November 2007 Archives
You may have noticed that not much has been happening with Moodgeist recently. That’s because it remains what it originally started out: a personal research project around Skype mood messages. It remains so.
My original goal was to find out how it is to build a server and clients for such service. This goal was fulfilled a long time ago. So it has continued to run fine as it was with zero maintenance… until this last hosting problem where I had to disable the display part of the site.
As the title says. I just posted a bulletin on Moodgeist.com. Here’s a copy of it.
Hi. I have some news about Moodgeist. It’s not that great, but what can you do.
I’ve run into a bit of hosting trouble with the site. It does not really work that well in a shared hosting environment where I’m running it, and I don’t at this time have time or energy to put into fixing it.
So I had to turn off the part of the site that displays things.
In a short and sweet format, here’s what’s the current state of the site and service.
- It continues to accept mood pings from compliant clients.
- The wiki continues to be available. You can still download and run the clients and they’ll happily send mood pings. I just don’t display the pings at this time. (Funnily enough, the part that accepts pings is much easier to run than the displaying part.)
- The site code is intact and fine. I could reactivate it at any time after either fixing it or finding better hosting for it. I just don’t have enough motivation at this time to make the site into a better shape and spend my time or money getting better hosting.
- Also the data collected throughout the site’s life is intact and sits fine in the database, awaiting better opportunities.
- I continue to like Moodgeist as a personal research/experiment project and I still may some things with it at some point. This is why I didn’t just nuke the whole site, but just deactivated a part of it for the time being. (But note that the previous sentence says “may” not “will”, and does not give any time frame. I have no idea if/when I will actually get back to it.)
Please track the blog for updates and future plans.
regards,
Jaanus
