What's happened to TextDrive?

#1

Post by billturner » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 2:52 PM UTC

What's happened to TextDrive?
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Re: What's happened to TextDrive?

#2

Post by oriste » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 3:32 PM UTC

Damn good question! The answer will give rise to a new expression: "I got deanallened!"

Re: What's happened to TextDrive?

#3

Post by jacquesct » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 9:07 AM UTC

oriste wrote: post #2

Damn good question! The answer will give rise to a new expression: "I got deanallened!"

Hopefully Dean will fill you in. I have still not received a cent from Dean. :(

Re: What's happened to TextDrive?

#4

Post by boombooo » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 3:57 PM UTC

jacquesct wrote: post #3

oriste wrote: post #2

Damn good question! The answer will give rise to a new expression: "I got deanallened!"

Hopefully Dean will fill you in. I have still not received a cent from Dean. :(

Not ONE CENT for all/any of the work you've done?!?!?!

Re: What's happened to TextDrive?

#5

Post by jacquesct » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 8:12 PM UTC

boombooo wrote: post #4

jacquesct wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hopefully Dean will fill you in. I have still not received a cent from Dean. :(

Not ONE CENT for all/any of the work you've done?!?!?!

Sad but true.

Re: What's happened to TextDrive?

#6

Post by billturner » Sun, Mar 02, 2014, 12:26 AM UTC

jacquesct wrote: post #5

boombooo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not ONE CENT for all/any of the work you've done?!?!?!

Sad but true.

That's a horrible shame.

Re: What's happened to TextDrive?

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Post by jacquesct » Sun, Mar 02, 2014, 3:01 AM UTC

billturner wrote: post #6

jacquesct wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sad but true.

That's a horrible shame.

Was told the other day that "Well, we’ll settle up as soon as I can". Not sure that day will ever arrive. :/

Re: What's happened to TextDrive?

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Post by oriste » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 2:09 PM UTC

I had posted a (maybe historically last) message on the forum just before it went down. In it I referred to arvixe.com as a potential replacement. I have no affiliation, but it looks nice, fast support response, lots of packages, cPanel (unfortunately), active twitter account @arvixe. If you guys are still looking, check them out.

Re: What's happened to TextDrive?

#9

Post by yoshaki » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 5:51 PM UTC

Looks like you can update your post again.

http://discuss.textdrive.com/

- - - As anyone looking for decent support or even useful information over the past few months can attest, the revival of TextDrive has not been a success. What began in mid-2012 as an exciting challenge fuelled by good intentions and lean resources quickly turned into a cleanup project with almost no resources. It is disappointing to report that after a year and a half of uphill battles and unimagined setbacks, after several costly efforts to regroup and find another way, options to keep TextDrive growing have run out, and we will cease operations on the 14th of March, 2014. For those who wish to know, details of what went wrong will be made available once shutdown operations have completed. Sorry to have let you down. Dean - - -

Re: What's happened to TextDrive?

#10

Post by oriste » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 6:42 PM UTC

jacquesct wrote: post #3

oriste wrote: post #2

Damn good question! The answer will give rise to a new expression: "I got deanallened!"

Hopefully Dean will fill you in. I have still not received a cent from Dean. :(

And that is probably the most scandalous part of the whole story. I don't want to hear any Dean Allen or Jason Hofmann apologists, whatever you do and whatever your troubles, you do pay those that work for you. I also like to say a big THANK YOU to Jacques at this occasion. I sometimes grumbled, but you kept the ship floating for as long as you could afford. Thanks for that.