Fifty Fifty LI

Is it, fifty and out? Blip has become such a part of my daily routine that I couldn't have imagined that Blipfoto would come to an end before I stopped my series of sea and sky pictures.

And perhaps it will rise again, phoenix-like. But after the rising speculation fuelled by a lack of activity of any sort coming out of Blip Central and as others have shared already today it appears to be a fact that Blipfoto Ltd has gone into liquidation. It's up there on the Companies House website. It appears to be compulsory liquidation which those that know more about this sort of stuff have surmised probably means a single large creditor - perhaps HMRC - has forced their hand before they were quite ready. And the some believe that some legal aspects of the situation has meant Joe and the rest of the Blip Central team have been unable to make any comments about what was unravelling. which, let's not forget, means people are losing their jobs, as well as something they have worked so hard to set up and keep running.
 
So, as I type I half wonder if there will be somewhere to send this when I press <Publish>. It all seems to have collapsed very quickly, but perhaps the whole Polaroid link up was not so much a new beginning as a last roll of the dice.
 
For the moment the site seems to be ticking over, but I'm guessing the plug will get pulled soon. People are talking about where blippers should go. Other sites perhaps. But will it be the same? I actually wonder how many blippers there actually are. If you look at the numbers, the daily entry number between one blip and the next seems to increase by three or four thousand. What proportion of people manage a blip every day? Are there as many as ten thousand active blippers across the world. Doesn't sound that many when you put it like that.
 
And yet, in that global village of ten thousand I have met so many great people. Some I've even met in person. Whatever happens, I hope to keep in touch with as many of them as possible.
 
It is 'just' a website, but we all know it is so much more than that. Surely something can be done to keep it going in some form or other.

Turns out this was number 51 in the sequence, after a bit of a snafu last week...