I know. I'm very much a benefit-of-the-doubt, walk-a-mile-in-their-shoes kind of guy, so I tried not to read too much into workings that I knew little about. The problem, though, was that he just wouldn't communicate with the userbase. It was impossible to know what he was doing, and why he was doing it.

Even so, I still tried to attribute the most noble motivations I could think of to Mr. Mike. What finally tipped the scales for me was his clear, flat-out promise (in a site-wide announcement post) to provide noteboard exporting tools. And then his subsequent breaking of that promise. Even if he didn't want to write the tool, the least he could have done was give us advance warning. Instead he left us hanging, and a lot of people lost a big chunk of their online "lives." I won't say that action was unforgivable, but it was definitely inexcusable and unconscionable on his part.



I agree, and they may (continue it). I really don't think they've intentionally removed the wotmania landing page, and I hope that people will give it a week or two before they get upset. The reason I mentioned the link, though, is because I assume Mike knew it would be there. He communicated a lot with Jason before the site's demise (one of few people he talked to), and had some knowledge of what to expect. If Mike knew he could re-direct people looking for WoT content (which is what most people originally came to the site for, even at the end) to where it could be found, and still provide the community with a link to the new place. . .well, I think that's a workable solution. Not one I'd have chosen, but nothing terrible.



If everyone who went to wotmania.com saw our RAFO link on the landing page, then we got some of it. You're preaching to the choir in this respect, though. I agree that it would have been better to direct people here, rather than Dragonmount. I'm not as upset about this facet as you seem to be, but I DO agree with you.



Yeah, and I'm sorry about that. As one of the admins and people with better than average tech/web knowledge, I felt kind of guilty about the whole thing. I kept thinking Mike and/or Ben was going to work something out, but that never materialized. I only started looking into the problem three or four days in advance, and that just wasn't nearly enough time. I know some people (Ben?) grabbed most of the messageboards, but I think people lost the majority of their noteboards. I wish I'd done something a little earlier.