Thursday, October 05, 2006
Mobog
hey pud!
wots up wiv mobog? will it be fixed soon? hope so! :( haha
vicki
Hi Vicki,
"What's up with it" is a pretty general question. So I'll give you general answer. And for those who don't know, Mobog (warning: not safe for work) is a site I made a few years ago so I (and others) could easily post pictures to the Internet from any cell phone camera.
The site became really popular really fast.
The rest of the story isn't so great. Firstly, any site that displays unmoderated user-submitted photos on its homepage will turn into probably 50-75% porn. As did Mobog. The other problem is that I basically neglected it, so it's been riddled with server issues and slowness for the past 2 years or so.
Which caused a traffic decline.
Not to mention I still get at least 2 or 3 emails every day from random people who are like "I can't get Mobog to work for my phone!"
It's kind of heartbreaking, knowing that it's not working for some people, and not having the time to fix it. Which is a shame because I think it would probably be pretty popular, like Flickr or something if it were faster, moderated, and had new features.
Anyway, it still gets a little more than 200,000 pageviews per day, and lots of new pictures are sent in, so I'm still weirdly proud of it.
Hey, thanks for asking this question! You've motivated me to take a break from this post and spend 30 minutes fixing it. I switched to a new system for leaving user comments and I think its sped the site up a little.
Notice in the right column of this blog, "latest mobile pic." This is one of the cool features of Mobog... I can be anywhere and send a picture from my cell phone directly to the homepage of Pud.com.
So, yeah, this wasn't supposed to be an advertisement for Mobog. Actually, any more users and it would probably start crashing again...
UPDATE: See this post for more info.
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