As I'm sure a lot of you might/might not know, my journal (as I was informed a weblog is tee totally different) is powered by Greymatter. It's a wonderful program and I can't imagine life without it.
Unfortunately, Noah Grey, the original programmer, hasn't worked on the program itself in over 2 years, I believe. He was burned out, and I don't blame him. However, there was a very lively, intelligent, and all around helpful group of people who did work on it. Chief among them was one Indigo Meridan, who went so far as to offer web hosting with greymatter preinstalled in the accounts. He was kind enough to send me a revamped version of it that included an extra text field to use as I wanted (which I plan to for fic archives).
Sadly, Indigo has closed down the support site. See, for all that he was willing to work on the program, people still demanded more. And these demands were usually rude. Not to mention the fact that, in his own words, 80-90% of all questions asked could have been answered if these people had just taken time to read the instruction manual.
I don't know what singular incident forced Indigo to quit. Probably it was a buildup of things (I would frequent the baords and I saw what he would go through). In the end, thanks to collective stupidity, another helpful site run by a nice person is closed down.
I still say we're already in the handbasket. I'm just waiting for the big foot to push us off into hell.
Comments: 2 sighs
Wow, that sucks.
You know, I've seen this a lot--that is, Good People leaving because of idiocy from Bad People--and every single time it pisses me off. A stupid minority can easily mess things up for a happy majority.
**shreds things**
What /is/ the difference between a weblog and a journal?
( 2:57 p.m. )