Also, for those of who you are having issues with Gallery- I have to admit Gallery support has always been a little sketchy with Migratr. Different hosting setups have meant that one person’s 2.2 installation could work with Migratr, wheras someone else’s would tank out while it was still pulling album data (before photos were even downloaded)- On top of that the “API” is meant to be used with PHP, which Migratr isn’t even written in. Support basically started out by ripping code out of some open source .NET Gallery remote and tweaking it to work with Migratr. With 2.3 this seems to have stopped working completely, so in the coming weeks I’ll be hunting around for a suitable replacement.

Also, if any experienced .NET developers can recommend good plugin frameworks, I’m planning on modifying the core Migratr code so that someone can write a service support DLL, drop it in the migratr directory, and have it show up as an option. This would help enormously with Migratr’s ability to support closing services, since it doesn’t always happen at a time where it’s possible for me to ninja something together (especially since they’re often places where I don’t have an account, and have closed account creations).

Thanks for the patience. Happy migrating!

-Alex

If you go to the website, you’ll notice that in the pictures of the product, this monstrous beast of a pillow-chair-thing has straps on the corners which snap together, allowing you to make it form into a chair. This is why I’d chosen this product. The versatility of having a crash pillow that turns into a chair, that can be picked up and chucked in a closet when not in use (so as to free up room), so that you can optimize for space or seating in the living room on the fly depending on how many people are over. This is what made the Sumo Omni Plus a theoretical masterpeice- All the reviews I read touted those straps as the killer feature, the thing that really set it apart from the regular omni. But what I received in the mail wasn’t that masterpeice. Instead, I got what amounts to a giant freakin’ pillow. Not that it isn’t an AWESOME pillow. It’s still comfortable (even though the foam inside hasn’t finished expanding/settling- it’s been less than 24 hours), and you can flip it on it’s side and sit on it in a comfortable, slightly goofy fashion.

After going over all the packaging twice to make sure that it wasn’t simply an external set of straps that I’d tossed aside accidentally, I called customer support this morning, and was pretty surprised to hear their explanation.

“The new model doesn’t come with straps.”

Excuse me? So I basically just paid 50 bucks more for a regular Omni, only a little smaller and with a microsuade cover instead of rip-proof nylon? The pictures on the website were still the model with straps. This is where I honestly started to feel gipped, as we were pretty much matching the definition of “not as advertised”. The next words out of my mouth were, as a software developer, words I never thought I’d ask. “Can I exchange it for the older version, then?” She said that the old version was sold out, but that she’d check with shipping to see if they had any left, and call me back. I specified that I didn’t actually need them to send me a full new Omni Plus- I only wanted a new cover, the one that came with straps.

I suppose, worst-case scenario, I can just exchange it for a Gamer instead. Since the primary role is going to be as a chair and not a pillow, this seems like the logical substitute (also since it’s the exact same price). However, I’m a little worried about the return policy, which states that returns must be pre-approved by the Customer Service Department (is “I was expecting your older model, not the new one where you took away the feature I most cared about”), not to mention instructions, which state that all returns must be made in original packaging. This is a problem because the original packaging was vacuum-sealed, and the exposure to air has ballooned the end product into something much larger than one could ever hope to fit back into the box without the proper machinery. To give you an idea, here’s a picture of the Omni, standing next to the box it was shipped in.

At the very least, I think they need to update the pictures on the website, and throw an article into their “news” section that specifies the change to the omni. I have no idea what else is different in the “new version” of the omni plus- God knows why they removed those straps, but having done so they at least have a responsibility to not advertise something with more features than what they’re actually providing. As for sumo customers out there- I’d ignore the omni plus until this gets addressed. If what you want is primarily a crash mat, rock the straight Omni and save yourself 50 bucks. If you want something that’ll primarily be used as a chair, you should probably lean toward the “gamer” model.

Still waiting on a response from customer service as to whether I can get the old cover, straps attached, that actually makes it worthy of the “Plus” moniker, or not. I’ll let you know how that turns out.

-Alex

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Good times keep on rollin’, huh?

This is a pretty good-sized update, so without further ado:

Changes in version 0.9.0:

Features:

- “Phanfare”:http://www.phanfare.com support added! Yet another photo sharing site added to our collection of services. Thanks especially go to the users who cast their vote in the forums. The only ones who voted, voted for Phanfare. Let that be a lesson to the rest of you that the poll isn’t just up there for show. I actually pay attention to that thing!

-Resume Upload/Download is now functional! I’ve set it up to work without any user interaction whatsoever. If the file is on your hard drive, migratr won’t redownload it. If a resume list (it’ll be in a textfile called “pending.txt”) exists in the folder with all your photos, it’ll only upload the photos on that list, provided you’re uploading to the same service, and the list isn’t empty.

Bugs Fixed:

-FIXED: SmugMug was not authenticating properly.

-FIXED: Faces.com support is now fully functional: There was an issue where the API didn’t return photos that weren’t in albums. The Faces.com team were very helpful in fixing that and keeping me up to date.

-FIXED: Exporting to Picasaweb would create albums even though ones with an identical name existed.

Three features, three bug fixes. Enjoy, guys.
-Alex