Update on the Fotopic issue
Joel Rowbottom has posted the following information;
"Good afternoon everyone --
(Rather than suffer from Chinese whispers and absence of context, I thought I might as well join this forum and you can get it from the horse's mouth, so to speak...)
An official statement will be coming soon (in the next day or two hopefully) but in the meantime to allay everyone's concerns I'm pleased to confirm we've 99% reached a way forward on making the Fotopic data/images available for download in the structure it was held in the Fotopic galleries, complete with captions and comments and all that stuff. It'll be available in a couple of different formats for about 3 weeks, assisting in migration to other services as you wish. You will also be able to delete/remove your account and all data from the Fotopic servers if you have made alternative arrangements by now.
The blank 'fotopic.net' page is currently due to the switch-overs happening to where the system is currently hosted.
Pikfu.com is back in development and although I've been at pains to point out that it is not fotopic.net (and there is a different feature set/structure), if you want to migrate to Pikfu as a beta-test user you will be able to do that quite easily as well. We've had to change things substantially at Pikfu to enable this, therefore the full site will now not be launching until July 2011 for new users; if you want to use it before then, you'll need to be an 'immigrant'.
I will post the official statement here as soon as it has been approved and the system is live. I am however very pleased that we finally managed to work out a solution to make the images available to the users, thanks to the kind intervention of several different parties and stakeholders.
Anyway, as I said, more soon.
Cheers
j"
