Someone tell me the Skin.org Story?
Thursday, July 12, 2001 by w00master | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Ok ok... no bedtime story jokes here.. Also, I apologize b/c I know this has been discussed before, but unfortunately for me I don't know the story behind skin.org demise as well as why so many skinners left skinz.org. Could someone tell me what happened?
w00master
w00master
craeonics
Reply #2 Thursday, July 12, 2001 10:54 AM
Reply #2 Thursday, July 12, 2001 10:54 AM
Kenray wrote an article about it: http://www.teknidermy.net/go.php?url=http://www.teknidermy.net/issue4/artskinz.html
vahagn
Reply #3 Thursday, July 12, 2001 10:56 AM
Reply #3 Thursday, July 12, 2001 10:56 AM
okay, at risk of making a mistake about it i'll try and be the first to fill you in on what happened...
basically, from what i know, skinz.org was owned by a business called "eFront" who had a large list of different sites that they used to promote merchandise and whatever (is that right?), so anyhow, about 6 months ago(?) they started to run into financial trouble and then they stopped paying the admins of skinz.org and other sites on their list. There were some odd shinanigans happening with 2 of the main CEO's of the company and their entire chat logs were released onto the internet by a disgruntled employer, exposing the hypocricy of eFront and how they treated the many different sites as a money laundering scam ...
anyhow, skinz.org didn't last long after all that becuase the skinning community have 'moved on' ... some1 at eFront was acting as the admin cuase all the other great people like shoggot, and the thirty4 interactive people had since left due to never being paid ... No-one is really administering the site and it's now just a stagnant place without a community basis.
- that's my interpretation of what happened and how things are - i'm sure some1 around here will be able to add a more enlightening spin on it though -
basically, from what i know, skinz.org was owned by a business called "eFront" who had a large list of different sites that they used to promote merchandise and whatever (is that right?), so anyhow, about 6 months ago(?) they started to run into financial trouble and then they stopped paying the admins of skinz.org and other sites on their list. There were some odd shinanigans happening with 2 of the main CEO's of the company and their entire chat logs were released onto the internet by a disgruntled employer, exposing the hypocricy of eFront and how they treated the many different sites as a money laundering scam ...
anyhow, skinz.org didn't last long after all that becuase the skinning community have 'moved on' ... some1 at eFront was acting as the admin cuase all the other great people like shoggot, and the thirty4 interactive people had since left due to never being paid ... No-one is really administering the site and it's now just a stagnant place without a community basis.
- that's my interpretation of what happened and how things are - i'm sure some1 around here will be able to add a more enlightening spin on it though -
vahagn
Reply #4 Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:01 AM
Reply #4 Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:01 AM
oi, crae you beat me too it - sigh ... (hehe, grr, i try to be the first to reply but i discover that i'm not -after- i submit my post) doh...
craeonics
Reply #5 Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:04 AM
Reply #5 Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:04 AM
Us craes run at the speed of light. So don't worry about it.
w00master
Reply #6 Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:17 AM
Reply #6 Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:17 AM
Thanks everyone for the info.... Now I understand.
w00master
w00master
migellito
Reply #7 Thursday, July 12, 2001 2:13 PM
Reply #7 Thursday, July 12, 2001 2:13 PM
really enjoying last season of buffy and angel, aren't we crae 
hehe Mig!
HeyYou
Reply #10 Friday, July 13, 2001 12:45 AM
Reply #10 Friday, July 13, 2001 12:45 AM
i think we need to also include that the site was "sold" to eFront in the past, but that the exchange of money from eFront to 34i was never completed in full, so infact eFront screwed over 34i in that department also.
treetog
Reply #11 Friday, July 13, 2001 1:05 AM
Reply #11 Friday, July 13, 2001 1:05 AM
Damn e-front demons!
treetog almost in tears
I miss Skinz everyday.
treetog almost in tears
I miss Skinz everyday.
Jafo
Reply #12 Friday, July 13, 2001 2:49 AM
Reply #12 Friday, July 13, 2001 2:49 AM
Truth was....the admins gave me editing powers, got scared, and ran. Everyone doesn't notice the sheer 'coincidence' that just as soon as I became an admin the rug was pulled, the coop was flown, the fan was hit by the......
craeonics
Reply #13 Friday, July 13, 2001 3:32 AM
Reply #13 Friday, July 13, 2001 3:32 AM
Jafo killed Skinz! Let's stake him!
(and those evil tv-demons have stopped Buffy and Angel for the summer and will continue in september. Damnit, who interrupts these things in mid-season!!)
(and those evil tv-demons have stopped Buffy and Angel for the summer and will continue in september. Damnit, who interrupts these things in mid-season!!)
BoXXi
Reply #14 Friday, July 13, 2001 5:15 AM
Reply #14 Friday, July 13, 2001 5:15 AM
Crae: One thing you never told us...... How did you get from the basement of Skinz to the basement of WinCustomize? And who helped you load up the shopping cart with your worldly posessions?
hehe......
BoXXi steps back from the bars......
hehe......
BoXXi steps back from the bars......
BoXXi
Reply #15 Friday, July 13, 2001 5:25 AM
Reply #15 Friday, July 13, 2001 5:25 AM
Doreenosis...... I was poking around in the mummified corpse of Skinz the other day, and I actually managed to download a Talisman theme ("Gatekeeper" by Bob Starck Higgins). I managed to log in and view my stats too, strange eh?.
You know, one thing I really miss about that site is having my stats there on the page as soon as I log in. No thumbnails to load, just the info I want. Ah, those were the days............
BoXXi remembers the thrill of waiting to see if his latest creation had got past the Shogmeister.....
You know, one thing I really miss about that site is having my stats there on the page as soon as I log in. No thumbnails to load, just the info I want. Ah, those were the days............
BoXXi remembers the thrill of waiting to see if his latest creation had got past the Shogmeister.....
craeonics
Reply #16 Friday, July 13, 2001 6:17 AM
Reply #16 Friday, July 13, 2001 6:17 AM
craeonics has got a interdimensional portal in his basement which leads to every damn site out there, or in other words, it's the same basement on every site.
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Reply #1 Thursday, July 12, 2001 10:50 AM