Erik Persson › Comments

Confused, the website is up and you have a recent post there so what's stopping you? [edit] now I see your comment and that makes sense now - dbcohen

Dave, I can only get Pownce to load a page about 20% of the time in any browser and when I try and post a photo there repeatedly I get the error message above. Pownce has been virtually unusable for me for 2 months now. It's so much work to have to try to load my page 10 times to simply try and post a photo there. It's sad because it's a great community and I love the site but It's just so difficult to use. I used to post there every day. It's getting too hard to do that anymore. - Thomas Hawk

it works for me using the buttons on zooomr... - Bill Scherer

Amazon's S3 is down right now and it's affecting a lot of sites (some more than other). Much of twitter's avatar hosting is hosed, as is Friendfeed (for friendfeed items). Reddit is boned too. Pownce probably relies on it a bit more than some sites. - Clint Ecker

IMO they really missed the boat when twitter was experiencing their severe problems. They seemed well positioned to make a move - wondering where management was on that one? - Morgan

More discussion by Pownce themselves here: http://getsatisfaction.com/pownce... - Matt Campbell

I wonder if I drop contacts if it would load my page better. I haven't added any new contacts in two weeks or so because I've assumed that because I have so many contacts there that this is one of the reasons why my page won't load. I posted on the getsatisfaction thread as well. Maybe this will get resolved somehow. - Thomas Hawk

Yeah try dropping contacts, that would speed it up. I think Pownce's biggest competitor is Tumblr, not Twitter. Tumblr has blown it away according to Compete: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/pownce... - Sam Purtill

I had the same error as TH did, earlier today. One error, then posted correctly. - Trevor Carpenter

The errors (not sure about this one you mention) have been happening for months, white pages and posts that either error out or disappear after saying they posted, amazingly the new desktop client works well, and they pushed out the iPhone App, but they still haven't fixed these issues even though have acknowledged them in earlier posts weeks and weeks ago. - cmiper

damn, you have to "unfriend" people one at a time over at Pownce. grrrr.. I started doing it and then I just felt bad for some reason unfriending people. I'm not sure how to make the site work for me though without unfriending a bunch of people. Grrrrr.. Maybe I'll just skip Pownce altogether for a while. - Thomas Hawk

Ariel Waldman at Pownce confirms what I suspected. Pownce will load better if you have less contacts. The only problem now though is that I'm reluctant to spend the time deleting contacts one by one. Hopefully they can figure out a way to randomly dump 1,500 or so of my contacts there to get it to work for me. Kind of a sucky thing to have to do, but better to do that and have it... more... - Thomas Hawk

Thomas - It's a known issue. Scoble and Veronica Belmont have the same problem. Too many followers right now = fail - Charlie Anzman

I used to enjoy Pownce too... Went away for a while, and when I came back it seems like all my contacts were ignoring me. Couldn't really get back in the conversation so I dropped out. Fortunately that's about the time I found FriendFeed so I'm not missing it much. - Her Lindsay-ness

I miss pownce too. TGFFF - Internet's Tad

lots of contacts, but no action... Kinda like a lot of sites that surge and grow but ultimately don't get enough general traction. I just Ping.fm my pownce account and don't go there much otherwise. - Roger Kondrat

I barely use Pownce anymore. I only got like 3 people added. - €€€€€€€€

I never really got the point of pownce comparatively to the other services like tumblr & twitter... - Erik Persson

friendfeed is the future. I really don't want to micro blog. if I want to say something I will blog it. - Noah David Simon

Never could get into Pownce. If anything I see Friendfeed as a Pownce killer than a Twitter Killer. - Chris Rodgers

did you tried their recently updated Adobe Air-App? Find it here: http://pownce.com/download/ - Torsten Eckert

Just tried to post a photo to Pownce again. Same error: (1062, "Duplicate entry '2869176' for key 1") - Thomas Hawk

Wow, finally got a photo posted Pownce. That was a *ton* of work. - Thomas Hawk