plasticular inscriptor

So, to be terse. The last fm scrobbler worked for a little while on my older grey and white G4, which is running OSX Tiger. It had a burp a few weeks ago and didn’t work for a few days. There was an update, and it worked for a while, and now it stopped working altogether (well, it won’t post anyway, which is pretty much what its supposed to do). The AMUA open source scrobbler app can’t post tracks to my account to boot. The last fm app crashes immediately upon clicking the connect button on my work mactel. Obviously, there is some problem with their service, but the forums turn up no easy to find acknowledgement of a problem or solutions. The question: how long on average do “Web 2.0″ community service users (after committing a time investment in the service) stick around after the service stops working reliably or altogether? I guess the answer has something to do with how much Rupert Murdoch paid for Friendster. Oh, that’s right, MySpace took all their users and a Murdoch bought MySpace. Remember, just because you are offering a free service doesn’t mean it can suck; you wouldn’t give a starving person half a sandwich that your dog puked on, now would you?