Lyrael
It is with a heavy heart that I write this message to all of you.
I would like to start out by saying the each member of the development team (aka: The Elder Council) feels privilged to have worked on this site for the little over two years we've all been involved. Each one of you that have joined and participated in our "little community" have made our "jobs" enjoyable, fulfilling and rewarding. (Yup, even on the bad days!).
However, as you may have noticed, there has been some lessening in activity from the Elders over the past month, and there was a reason for this. WhuddleWorld has been running out of funding resources and the entire team, to some degree, while continuing to work on new features and items for all of you to enjoy, has also been busy trying to help us secure new sources of investment to help keep the site up and running.
Unfortunately, we are running out of time and it looks like WhuddleWorld may be going through some large changes in the upcoming weeks.
1) Most of the development team will be moving on in the very near future to seek other employment opportunities - though every ONE of them has agreed to volunteer as much as they could around their other committments. (Family, new jobs...)
2) We have several other companies interested in absorbing some part or possibly all of WhuddleWorld as part of their operations. While these possiblities are worked through, it is like that as early as April 31st, 2007, the site may be offline
(unavailable) for a period of time.
NOTE: When and if this happens a placeholder page will remain with updated information about what the status of the site is.
3. We will be taking Dazzledab purchasing offline entirely tomorrow (Friday, April 13th, 2007). We are doing this because Dazzledab purchases are meant to be used actively on the site and if we know or believe WhuddleWorld may not be available after the 31st for even a short period of time, it would not be fair to all of you to ask you to purchases resources you would be unable to use as expected.
We still remain hopeful that _something_ may happen to change this situation in the near future, however, we could not, in all good conscience, not provide an opportunity for each of you to share your thoughts, feelings and say any goodbyes, etc. that you might want in the case that WhuddleWorld does have to close its doors.
We will be opening up a 'Feedback' topic tomorrow. I ask that each of you please, respect the "Terms of Service" and keep your comments to the subjects of sharing your thoughts and messages with one another, rather than crowding this with nonsensical or "spammy" type posts that will force us to close it back up again.
As silly as this may sound, please know that the Elders each care about this site and each of you that have become a part of it very much, and we will miss you all, and our work on WhuddleWorld, very much as well.
~Elder Lyrael and The Elder Council
I would like to start out by saying the each member of the development team (aka: The Elder Council) feels privilged to have worked on this site for the little over two years we've all been involved. Each one of you that have joined and participated in our "little community" have made our "jobs" enjoyable, fulfilling and rewarding. (Yup, even on the bad days!).
However, as you may have noticed, there has been some lessening in activity from the Elders over the past month, and there was a reason for this. WhuddleWorld has been running out of funding resources and the entire team, to some degree, while continuing to work on new features and items for all of you to enjoy, has also been busy trying to help us secure new sources of investment to help keep the site up and running.
Unfortunately, we are running out of time and it looks like WhuddleWorld may be going through some large changes in the upcoming weeks.
1) Most of the development team will be moving on in the very near future to seek other employment opportunities - though every ONE of them has agreed to volunteer as much as they could around their other committments. (Family, new jobs...)
2) We have several other companies interested in absorbing some part or possibly all of WhuddleWorld as part of their operations. While these possiblities are worked through, it is like that as early as April 31st, 2007, the site may be offline
(unavailable) for a period of time.
NOTE: When and if this happens a placeholder page will remain with updated information about what the status of the site is.
3. We will be taking Dazzledab purchasing offline entirely tomorrow (Friday, April 13th, 2007). We are doing this because Dazzledab purchases are meant to be used actively on the site and if we know or believe WhuddleWorld may not be available after the 31st for even a short period of time, it would not be fair to all of you to ask you to purchases resources you would be unable to use as expected.
We still remain hopeful that _something_ may happen to change this situation in the near future, however, we could not, in all good conscience, not provide an opportunity for each of you to share your thoughts, feelings and say any goodbyes, etc. that you might want in the case that WhuddleWorld does have to close its doors.
We will be opening up a 'Feedback' topic tomorrow. I ask that each of you please, respect the "Terms of Service" and keep your comments to the subjects of sharing your thoughts and messages with one another, rather than crowding this with nonsensical or "spammy" type posts that will force us to close it back up again.
As silly as this may sound, please know that the Elders each care about this site and each of you that have become a part of it very much, and we will miss you all, and our work on WhuddleWorld, very much as well.
~Elder Lyrael and The Elder Council
Straight from the BBBBoards themselves.
What are your thoughts on this? I'll be really sad to see it go, even if it is for only a short time. What needs to be done needs to be done though, so I guess it's unavoidable.
My Whuddle has a permenant sad face though. sad
