Post by nikloveland on Feb 6, 2011 6:44:16 GMT -9
It has been quite some time since the website has really had any changes. We try to keep with the releases of the HOARD submissions and such and will continue to do so. We also plan to expand the information relating to paper modeling (Tutorials, Gallery, Wiki, etc...). To help this process along, we are going to move the website to a new content management system (CMS). The changes will include a shopping cart feature, so that we can offer exciting new model sets along with some of the old ones. When we move to the new website, we will temporarily be taking most of the model sets down. Any free HOARD files or files from the forum will still remain on the site as free downloads. Once we get the shopping cart up, we will be re-releasing the removed sets as a paid product, along with the new products as they get finished.
This change will also help us bring some of those gems hidden throughout the forum to the website. There are tons of great stuff but it's sometimes difficult to find. We hope to organize it into something coherrent/useful and then share it more widely. We can hopefully make the website more useful to our community with this change.
I've given myself a very aggressive deadline (and we will see if I can make it) of Feb 15 but it's more likely to be that weekend (and hopefully not later).
Some of you may be dismayed to find that many of the sets that were formally free will now cost money; but we need money, for food. Please understand that we love you, and we don't want to take all of your money (you work hard for it, and we all deserve food). Thus, we have given you enough prior notice to get all the sets you don't already have. Now that you have all the free minis you need, go and get your friends onto the site, so that we can take all of their money - instead of yours (see, we love you! ;D). Let me re-iterate, any HOARD files will forever be free. (On the other hand, if you would rather pay for those, too, we will not stop you).
This change will also help us bring some of those gems hidden throughout the forum to the website. There are tons of great stuff but it's sometimes difficult to find. We hope to organize it into something coherrent/useful and then share it more widely. We can hopefully make the website more useful to our community with this change.
I've given myself a very aggressive deadline (and we will see if I can make it) of Feb 15 but it's more likely to be that weekend (and hopefully not later).
Some of you may be dismayed to find that many of the sets that were formally free will now cost money; but we need money, for food. Please understand that we love you, and we don't want to take all of your money (you work hard for it, and we all deserve food). Thus, we have given you enough prior notice to get all the sets you don't already have. Now that you have all the free minis you need, go and get your friends onto the site, so that we can take all of their money - instead of yours (see, we love you! ;D). Let me re-iterate, any HOARD files will forever be free. (On the other hand, if you would rather pay for those, too, we will not stop you).