Status.net service to phase out, replaced by pump.io

Evan Prodromou of StatusNet announced that the company's microblog-hosting service running at the status.net domain will close to new customers over the coming weeks, as the company begins migrating its offerings from the StatusNet software to it successor, the just-unveiled pump.io. User accounts on the existing sites running from the status.net domain will continue to function, as will the Identi.ca site. Self-hosted StatusNet instances will be unaffected by the move.