confusion at EBT (25/12/2007)
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 4:02 am
Dear Community,
We hope you had a peaceful Christmas this year and are enjoying your holidays
Unfortunately for EuroBillTracker Santa Claus brought a nasty surprise - the old domain (www.eurobilltracker.com) is no longer usable for our project. It turned out that one of the old webmasters is now using it to run "his own" project and earn money with the site.
This is totally against the spirit of our project (which has never been about money - except yours of course ). EBT has been made successful and BIG by the work of thousands of volunteers contributing endless hours of free work into this project - developing new features, translating, handling press contacts, organize meetings, helping with the support, coordinates, hit moderation .... and not the least by entering lots of notes!
We think that all this shouldn't be used commercially by anybody.
We think EBT is owned by the community, not a single person.
We think EBT is about fun, not about making money.
We've had long discussions in the past hours and reached a conclusion - we will transfer the EuroBillTracker project to our new domain and keep it running there. So please update your bookmarks and exclusively use
www.eurobilltracker.eu
from now on!
Simply exchange .com for .eu
All links will continue to work. We have a fully functional site at .eu including all data until 2007-12-24 around 5am. So if you registered any notes at .com since then you should enter this data again at .eu.
When you visit www.eurobilltracker.eu for the first time you'll probably have to log in again. Just type in your old account data and continue using EBT as if nothing has ever happened
Unfortunately we don't own the .com-domain AND it points to an almost functioning version of EBT in the hands of a greedy businessman ... so we need your help:
- Please spread the word about this drastic change - the community needs to know about this transfer!
- Update any links to the new .eu site. This includes forum posts, domains owned by you, signatures etc.
- Stop entering notes at .com - after all, how safe do you consider your data in the hands of somebody who wants to make money off you?
- Write an email to the old support address (contact@eurobilltracker.com) to cancel your account and delete your data. The bad news is that most likely nothing will happen since everybody who's been keeping EBT alive is now busy working at eurobilltracker.eu
- You could of course state your opinion on the old site, e.g. by changing your username, preferrably showing the new URL to inform new users about this move. E.g. I changed my username to Nerzhul_www.eurobilltracker.eu
If you have any questions or need a more detailed explanation of the current situation don't hesitate to write to contact@eurobilltracker.eu or visit our forum at http://forum.eurobilltracker.eu/
Again, new features, hit moderation, coordinates, support, newsitems, translations, forum moderation and so on will now only be available at eurobilltracker.eu
The entire team of volunteers who've been working behind the scenes in the past 6 years to make EBT possible transferred over to the new old .eu project.
We plan to keep you updated in the next few days. Thanks for your understanding and support.
On behalf of the EBT community,
the EBT webmasters avij (Anssi Johansson) and Nerzhul (Marko Schilde)
We hope you had a peaceful Christmas this year and are enjoying your holidays
Unfortunately for EuroBillTracker Santa Claus brought a nasty surprise - the old domain (www.eurobilltracker.com) is no longer usable for our project. It turned out that one of the old webmasters is now using it to run "his own" project and earn money with the site.
This is totally against the spirit of our project (which has never been about money - except yours of course ). EBT has been made successful and BIG by the work of thousands of volunteers contributing endless hours of free work into this project - developing new features, translating, handling press contacts, organize meetings, helping with the support, coordinates, hit moderation .... and not the least by entering lots of notes!
We think that all this shouldn't be used commercially by anybody.
We think EBT is owned by the community, not a single person.
We think EBT is about fun, not about making money.
We've had long discussions in the past hours and reached a conclusion - we will transfer the EuroBillTracker project to our new domain and keep it running there. So please update your bookmarks and exclusively use
www.eurobilltracker.eu
from now on!
Simply exchange .com for .eu
All links will continue to work. We have a fully functional site at .eu including all data until 2007-12-24 around 5am. So if you registered any notes at .com since then you should enter this data again at .eu.
When you visit www.eurobilltracker.eu for the first time you'll probably have to log in again. Just type in your old account data and continue using EBT as if nothing has ever happened
Unfortunately we don't own the .com-domain AND it points to an almost functioning version of EBT in the hands of a greedy businessman ... so we need your help:
- Please spread the word about this drastic change - the community needs to know about this transfer!
- Update any links to the new .eu site. This includes forum posts, domains owned by you, signatures etc.
- Stop entering notes at .com - after all, how safe do you consider your data in the hands of somebody who wants to make money off you?
- Write an email to the old support address (contact@eurobilltracker.com) to cancel your account and delete your data. The bad news is that most likely nothing will happen since everybody who's been keeping EBT alive is now busy working at eurobilltracker.eu
- You could of course state your opinion on the old site, e.g. by changing your username, preferrably showing the new URL to inform new users about this move. E.g. I changed my username to Nerzhul_www.eurobilltracker.eu
If you have any questions or need a more detailed explanation of the current situation don't hesitate to write to contact@eurobilltracker.eu or visit our forum at http://forum.eurobilltracker.eu/
Again, new features, hit moderation, coordinates, support, newsitems, translations, forum moderation and so on will now only be available at eurobilltracker.eu
The entire team of volunteers who've been working behind the scenes in the past 6 years to make EBT possible transferred over to the new old .eu project.
We plan to keep you updated in the next few days. Thanks for your understanding and support.
On behalf of the EBT community,
the EBT webmasters avij (Anssi Johansson) and Nerzhul (Marko Schilde)