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Trust Doesn't Rust
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Posted - 2010.12.17 23:35:00 -
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 Originally by: Nathalia Itiero
It's worth mentioning how ironic it is that for years we have asked for donations to keep the server running happily and to cover cost of new hardware, yet very little has come in (Pledgie total is like 360 gbp). But now that the service is closing you are all offering server hosting and favours. In my opinion that shows exactly how the community is and why people quit coding things like these and even quit the game entirely.
While I agree on the donations aspect, I heartily disagree on the offerings of servers. Not everyone has expendable income, in fact, some only have a server to offer as they have their own servers like myself for instance. If I am trying to raise money for my own expenses of running a host, I will be hard pressed to find the extra income with which to donate to a service, although wonderful it is, as yours. All some people can offer, people like me and a few others, is just that.
So please instead of taking the offers some of us put forward and throwing it in our face like we don't care, take some of them to consideration as a sign of respect.
I have send Ix an email requesting information, and if he had any questions to contact me further. I have roughly 12 coders who are wanting to jump on this project as we had already begun one similar. We do not seek to get everything for nothing, instead only request that which is offered but I have not yet received a reply.
While I intend our group to take on the project and as stated by Ix, develop it with our own approach, some of the information that would be provided would assist the community in establishing a working replacement for the many many tools that use EVE-Metrics as a base.
I for one will sorely miss the fact that Aura, one of the only few good EVE apps for android or any phone OS, runs off of EVE-Metrics data and will in most likely case cease to function.
Also please note I do not seek to be the one and only source for this project but would rather openly welcome other coders to the group effort as EVE-Metrics form and function have grown beyond a single groups project but a valuable community resource too important to just disappear.
Please contact me asap. If required we can arrange for a direct means of contact to discuss this further.
Thank you EVE-Metrics team for your past efforts and I hope whatever future endevours you pursue are fruitful.
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