shebashetan7
Well-known member
Hi everyone,
From Trainz's early beginnings to the present, has attracted the ire of many people of different backgrounds from everywhere in the world. Many of them spent their free time producing quality content for the game. Quite many veterans of Trainz have been with us since the early days of UTC, however some, especially Magicland and Marlboro, eventually move on to pursue other interests.
Now speak of that let's talk about the 3rd-party websites owned by Trainz content creators. Many of these sites, like Jointed Rail, Ocemy, and RRMods, are unlikely to vanish anytime soon due to their prominence in the Trainz community, and close ties with N3V because of the partnership program.
Others, such as Virtual Railroader, and Protrainz, are no longer with us today. They are now gone because off link rot; the owners of those websites stopped paying their dues to the hosting service, and thus the sites have been closed and pulled off the web, because they were no longer being payed for. Many of these links are now dead, or redirect to some boring landing page with a template-style background bulked up with ads and a notification announcing that the domain is on the market.
It is quite frustrating while hunting around the net, trying to catch missing 3rd-party dependencies for a route, when your search on Google and the Kuid index yields nothing, leading you to think that the dependencies were sourced from a site that is no longer active on the web, and it's links will generate errors, or redirect you to a virus, or a page full of ads.:mop:
From Trainz's early beginnings to the present, has attracted the ire of many people of different backgrounds from everywhere in the world. Many of them spent their free time producing quality content for the game. Quite many veterans of Trainz have been with us since the early days of UTC, however some, especially Magicland and Marlboro, eventually move on to pursue other interests.
Now speak of that let's talk about the 3rd-party websites owned by Trainz content creators. Many of these sites, like Jointed Rail, Ocemy, and RRMods, are unlikely to vanish anytime soon due to their prominence in the Trainz community, and close ties with N3V because of the partnership program.
Others, such as Virtual Railroader, and Protrainz, are no longer with us today. They are now gone because off link rot; the owners of those websites stopped paying their dues to the hosting service, and thus the sites have been closed and pulled off the web, because they were no longer being payed for. Many of these links are now dead, or redirect to some boring landing page with a template-style background bulked up with ads and a notification announcing that the domain is on the market.
It is quite frustrating while hunting around the net, trying to catch missing 3rd-party dependencies for a route, when your search on Google and the Kuid index yields nothing, leading you to think that the dependencies were sourced from a site that is no longer active on the web, and it's links will generate errors, or redirect you to a virus, or a page full of ads.:mop: