[Coda]

Okay, yes, that one's slated for spring. It's making good progress!

[ml1201]

Just let us know if you need some creatures drawn up! XD

[Coda]

You know... We might. I'll have to bring it up with the staff.

[McSwiggins]

Have you seen the crap that is Syndrone? I mean, I loved the place at the time but IcontrolAwesomeness made an announcement saying he was quitting bringing new features and stuff, then came back and said he was going to continue the site then turned around and said the same as the first announcement. He sold the site to a lurker and a noob and they made one announcement and disappeared. No one can get a hold of them. The one announcement was in September.

[ml1201]

Damn, that sucks, I know a few people who liked the site.

[Tohopekaliga]

The weirdest thing about the Syndrone situation is...they are still paying the bills. Syndrone uses the same hosting provider as Trisphee, and I know they don't have pay in advance options, only monthly based on use of resources. So...Syndrone has been radio silence for half a year, but they've been paying the bills all this time.

[McSwiggins]

Ml1201: It does suck.

Toho: Seriously? Why are they paying the bills monthly if they dont want anything to do with the site? Thats kind of a waste of money. And really, last time I popped on to see what was up, I was the only one on. All 3 times and it wasnt at like 4 am either. The forums are pretty dead. I dont know, that just seems weird that they keep paying monthly but choose to neglect the site.

[ml1201]

That is weird, unless the person has no concern about money?

[Tohopekaliga]

Well, it's not terribly expensive to maintain, if you (like emilio) are a software engineer type. We usually have enough disposable income to foot the bill of something like keeping the site up.

It's still odd, however.

[McSwiggins]

Well, I guess that's true. But it still stikes me odd that they would continue paying monthly for it if they dont do anything with it, wont even message people back about their plans for it.

[Coda]

Heh, it's not that strange. My wife had me set up a website for a podcast she was going to do like three years ago, and then the person she was planning to work with on it just up and vanished. That site is still online and I'm still paying for it. (Admittedly I have it scaled back to an absolutely minimalist plan so it's like $7/mo for the host and $10/year for the domain name.) When the numbers are small enough and the automatic payments take care of themselves, it's easy to just not even think about it.

[McSwiggins]

Meh, I guess that's true but I still dont see the point in it but I guess maybe its because I tend not to hold on to things if I dont use them.

[Coda]

When you have that many kids, you have to have fastidious habits or else your house will get overrun! :P

[McSwiggins]

Haha yeah, exactly! I really wish I could save a bunch of things but I cant let my house get too cluttered or its not going to be safe for them to play in. :)

[ml1201]

I remember trying to run a minecraft server with my brother and having someone I knew run it for us because they had more time to manage things then me and my brother. It was originally $13 a month, which we alternated payments, but I put a limit on the number of mods that the server was supposed to have, and the guy managing it just kept adding more and more even after I said no (mostly because my computer was having issues because the mods were poorly coded or broken). So when I had to get a new car because mine was just too expensive to keep repair, I said screw it, I'm not paying for the server anymore and if my brother wanted to keep it up he had to pay for it. I also had it with the guy managing it because when he set up the server he did it with all his own personal information, name, email and paypal account. Then claimed that the host had it set up so it would do things by the IP address for signing into the console for the server and if either me or my brother tried to sign in it would lock the whole thing and no one would have access. Which I know is bull because one of the people on our server worked for a server doing coding and stuff, and they had the same company. Not only that but he also kept changing some of the game coding and settings that I told him to leave alone. He was basically trying to have complete control over a server that didn't belong to him. Needless to say I don't trust him anymore with anything. He's also now my ex because of stuff like this he kept pulling.

[gremlin]

I just read through this thread... eugh. Solia. I had a really bad experience on there. I still like going on there to write, I have a few RP partners, and I like the avatars + the items but... the community can be really bad at times.

I'm really sad that Ernya shut down.

Edit: I also wanted to add that I know someone who codes. He coded a website for me and a few other people, we were suppose to start a company that focused on content relevant to video games but it fell flat.... because of disagreements and the inability to communicate with some working on the project. Is anyone here interested in their work or?...