Flipcode.com ist endgültig geschlossen
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flipcode.com, eine bekannte Gamedev-Seite, stellt den Betrieb ein. Bestehende Artikel und IOTDs bleiben bestehen, genau wie das Forum. Neue Artikel und neue IOTDs wird es allerdings nicht mehr geben.
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Weiß mann denn auch warum?
MfG SideWinder
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Soweit ich das in den Foren mitgekriegt habe war gegen Ende nur noch "kurt" aktiv an der Seite beteiligt. Er hatte sich zwischendurch schonmal für geraume Zeit abgemeldet und hat jetzt wohl einfach zuviel mit seinem Real Life / Job zu tun. Alleine so eine große, internationale Plattform zu verwalten kann man aber auch niemandem zumuten.
Aber das es so kommen musste war klar. Das letzte Update der Webseite gab es vor zwei Monaten, in den Foren herrschte seit dem Anarchie (2 Spinner "asmcode" und "accu" waren da die ganze Zeit über ziemlich aktiv
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kein großer verlust, die seite hat eh nichts getaugt
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Hi,
Ich bin betrübt über diese Nachricht.
Es scheint Mode zu sein das jetzt eine Webseite nach der anderen dicht macht. Zuerst hat es meine geliebte Schwachsinnsseite www.ballz.de getroffen und nun auch Flipcode.
Schade! Auch wenn ich nicht ganz so oft bei Flipcode vorbeigeschaut habe ist es trozdem schade.
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Das mit Ballz.de hat mich auch tief getroffen, muss ich sagen, Mr. Eyeballz war schon genial...
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ich hab auf dieser seite nie was sinnvolles gefunden. talk about making künstliches drama about a website nobody cares about.
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Flipcode is done.
Flipcode has been around 6 and a half years apparently. They've always been second or twentieth banana to GameDev.net. What doesn't make any sense to me though is why they yanked the ads. They're leaving up everything as read-only including the forums. Why not continue to profit?
I'm by no means getting rich off of this web-site but it is making money. I can't think of a good reason to cut off a positive revenue stream. No matter how little it is. Just because you're not getting rich or not making as much money as you used to doesn't mean you shouldn't make anything at all and in fact, end up losing money. Without ads, Flipcode is just going to be paying hosting costs and have no way to recoup them.
IcarusIndie.com has been around since July 24th 2001. The site has been around since January 2001 though. I just didn't choose a final name until July. I don't see it ever closing its doors. I'll always find a use for this domain. I may pull services or revamp the site every once in awhile but the site as a whole isn't going anywhere.
I think the problem is that most technical people aren't business people. GamingMatrix.com is a prime example of a big site run by financially incompetent people. It's been saying "the dream isn't over yet" for months. The site has actually gone under a number of times. The reason is because the idiot running the site thinks they can offer the world to people for free with no ads no nothing. No means to recoup costs. The person running it is absolutely petrified of money. The last time it went under he was trying to bring it back and I asked if he had any plans for covering costs. Nope. I told him he was raising the Titanic just to sink it again. And he did. The owners just don't have enough sense to be able to successfully run a web-site.
Heck, they don't even have enough sense to just scale back the content so they have something to try to attract visitors without killing themselves on bandwidth costs and then build content as revenue justifies it.
I dunno. I guess some people just can't do anything without forcing themselves into bankruptcy rather than finding ways to cut costs without giving up entirely. I was paying $175 a month to run this site. When revenue wasn't justifying cost I changed gears. Now it costs $28 a month. I wonder what kind of mindset it would take to force yourself to pay $175 a month until you were eating out of a garbage can rather than finding an alternate means to host the material?