Zooomr Update 2:
Thomas posted an entry that gives the conditions for the release of jUploadr’s API key. Note I didn’t mention a specific time, but instead it will be released “Once we have 100% stability”.
Here’s hoping Zooomr measures stability using sufficiently small time-slices. It would really suck if they waited a year or so. I know of no site that has 100% stability when measured over a year. 
Again, sorry for the wait, but I suspect that the form-based upload method serves as a useful upload limiting factor right now. The last thing Zooomr needs is for all the jUploadr users to fire off hundreds of pictures at their already limping server.
I’ll update you guys when I know more.
June 7th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
couldn’t you ask them to make it possible to allow juploader - with a limited bandwith?
June 7th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
I *could* ask, but jUploadr still makes uploading photos much easier than the form-based uploader. Furthermore, Kris is EXTREMELY busy, you’ll have to trust me on this one. I was there when zooomr’s database crashed hard, and he has bigger issues to worry about than creating a throttling application for one solitary application (even if it is their de-facto uploader).
Let me be clear, the reason I cited above for delaying jUploadr’s API key was just speculation, but it makes sense.
June 8th, 2007 at 5:18 am
I will wait for the update!!!,…This is a nice tool to publish photo in Zooomr and Flickr. I love it. Thanks!!!
June 8th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Hey maybe its time to employ some bloody people eh
James
June 9th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
I’m amazed by the lack of planning by zooomr. that’s just amateurish. sorry
June 10th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Hi greate tool,I use it under ubuntu work fine.
June 15th, 2007 at 10:05 am
any news?
June 15th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
I have just sent Kris a build of jUploadr to test on zooomr’s site.
June 15th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
What the process if I want to transfer all my pictures from Zooomr to Flickr and vice versa ?
Is there a single tool for that ?
I can see uploaders but what about the downloaders ?
Thanks!
June 16th, 2007 at 2:31 am
great to know that, it means a new version is not far?
great!
June 16th, 2007 at 3:41 am
Before Kris is activating the juploadr supply , he should solve the problem with the empty smartsets. Its senseless to upload a lot of pictures if you can’t combine them in a set…
June 16th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Awesome! Good to hear that there’s progress!
June 16th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
FYI, Zooomr now has a bulk uploading feature on the upload page. I’m still looking forward to using juploadr, though.
June 17th, 2007 at 6:09 am
it would be great if it could also handle http://www.ipernity.com/ uploads, its just like flickr.
June 19th, 2007 at 3:42 am
any feedback from Kris regarding your build, scohen?
June 22nd, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Nothing as of yet. I IM’d him yesterday, but he didn’t respond.
June 23rd, 2007 at 7:00 pm
When will you update?
June 24th, 2007 at 11:47 am
I’ll update when Kris enables the API key. He’s being slightly elusive (busy?) now.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Thomas Hawk just said this earlier today in a comment on the Zooomr blog:
“We also will have jUploadr back up online soon which works with Linux. Please bear with us while we get this fixed.”
http://blog.zooomr.com/2007/06/25/zooomr-launches-paid-pro-accounts/#comment-108833
June 27th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Hey, I for one I am getting a little disillusioned with zooomr. The lack of response and the inability to come through on every single promise/timeframe has gotten tiresome. I understand there are only two people working on the system but surely if it’s as unique and the “best photosharing site in the world” … then why haven’t any investors stepped in? Or why don’t they allow donators via paypal to become mini-investors which would encourage more donations and give people a vested interest in the company thus creating more money and more interest. Hell, even Microsoft got going in the beginning by giving employees slices of the pie. Something like this might galvanize interest in donating if investors can not be brought in via more traditional methods.
As for jUploader … as a Linux user, I’m left stranded (as are many others as I’ve noticed on zooomr’s blog) as zooomr’s web based uploader will not work with Linux even with Firefox having the same base engine in mac, win, and lin. Getting jUploader is a must for me if I have any way of uploading photos at all. I’m not willing to ditch a system I’ve become comfortable with (kubuntu linux) just so I can upload photos to zooomr.
Frankly, right now I think this is simply letting flickr show them up again. They’ve introduced some nice new organizing features and their pro plan is comparable with zooomr’s which doesn’t really add any extra features at this point anyway.
It all seems a bit of a cluster F**** over there at the moment.
June 27th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
myke,
I feel your pain, but only slightly. I’m not a regular zooomr user, but I have been over to Kris’s a couple times and he’s definitely in a bind.
What happened here is that the hype of mark III got a bit ahead of the coding, and some of Kris’s inexperience is showing. He’s only 19, so he hasn’t made the types of mistakes that one makes in order to learn those painful lessons. It’s rather unfortunate that he’s learning the lessons in such a public and catastrophic fashion.
I’ve been in almost daily contact with Kris, and right now, they just can’t handle all the extra photos that jUploadr will enable. They’re short just about everything hardware-wise. This is a shoestring operation that you’re dealing with here. Kris is the *only* coder.
I have no idea where they got enough money to buy the original servers, but photo sharing isn’t the easiest business to make profitable. Witness Flickr’s quick sale to Yahoo so many years ago. Despite their loyal fanbase, they just couldn’t make it work on their own. Let’s hope Zooomr manages to find some way out of this trouble.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Any chance for suppport for 23? http://www.23hq.com
They claim that their API is really close to the Flickr API.
Python based FlickrUploader has been converted for 23 but juploader would be better.
July 4th, 2007 at 4:23 am
Any news from Zooomr on the API key yet? I’m not uploading a thing there until jUploadr is working again!
July 4th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Nope, no word.
The builds are completed and ready to ship, all I have to do is turn them on once Kris turns them on on his end.
July 6th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Hate to say this, but this tool does not seem to work on Linux.
When i try to do the authorization, i get the following error:
Jul 6, 2007 9:15:43 AM org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase processResponseHeaders
WARNING: Cookie rejected: “$Version=0; cookie_intl=en-us%3Bus; $Domain=flickr.com; $Path=/”. Domain attribute “flickr.com” violates RFC 2109: domain must start with a dot
Thanks,
John
July 6th, 2007 at 10:10 am
John,
The error you are seeing is harmless and due to flickr’s non-compliant cookies. It should still work just fine.
Of course jUploadr works on linux. It’s developed on linux, linux is my primary OS, and all of my photos have been uploaded via jUploadr running under linux.
There could be other problems like missing GTK libs, or since the error is happening during auth, jUploadr might not be able to find your web browser, but it does work in linux.