6th August 2024, 4:42 AM
Fortunately, this wasn't the result of some lawsuit, because if a site like Romhacking.net were to be taken down, then nexusmods would be next, as PC game mods and rom hacks are basically the same thing. No, no it's far stupider than that.
The original owner has posted an "explanation" of the shutdown, but what it amounts to is that they refused to step down as owner and pass things along to new ownership due to bad blood between this owner and some of the people wondering why the switchover was taking so long. There were disagreements about moving the site to newer tech and how best to achieve that, and some weird complaint about how to get the mods moved over to the new system that suggested the site owner wanted them physically mailed?
The collapse has one benefit, in that the whole site has been archived, so as long as that archive sticks around, the mods will still be available. What a disappointment. There's another person who's desperately trying to get THEIR mod hosting site to be the "replacement", but there are so very many things wrong with that replacement I won't even bother linking it. Suffice it to say it's hosted using BLOG software and THAT owner is also operating a ROM hosting site which would definitely put that new mod site in the crosshairs for a shutdown in the same way that Switch emulator was shut down due to the creators actively promoting and trading Switch ROM links.
The original owner has posted an "explanation" of the shutdown, but what it amounts to is that they refused to step down as owner and pass things along to new ownership due to bad blood between this owner and some of the people wondering why the switchover was taking so long. There were disagreements about moving the site to newer tech and how best to achieve that, and some weird complaint about how to get the mods moved over to the new system that suggested the site owner wanted them physically mailed?
The collapse has one benefit, in that the whole site has been archived, so as long as that archive sticks around, the mods will still be available. What a disappointment. There's another person who's desperately trying to get THEIR mod hosting site to be the "replacement", but there are so very many things wrong with that replacement I won't even bother linking it. Suffice it to say it's hosted using BLOG software and THAT owner is also operating a ROM hosting site which would definitely put that new mod site in the crosshairs for a shutdown in the same way that Switch emulator was shut down due to the creators actively promoting and trading Switch ROM links.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)