Snip.it may be excited. I feel used and tossed aside. Yes, it was a free service so I should appreciate what I had. But, that’s just it. I did appreciate it. I went out of my way to promote Snip.it and I did give suggestions for making it better. I was really happy and feeling good about the community there and the content we were building. I invited friends to join. I was banned from a forum on another site because I tried to encourage more people to join Snip.it.
I noticed things were quiet on Snip.it for the past couple of months. It was unusual, but I didn’t really think about it. Then, out of the wild blue today this notice came up when I tried to add a fresh link to my account. I had already added several links just hours ago. So, this really did happen without warning. In spite of the words they say I feel betrayed and shocked even. I’m kind of angry.
My traffic was building, I had over 5,000 subscribers to my topics and I was able to see what was bringing traffic and what wasn’t. Now I have no way to keep in touch with my subscribers or ask them to follow me to a new site, nothing.
In the end, Snip.it is dumping us all for some mystery Yahoo! thing. What does that leave us with? A job curating content at a new Yahoo site? No. It leave us with absolutely nothing. But, we can take our links (which aren’t going to mean much stuck in bookmarks) and quietly get lost.
I made the Snip.it Hall of Fame. I didn’t look until I read the post Snip.it Snaps on Kitsch Slapped. Somehow it doesn’t seem to mean all that much. It would have meant a lot more when there was a Snip.it and I felt a valued part of the site and important to it’s growth. Now I wonder what Yahoo actually bought. (Our content collections and mainly, our subscribers? What was Snip.it if not a place for snipping content and sharing it with subscribers and those who wandered in from links we posted to social media?) I heard Yahoo paid $10 million for Snip.it. They say thanks for being a part of Snip.it, but I get no part of that. I’m left with far less than what I put into the site and I feel burned, really burned. The Hall of Fame thing is like getting a gold watch out of a bubble gum machine.
Im with you too on this! Went to snip and i got the notice, and im like WTF?!! Im sure they knew it was coming (the end) they could at least give us some warning, so we can starting finding a new home.. So my options now are down to Scoop.it (but i can only get 5 sections – or if i go pro (paying $12.99 pm) its 10 (woopie doo!) ~ but they dont take paypal ~ so not keen on that.. OR..use pinterest (i really want to keep pinterest for more visual and less text). ~ Delicious would have been a great option, if it still had the STACKS.. Do you know of anything else..?
I have found a few which I am liking.
http://loveit.com/thatgrrl – The most like Snip.it and nicely simple to work with. I started an account before Snip.it disappeared.
http://www.good.is/members/laura-brown – A cross between content curation and a tumblog (meta blog). A nice way to give a boost to your own content more than something to simply add links.
http://zeen.com/thatgrrl – A cross between content curation and publishing an ebook. I haven’t started anything yet, but Deanna has two topics up here. I have her as someone I follow on my account there.
I agree with you. I really liked Snip.it, too, and I was frustrated that it closed down without warning. Now I’m deciding between Scoop.it, Bundlr, and Annotary. None of these is perfect. I’ll try your suggestions, too. Thank you!
I’ve been using Scoop.it before I started with Snip.it. Let me know if you start an account there.