Quote: "Although your comments are appreciated Keith, it is quite alright. I have had a conversation via email with Brian this morning and told him if he wanted to pass the site to someone else to host, that was fine with me. Our intention was to get the content of those authors we already have on our site posted, then contact the remaining authors to ask permission to post their content, so that nothing was lost in the shuffle. We're not interested in ruffling the feathers of a few that can't appreciate the intention we put forward, and we certainly don't want to spend any more time and resources on something that no one will appreciate. We can focus on more important tasks.
Thanks anyways."
It wasn’t a matter of not appreciating your offer, because I know I appreciate it and I'm sure the majority of the community does.
I think people may have been confused about the passing of the site when Blackfox said...
Quote: "No problem Brian. We're happy to help out. We're grabbing the folder you set for us and will cross-reference what we have already vs what you have. Then we will get the content we don't have posted in the download archive."
…it made it sound as if the site would lose its look and feel that it has now.
I think the other offers were made in the hopes of maintaining the site in a similar design that they have all grown used to admiring over the years.
Maybe I’m mistaken about the intentions of the other offers, but no offense was intended on my part.
I think the archive and a mirror site would be great, because having more than one source to the downloads would allow for 100% up time should one site be experiencing any kind of technical problems and both preferences of design would be accommodated. (although either one is fine alone)
Just a thought, and sorry if anything I said rubbed you the wrong way because I never intended that.