On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 07:54:19PM +0000, samwise wrote:
I have no intentions of drawing this out but it's patently obvious that to backup the wiki would require SFTP access to the files on the server, which is the access that was available only to a select few.
I think you are mistaking how many people had access to the site, it was few who all volunteered their time. There was no "old boys network" as you suggest which is quite frankly a fairly offensive comment.
If you check the 2007 archives, you will see I was more than happy to setup a new site but it was very clear that people would view this as a "split" and so we agreed to make the best of what we had available. I then "did something" as you put it, which was a good chunk of the site that has just disappeared.
It doesn't matter if you had have split, if this is what you would have rather done then don't cry to me about it. Nobody ever stopped you! it was your choice!
I think the many hours I put into the content that was on that site, gives me the right to say my piece. To suggest as you appear to be doing, that I may not have contributed enough to the development or management of the site is, may I say, a gross misrepresentation.
All you are doing is throwing around bad vibes directed at other people who may not have been in a position to have done anything better or differently. Yes it's a shame, but as yet you've not done anything constructive only start slinging mud.
The choice now for aluggers is to rebuild the site or move on, having a witch hunt isn't going to be helpful. There really isn't anything that can be done now that will bring the old site back, if you want to create your own sites then please do so, nobody here is stopping you.
What else do you want people to do? I suppose we could offer a full refund?
Adam