I am PISSED, genuinely PISSED.
A few days ago, Share on Ovi posted on their blog AND sent me an email that they were migrating the Share on Ovi account and merging it with the ubiquitous Nokia account. I was pumped, although I use the same username and password for both, but for newbies, it would make things simpler. The migration went fine, and I assumed that the situation was safe again to plough through my media and get back to uploading.
My Media? 300+ photos and videos I’ve taken in the past month or so, that I haven’t had time to upload. I used Shozu, my favorite media uploading tool, which I’ve set up to upload to Facebook, Flickr, and finally Share on Ovi using email: khouryrt.mymedia.password@share.ovi.com. I selected my 300+ media files, sent them to upload, and fell into sleep last night.
I woke up this morning, decided to check my images on Share on Ovi, because this is the ONLY site where I bother creating Channels and organizing my media, and what do I see? Nothing. NONE of my media files is there. NONE what-so-freaking-ever! I don’t know why, but I directly decide to check the Upload tab to see if the upload emails weren’t changed during the move, and guess WHAT? They were! Now instead of the dot in the emails, there’s a plus. My new email address is khouryrt+mymedia+password@share.ovi.com . And ALL the channels have received the same treatment.
I went through my emails and the Share on Ovi blog, in all innocence, looking for the notice about this change, and thinking that they “should have” said it somewhere and I skimmed through and missed it. Oh no they didn’t! You would think that if something like this was going to happen, they would have the courtesy of telling you in advance! But no. Not a notice, not a P.S at the end of the post/email, not a “psssst you might want to check your uploading email”, NOTHING.
So I am PISSED. My 300+ media uploads from yesterday night went into thin air. Well, they are on Flickr, they are on Facebook, but they are not on Share on Ovi, which is, and I repeat it, my favorite media sharing service. I am using unlimited WiFi, but what if I was using my very-limited 3G data connection to upload 10-20 images? Whoever thought this April’s Fool joke is funny, please explain why you assume that people who are using an email address to send to their Share account are not worthy enough to warn about a drastic change like that.
