It's not possible to have friends at InSimenator.net unless you're a necrophile.  InSimenator.net is dead.  It is being vulturized as we type.  Go chat to your surviving friends at Sim Oasis

I get the occasional twinge of a crush on Pescado myself, at times like this...

At the very least it might put off future entrepreneurs trying to make a living off the sims community.

So stop thinking of yourself as staff then, and you won't be.  Shitstorm problem solved.  It's not the place you signed up for any more - you are released.

And if everyone must join in the slurping at least organise it so you do a section each - not everyone heading for the same one first and leaving some out altogether

Really could have done with a swipe/removal procedure to be a totally effective protest.  The creators who didn't have backups can be handed their stuff back from the swiped collection.

I am just getting the normal "cannot display webpage".  Never had the connection interrupted one.

In principle I have nothing against Walt (or anyone else) running InSim.  And he was apparently honest about he was intending to make a profit unlike the rats who ran out on us.   But he did need to speak to the contributors before starting to think about taking an income from the site.   Maybe many of the creators would have said "whatever", but it is pretty much in contravention of their copyright to deliberately start making a profit from publishing their work without entering into an agreement with them.  Even TSR obtains the agreement of their creators.   He definitely needed some awareness of these issues before considering his options.  

And purely for his own benefit, he also needed to contact each staff member to find out which was happy to transfer to working with him and change his team to suit if necessary.   No one with any sense goes off for 4 days leaving people who might hate him or have any level of integrity or otherwise with the keys to the whole site.  The admins are actually displaying a good level of restraint, but he was not to know they would.

I have a complete duplicate of my site - pages and downloads - on my local disk so any time I have to change host I just upload it as it is.  That's one of the reasons I use pages rather than attach to my forum - cos once when I lost my forum and restored from its backup that I had diligently taken, I learnt that attachments never get backed up, and the links to them stop working.  Loads of tedious work to reupload everything even though the wretched attachments are sitting there happily in their folder being ignored!

It's down again.   Everyone seems to be trying to "back up" stuff from there.  WOuldn't it have made more sense to just leave it to Pes?  At this rate no one will manage to get it all.

Any admin with time on their hands should be making themselves busy deleting the forums!

Looks like there is still one Admin over there batting for Walt.

I used to find some of her humour quite irritating, but I wanted to be nice to her because people used to tell me what a hard time she was having in her personal life.  But I think she's made up for that now with a few thousand of our dollars.

Caffeinated Joy sounded like she was intending to stick by him.

Is it my imagination or have the main admins stopped posting too?