Some time ago i have read at JWFan.net that the webmaster is collecting donations to keep the network alive.

I am not a member over there but i am reading the posts regulary. It seems the end of this network would mean the end of several other fan sites but how many would be affected?

It is always sad to loose a community and especially when it is that big.

Ooh, why is that? Is there more to JWfan.net then just the forum and the news?
Why would it die? As far as I know webspace is not that expensive and if it is your hobby, the time is not wasted.

I doubt that would happen. So it all depends on how many donations they will get?

I agree with Pogel. A web hoster can be pretty cheap. Mine is and it's quite fast too. It changes when you want to use and write your own server-side code. But I don't see why JWFan.net needs that. You can use standard forum software and for the rest you can use static HTML.

They also use their own servers right? Seems unneccessary too.

The biggest german filmmusic site/forum switched to forced donation some time ago. You couldn't post if you didn't pay.
They claimed that nothing would be for free and that they were investing their time and money ect.
Recently, they even made the restriction that you can only read five posts and for the rest you have to register/pay.

I've said it many times (not sure if here ), but the internet has become such a rotten place.

If you ask me, that is a shame. I think we are all here for the fun of it.

There is nothing wrong with helping people out if a site you like is in trouble, but the things you said apply.
You don't have to have your own server (which I think the german site does) to even have a frequently used site. There are very fair prices for even impossible bandwidths, and most companies seem very relieable.
Not to forget, there are is also free webspace, I don't care for ads as long as they are not positioned over the text.

Right now I'm looking for a provider myself, and even a lot of custom solutions are quite affordable.

That German film music site is deceiving and stealing from you. It's even possible nowadays to use free content management software that uses a database and server-side code. You can get anything for free and open-source nowadays. MySQL is a good free database. Apache has free webservers (HTTP server and Tomcat for Java solutions). Here's a list of free content management software:
http://www.la-grange.net/cms

I'm a programmer at a University Hospital and we use as much free and open-source technologies as we can: Java (including free libraries for generating PDF or Charts), Eclipse IDE, XML, Apache servers, you name it! And quite often it's even better than commercial technologies and because it's open-source you can change and add code for yourself. For one thing commercial products are very closed by nature and therefore difficult to link with another product (from another company).

Internet revolutionized the IT sector. Isn't it wonderful that you can get complex software for FREE nowadays?! Who would have thought that would ever happen? There is still hope for the world ;)

So ESB, you work at a hospital? Nice I did it too, but it is 12 years ago

Yes I work at the nr. 1 hospital in my country :proud: I think hospitals are far more interesting to work at than other organizations like banks for instance. Although I work at a scientific department (Medical Informatics), I have now and then meetings with doctors. But I don't see patients. I'm the programmer and database developer of the Dutch national registration for Cardiology and Cardiosurgery. Everyone who gets a bypass, heart valve operation, PTCA (Dotter procedure) or other heart operations comes in our database. An honourful and super job :)

What did you do at the hospital Toby?

So Emile, you like your job. This is great. I admire people who likes their job and do it with passion (like film composers :D).

To like your job you also need some nice women that you can tease, like I do at work :D

Of course :D .

Hi...I'm new here!! :)

But it's more than 1 year that I'm registered there, and luckily it seems that the network will survive!

Andreas, the Administrator, told he found a sponsor who give him the money to save the network.

By the way, I hope this board will grow soon, I read some very good thread but unfourtunately this board isn't still "living" as the JW board.

We just need more people here! ;)

:music: - Forrest Gump (my favourite Silvestri's score. The second is The Mummy Returns)

Good news. If the network can survive this crisis it can survive everything! ;)

It has some moments when there are really a lot of people online and sometimes there is almost no one online, but it is definitely more "living" than one year ago.

The board is very nice though and it is the first and best source of information about two of the greatest composers in Hollywood thanks to Emile! I am sure there will be more and more users!

Yeah, luckily this board seems to be growing...let's hope! ;)

Is that more people Tommy or more people like you? :D

:biglaugh:

Definitely............












..........more people like me! :D

So it's not dead, Jim?


It'll go eventually.

I hope not, i've sank a lot of money into it's excistance

Thanks Stefan, let's hope your big help wasn't made in vain.

Well, I think this is a great news.


Oh...and talking about that board...go to the "General Discussion" section and find some April's Fool jokes...so damn funny!!! :biglaugh:

Looks like the end of the website is inevitable. At least the webmaster andreas isn't willing to continue after 2007 due to a financial and logistic nightmare:

Badly translated from german to english (sorry but I am too lazy to translate the german text myself today - maybe later if you guys want me to).

So, we should prepare for an increase of our number of members by the beginning of 2008. I guess they will all flood the silvestri/howard board and emile has to create a JW message board to keep the mob entertained :D

What I don't understand is why is he hosting everything himself? You can find a good webhoster for $5 a month and get a free forum. I doubt that it will vanish. It would be a true shame if all those posts will be deleted. I wouldn't be surprised if they find a solution.

LOL this is very hard for me to read... :D

Hehe, I see that JWFan.com now has the same IPB forum software that I use ;)

Does JWFan.com work for anybody else?

This is what i get when i try to open the site:

Looks like it completely disappeared after being extremely slow for the last few weeks.

If you leave out the www. the website will get that error.