Come molti di noi spotters avranno letto nell'Email ricevuta da parte del team di airliners.net, il sito è stato ceduto - se ho ben capito, il mio inglese non è granché - ad una compagnia californiana:
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Hi all,
As you probably know, Airliners.net keeps growing year after year with
more photos, more forum posts, more visitors, more users and more
photographers. This is fantastic. I could never in my wildest dreams have
imagined this success when I started the site ten years ago.
And what comes with success?? Managing it. And I know you have felt some
of the growing pains. There are infrastructure issues like trying to stay
on top of the hardware needs of this site but complexities and the sites
growth have caused outages. What started in my dorm room on one computer
is now supported by 25 and thats not including all the network gear.
And there are administrative issues. Growing the site, supporting the
community and keeping things running takes a big toll on me All Crew
groups have long lists of bugs I need to fix and administrative features I
need to add.
The last couple of months I've been thinking real hard on finding a long
term solution. We want Airliners.net to keep growing both in numbers and
in quality of service to its users and be as strong in 10 years as it is
today.
So today, I am happy to announce that we have agreed to be acquired by a
company called Demand Media. Don't worry, I'll still be around. I will
gradually hand over stuff like management of the hardware, the
administrative stuff, programming work and so on. Henrik will also stay so
you won't actually see any changes at all, at least not at first, and the
changes will be for the better.
Demand Media is not a big company but are experts on what they do, running
community sites such as Airliners.net. They have the hardware, the server
rooms, and the dedicated programmers to help out with all your programming
requests and so on. I came into contact with these guys a few months ago
and have been very impressed with what I've seen. Me and Henrik actually
went over to Los Angeles (where the company is based) and sat down to meet
them face to face. I have no doubts they will be able to help operate the
site successfully for many years to come.
This is big news and I realize you will have a lot of questions and some
concerns. I've therefore setup a discussion in the crew forum where you
can ask questions and have me or Henrik reply. The Demand Media people
will also be there to answer any questions you have:
http://www.airliners.net/discussions/site_related/read.main/62921/
Thank you all,
Johan Lundgren
Founder Airliners.net
http://www.airliners.net
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Se ne discute anche in QUESTO thread dedicato nel forum di a.net.
Ciao,
Chris
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Hi all,
As you probably know, Airliners.net keeps growing year after year with
more photos, more forum posts, more visitors, more users and more
photographers. This is fantastic. I could never in my wildest dreams have
imagined this success when I started the site ten years ago.
And what comes with success?? Managing it. And I know you have felt some
of the growing pains. There are infrastructure issues like trying to stay
on top of the hardware needs of this site but complexities and the sites
growth have caused outages. What started in my dorm room on one computer
is now supported by 25 and thats not including all the network gear.
And there are administrative issues. Growing the site, supporting the
community and keeping things running takes a big toll on me All Crew
groups have long lists of bugs I need to fix and administrative features I
need to add.
The last couple of months I've been thinking real hard on finding a long
term solution. We want Airliners.net to keep growing both in numbers and
in quality of service to its users and be as strong in 10 years as it is
today.
So today, I am happy to announce that we have agreed to be acquired by a
company called Demand Media. Don't worry, I'll still be around. I will
gradually hand over stuff like management of the hardware, the
administrative stuff, programming work and so on. Henrik will also stay so
you won't actually see any changes at all, at least not at first, and the
changes will be for the better.
Demand Media is not a big company but are experts on what they do, running
community sites such as Airliners.net. They have the hardware, the server
rooms, and the dedicated programmers to help out with all your programming
requests and so on. I came into contact with these guys a few months ago
and have been very impressed with what I've seen. Me and Henrik actually
went over to Los Angeles (where the company is based) and sat down to meet
them face to face. I have no doubts they will be able to help operate the
site successfully for many years to come.
This is big news and I realize you will have a lot of questions and some
concerns. I've therefore setup a discussion in the crew forum where you
can ask questions and have me or Henrik reply. The Demand Media people
will also be there to answer any questions you have:
http://www.airliners.net/discussions/site_related/read.main/62921/
Thank you all,
Johan Lundgren
Founder Airliners.net
http://www.airliners.net
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Se ne discute anche in QUESTO thread dedicato nel forum di a.net.
Ciao,
Chris
