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What's left to ask other than can I have my artwork back (that was taken away without warning when MB AND Anipan shut down)?
I'm pretty sure by now he's not going to do that at all with how things are going now. I want my stuff back and if I have to be an annoying squeaky wheel about it, so be it. (And don't give me that Wayback Machine link, it doesn't do crap.)
Can't believe I praised you guys and everything back then. Thanks for proving me wrong.
So he didn't bother to post ANY response anywhere (Twitter, Facebook, deviantART) until a bunch of us rose up to flush him out? All this did was confirm that everything that was promised, the MB archive, the Anipan updates, were all hollow lies. Was it really so hard to keep people in the loop after all this time? What's to convince us Inkr will be any different?
MB and Anipan went out not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a dead silence. Sad.
The point of it all was to create a new self-sustaining community, because MB was unable to support itself. Remember that MB was pretty much running on donations and funds from the owners' pockets in the end: there was no way it could continue to survive this way, Eddz & Toad would go broke. anipan was supposed to solve this problem, and support MB so they could co-exist alongside one another. Just thought I would clarify. Let me know if I didn't make sense...
I'm sorry, tarahm, but I have to call BS on this. They could've easily put 3rd-party ads on the site to help fund it. The option is there, they just chose not to use it.
On top of that, the lack of updates and fixes on MB was just asking for people to NOT subscribe. Really, who would want to subscribe to a site that wasn't being managed properly? You cannot fault the users for not subscribing when the owners did little to make it more subscription-worthy.
MB did not have to die. Anipan did not have to exist. All of this could've been easily prevented if the original site (MB) was simply updated and fixed on a regular basis and supported by ads until the site could sustain itself through subscriptions only. I and other users would be happy to deal with ads if it meant MB could continue to exist. But for some reason or another, it just didn't happen.