Guild Launch News
ANNOUNCE: Pulling Thumpers Ventrilo Spy
I sincerely hope this is temporary, but we have had to pull Thumper's ventrilo spy from our widgets. We certainly like to work with people out there who are making cool things and bring them to you guys, but he has apparently hit his bandwidth limit. The unfortunate side effect is that his host uses a redirect on suspended accounts as their notification which caused some of our sites to redirect. Needless to say, that is unacceptable to us.
We apologize if this caused any inconvenience, we certainly want to keep linking and facilitating outside widgets written by other people, but when we do so our customers can be effected by those services shortcomings. In this case, bandwidth.
We will be adding a notice to any widget that relies on external data that says that the external site may effect the performance of the widget and thus your site. This is the case for RSS feeds, this widget, and a few others.
We are working to bring this particular Ventrilo code in-house and possibly sponsor Thumper's Ventrilo service if need be so that we can continue to provide this very nice functionality but have control of the bandwidth.
-Stephen
We apologize if this caused any inconvenience, we certainly want to keep linking and facilitating outside widgets written by other people, but when we do so our customers can be effected by those services shortcomings. In this case, bandwidth.
We will be adding a notice to any widget that relies on external data that says that the external site may effect the performance of the widget and thus your site. This is the case for RSS feeds, this widget, and a few others.
We are working to bring this particular Ventrilo code in-house and possibly sponsor Thumper's Ventrilo service if need be so that we can continue to provide this very nice functionality but have control of the bandwidth.
-Stephen