On January 30, social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia experienced a total data corruption when its main and backup servers failed. In the following weeks, updates to the site offered varying levels of hope for data retrieval, but a February 17 update from founder Larry Halff states that "database file recovery has been unsuccessful and I won't be able to recover members' bookmarks from the Ma.gnolia database." It's important to note the pronoun "I," because many users didn't know that Ma.gnolia has been created, funded, and primarily developed by Halff. In the video "Citizen Garden Episode 11: Whither Ma.gnolia?" Halff notes that, at its largest, the Ma.gnolia team consisted of four people. He also explains the data loss, what he could've done to prevent it, and how he plans to regrow Ma.gnolia. The Ma.gnolia failure was a total loss, according to Halff, because the backup servers were backing up corrupted data. "You can never guarantee anyone 100 percent of anything, but I can get a lot closer than I was in the...

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