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Everyone was wondering why UKDNF went offline for so long..
I have sent Aaron an email asking if all is ok and whether he needs any help in bringing the site back up. When I heard he is spending time with his daughter and is going to make an announcement in the evening, it was immediately clear that the forum is not coming back..
But the circumstances were mystifying..
Aaron has denied any third party influences and stated that it was his own decision to kill UKDNF, but obviously everything didn't add up, especially as he refused to pass the administration (or at least to provide back the contents) to someone more capable.
It was only until later in the day that I learned from GreyWing's blog what has actually happened.
(be sure to read another post about Ryan Ewan involvement)
Ryan's Brandable, after 4000000000 hours in the works, had such a botched launch that every "for sale" page was leaking private seller's data, including emails, phone numbers and bank account(!) numbers.
Instead of taking this matter as a grown-up (notifying ICO, etc), Ryan decided to fight with the messenger with his full hands and censor any mention of the leak discussion.
I couldn't believe Aaron could bow to such unwarranted claims and first remove post from the original poster, then going down even further and kill the whole forum.
Brandable should only be grateful that their leak became known so soon, instead of running their amateur platform with their typically inherent hype and seed Google cache with pages containing private data for so much longer.
I have sent Aaron an email asking if all is ok and whether he needs any help in bringing the site back up. When I heard he is spending time with his daughter and is going to make an announcement in the evening, it was immediately clear that the forum is not coming back..
But the circumstances were mystifying..
Aaron has denied any third party influences and stated that it was his own decision to kill UKDNF, but obviously everything didn't add up, especially as he refused to pass the administration (or at least to provide back the contents) to someone more capable.
It was only until later in the day that I learned from GreyWing's blog what has actually happened.
(be sure to read another post about Ryan Ewan involvement)
Ryan's Brandable, after 4000000000 hours in the works, had such a botched launch that every "for sale" page was leaking private seller's data, including emails, phone numbers and bank account(!) numbers.
Instead of taking this matter as a grown-up (notifying ICO, etc), Ryan decided to fight with the messenger with his full hands and censor any mention of the leak discussion.
I couldn't believe Aaron could bow to such unwarranted claims and first remove post from the original poster, then going down even further and kill the whole forum.
Brandable should only be grateful that their leak became known so soon, instead of running their amateur platform with their typically inherent hype and seed Google cache with pages containing private data for so much longer.