jakerupert Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 I dont know if anbody here used it, but this is sad news: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php...age=1&pp=15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted April 15, 2014 Admin Share Posted April 15, 2014 It sure seems like problems like this use to be smaller in scale (small, personal websites no longer being maintained so their links go dead) but we appear to be entering a new era when larger sites suddenly and without any notification fall off the grid. I don't know the situation at Cghub but it seems to me the proprietors have opened themselves up to legal charges for not carrying out the terms of service paid. In other words it might not be enough to simply refund subscriptions where years of relationships have been fostered and digital information has been cultivated and created. But now we entered the realm of intellectual property and this is where the truth will out only once the legal side kicks into gear and... assuming any of the complainants have something worth recouping at stake. In the real world sites rely on a variety of real world (as opposed to imaginary) revenue streams. But what if those streams dry up, falter or fail? I must assume that prior to this 'sudden' decision there was considerable loss of revenue (or at least an acknowledgement that the current trajectory was not sustainable) or else the Cghub site would still be there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted April 15, 2014 Hash Fellow Share Posted April 15, 2014 Everything has to end but so many things in our life haven't ended yet so it seems odd when something does end. I got curious about what the longest-lived company still in operation might be. Turn out there's a list! List of Oldest Companies The top one on that list, construction company Kongō Gumi, founded 578, apparently failed in 2005 but the next one, Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hotel founded in 705, is still in business. Both in Japan. The only longer-lasting organization I can think of might be the Pope and the Vatican structure that run the Catholic Church. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
largento Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 I saw a message that apparently was briefly on their Facebook page. They said they were shutting down for personal reasons and that they were private and unrelated to to technical or business concerns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markw Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 This was posted some 5 hours ago now on their Facebook page. Looks to me from point NO.1 like the CGHub we all saw wasn't the actual company running things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakerupert Posted April 16, 2014 Author Share Posted April 16, 2014 This list is really interesting and shows that the economical succsess of certain countries is build on continuity and expirience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markw Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 I've been meaning to post a link here to CGHub's successor for some time now and keep getting distracted by other forum posts and then forgetting to do it! Any way if you haven't already found ArtStation's site yet, you can find it here: http://www.artstation.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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