link to it as an option as I think they only currently link to Vimeo or YouTube for video?

Could be why there are no other competitive other options out there?

To host a large quantity of videos for streaming probably requires quite a bit of money and if there is no paywall then someone has to pay the bills and how to attract enough advertisers to cover them later. US has a lot of filthy rich people who can afford to arrange for these things to happen and take the risk. Europe spends its money taking care of people and so this money for investment is not as easily available unless funded by government or EU money. Since we don't want the business model to be based on data collection & IP theft, what would the business model be based on? Subscription doesn't work because US companies offer free services (but you are targed ads and your data is given to everyone somehow through intermediates and may be used for surveillance, political manipulation etc.)

 

I think basic IT services (including video and photo hosting, forums, social media, basic tools) in Europe should be government funded or at least subsidized and all the infrastructure, code, and data must be located in Europe and preferably the code should be open source so that any manipulation or other illegality can be detected. And the platforms should be considered legally co-responsible for any illegal content or activities.