Luum and absent
Fri Feb 17 00:59:39 EST 2017Subject: Luum Public Accounts Closing
From: Luum
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 21:11:35 +0000
Together we did make a difference.
** Public Accounts Closing
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Dear Luum participant,
I am writing to let you know about an important change coming to Luum. As of March, Luum will no longer support public accounts. Because you use a public account, you will no longer have access to the Luum site and the Luum calendar that you use to record your trips.
Until now, Luum has supported both public accounts and employee accounts. Employee accounts are set up through one's employer. While public accounts are coming to a close, Luum will continue to serve employers and their employees' growing commute needs.
I want to thank you for making Luum a part of your transportation experience. More importantly, thank you for choosing to take alternatives and welcoming your co-workers, friends, and neighbors to join you on your journey in the carpool, vanpool, bike, or transit.
Luum remains committed as ever to making the commute more convenient, fun, and sustainable as our work with employers and their partners continues.
Should you have any questions, please email us at feedback@luum.com (mailto:feedback@luum.com?subject="Question about closing my Luum public account") .
Thank you,
Sohier Hall, President/CEO
This is the website that hosted the Ride-in-the-Rain Challenge in November (when DC didn't have much rain), the Bike Everywhere Challenge last spring, and the Bike Month Challenge the year before. I've logged 787 trips there, sometimes with comments about weather or events, and sometimes with photos from the rides.
Like the free photo-hosting sites that failed me (one gradually lost functionality, and then vanished; the other had "disk crashes" and lost all my photos - several times), I wondered what the business model was for hosting such a service. It let us set up a competitive framework that might have prodded some people to bike (or transit) commute instead of driving. Companies and agencies could create teams. In the DC area, you could compare your agency with others. I guess all this data will be lost - or at best, inaccessible. I'll have to do some screen scrapes before the end of the month to capture what data I can about our teams. And my own rides are a log I want to keep.
I was going to add a photo to one of this week's entries, but I guess there's little point now, since we won't be able to see it in a week and a half. Will the public-account entries still be there for the employee accounts to view? Not that they will have heard of any of us, so why would they look for our entries?
BadgePedal PusherBeach CruiserUrban CyclistHood HopperCity TrekkerCalf Crusher
Trips040120240480720I'm not going to get to see what the next level-badges are. I'd worked out that there are 2 more levels, with the next at 960 rides (and the last probably at 1200). I wonder how many people have gotten to the various levels? I was expecting to get to 960 before the end of June. I wonder how many accounts there are, and how many are active?
Saturday 19:08
I've got a text capture of all my Luum ride entries. What took much longer was identifying all the photos that I'd included. The photos are almost always the same date as the entry (occasionally a day off - either way - if I had a lot of photos; 1 photo per entry, and you can't have more entries without having more rides), but it wasn't always easy to see which photo I'd picked if there were several very similar shots of the same thing. I posted 68 photos total, starting in Jan 2016, with big months of April (18), May (12), June (9), and October (11).
Other months had 3 photos max. Nothing photo-worth? Too busy? Too wet (for the camera)? I know this winter sometimes it was too cold to stop or to take my gloves off. The ducks in the C&O Canal Tuesday afternoon, all butts-up, would have been a great shot, but I was cold.
Probably not co-incidence, but January is when I got the smaller DMC-ZS40 (aka TZ60) camera that's easier to carry than DMC-FZ18. The FZ18 has a much bigger lens, and it feels light (in the sense of not dense) and delicate, and I was never comfortable carrying it in my bike panniers. So I seldom had it with me.
What I don't have saved from Luum yet is the team and challenge info. And I don't know how much of it is worth keeping. I haven't met many other cyclists at work; I don't know my "team". If any of those names came up without context 5 years from now, would I have any idea who they were? Do team numbers have any meaning without comparison to other teams? Does it matter how often and how far my co-workers rode?
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/869378.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
From: Luum
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 21:11:35 +0000
Together we did make a difference.
** Public Accounts Closing
------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Luum participant,
I am writing to let you know about an important change coming to Luum. As of March, Luum will no longer support public accounts. Because you use a public account, you will no longer have access to the Luum site and the Luum calendar that you use to record your trips.
Until now, Luum has supported both public accounts and employee accounts. Employee accounts are set up through one's employer. While public accounts are coming to a close, Luum will continue to serve employers and their employees' growing commute needs.
I want to thank you for making Luum a part of your transportation experience. More importantly, thank you for choosing to take alternatives and welcoming your co-workers, friends, and neighbors to join you on your journey in the carpool, vanpool, bike, or transit.
Luum remains committed as ever to making the commute more convenient, fun, and sustainable as our work with employers and their partners continues.
Should you have any questions, please email us at feedback@luum.com (mailto:feedback@luum.com?subject="Question about closing my Luum public account") .
Thank you,
Sohier Hall, President/CEO
This is the website that hosted the Ride-in-the-Rain Challenge in November (when DC didn't have much rain), the Bike Everywhere Challenge last spring, and the Bike Month Challenge the year before. I've logged 787 trips there, sometimes with comments about weather or events, and sometimes with photos from the rides.
Like the free photo-hosting sites that failed me (one gradually lost functionality, and then vanished; the other had "disk crashes" and lost all my photos - several times), I wondered what the business model was for hosting such a service. It let us set up a competitive framework that might have prodded some people to bike (or transit) commute instead of driving. Companies and agencies could create teams. In the DC area, you could compare your agency with others. I guess all this data will be lost - or at best, inaccessible. I'll have to do some screen scrapes before the end of the month to capture what data I can about our teams. And my own rides are a log I want to keep.
I was going to add a photo to one of this week's entries, but I guess there's little point now, since we won't be able to see it in a week and a half. Will the public-account entries still be there for the employee accounts to view? Not that they will have heard of any of us, so why would they look for our entries?
BadgePedal PusherBeach CruiserUrban CyclistHood HopperCity TrekkerCalf Crusher
Trips040120240480720I'm not going to get to see what the next level-badges are. I'd worked out that there are 2 more levels, with the next at 960 rides (and the last probably at 1200). I wonder how many people have gotten to the various levels? I was expecting to get to 960 before the end of June. I wonder how many accounts there are, and how many are active?
Saturday 19:08
I've got a text capture of all my Luum ride entries. What took much longer was identifying all the photos that I'd included. The photos are almost always the same date as the entry (occasionally a day off - either way - if I had a lot of photos; 1 photo per entry, and you can't have more entries without having more rides), but it wasn't always easy to see which photo I'd picked if there were several very similar shots of the same thing. I posted 68 photos total, starting in Jan 2016, with big months of April (18), May (12), June (9), and October (11).
Other months had 3 photos max. Nothing photo-worth? Too busy? Too wet (for the camera)? I know this winter sometimes it was too cold to stop or to take my gloves off. The ducks in the C&O Canal Tuesday afternoon, all butts-up, would have been a great shot, but I was cold.
Probably not co-incidence, but January is when I got the smaller DMC-ZS40 (aka TZ60) camera that's easier to carry than DMC-FZ18. The FZ18 has a much bigger lens, and it feels light (in the sense of not dense) and delicate, and I was never comfortable carrying it in my bike panniers. So I seldom had it with me.
What I don't have saved from Luum yet is the team and challenge info. And I don't know how much of it is worth keeping. I haven't met many other cyclists at work; I don't know my "team". If any of those names came up without context 5 years from now, would I have any idea who they were? Do team numbers have any meaning without comparison to other teams? Does it matter how often and how far my co-workers rode?
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/869378.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]