As some of you may have noticed, the Flickr Gadgets website (including
Group Trackr) is down since a few days. The timing is quite infelicitous since we were going to celebrate the subscription of the 10,000th group, to introduce new features in the group reports and to publish some results of the first year of analysis on Flickr group dynamics.
My hoster (Dreamhost, FYI) candidly wrote in to say that they "disabled my server because it was generating too much traffic". This happened last Saturday without any notice and should give you an idea of how professional these guys are (should you ever consider Dreamhost to host your website, think twice).
The
good news is that we are still tracking the daily evolution of groups that were subscribed to Group Trackr before May 10 on a private mirror. Unfortunately, it will take some time before we settle on a new hoster and the graphs and group reports become available again. Apologies for the inconvenience, further announcements will be made in the
Nitens group discussion forums.
Thanks for your patience.
UPDATE. Group Trackr is
live again!