And Kris Tate along with it.

As if the plethora of problems since the botched Mark III implementation weren’t enough, and as if the migration to the Japanese data center hadn’t created its own pains for those using the image hosting service, today marked a new and unimaginable low for Kristopher Tate and his Zooomr catastrophe.

My entire account is gone.  As all are of my images.

Not just the last six months that went missing when it came time to move this debacle to Japan.  Oh no!  Now it’s all of them.

I can’t even login to the service without having to traipse through the “new user account” process.

As of today, I simply don’t exist.  And I had a “Pro” account.

When Zooomr began taking money for its service, it stopped being a beta.  Period.  You can play that game elsewhere, but betas don’t cost money and don’t charge for additional functionality.

Them’s the facts, you buncha idiots.

As of today, I’m migrating to Flickr.  All new photos will go there, as has been the case for some time, and all old images will be migrated as time permits.

This disaster has been nothing short of a cataclysmic example of why some internet companies should never attempt to be anything other than a garage-based hobby for some acne-ridden, mindless twit who hasn’t a clue.

This is the big world, Kris.  Things out here don’t forgive and forget when it comes to almost a year of problems topped off with an utter and complete failure.

What you’ve done is screwed the living daylights out of us, your users that you claim to love so much, and you’ve forced us into a predicament where it will take a great deal more time and energy to recover from your ineptness than it did to invest time and money in what has amounted to a complete fiasco turned miscarriage.

The fact that I can no longer even rely on Zooomr to properly host my uploaded images or recognize me as a legitimate longtime user means you have betrayed the very people you need to survive.  Betrayed us in the most unforgivable ways, too.

Pathetic and pitiful.

I’m outta here.

We’ll see if Zooomr can ever get its act together.