Is Code Monkey Publishing kaput?

[DumMetlHed]

Nylanfs since you have a Merton Monk's email maybe you could suggest that they update the "under construction" page with something like what he mentioned in the email to you and maybe a list of things that are still being worked on with the promise of a full State of the Monkey once the website issues are straightened out.

Or if they don't want to go that in depth maybe just a little note near the bottom to let people know they are alive along the lines of

06/09/2009 Still trying to beat the website software into submission with the WBoP.

every once in a while if this takes too much longer with whatever the date of the "post" is

That way people that stop by and see the same graphic up for the last few weeks don't just give them up for dead.

I don't know, you may not feel comfortable suggesting to them what they do and I could understand that I'm not trying to tell them how to run their business either. I just know that warrior poet seemed to think they were done with and I was starting to think the same way, (based on the lack of updates on RPGF and other projects followed by a prolonged downtime of the site itself) and if we were thinking like that I'm sure others that didn't think to check EnWorld for monkey info may be thinking that too.

 

[RogerWilco]

The last time I visited their site I left a post that it looked void of activity (last news like 4 months old), until you got a hint from the "tracker thingy" and got yourself a new forum account and only then could you see the forums and know they were alive.

Now I'm not even getting that, and I end up here.

It's typical for the monkeys, but by now 99.73% will have assumed they are no longer operational in any shape or form.

Their inability to maintain and backup a site has always boggled me, especially because they presumably are able programmers given their ambition level with RPGT. And I do have a clue about what it means to maintain such a site: www.conclave.cc

Thanks Nylanfs for providing the update. This thread is now the second hit in google if you go looking for CMP.

 

[Nylanfs]

Apparently the site looks fine on Rob's local machine, and he's trying to figure out why it doesn't seem to work properly on the network. Should be back up shortly. -Bryan

Just got this this morning.

 

[iwarrior-poet]

It is still down.

 

[Nylanfs]

Just checked and it's kinda up, looks like Rob has a VERY generic format in the process of being installed. The forums aren't back up yet though.

 

[iwarrior-poet]

Looks like they are down again. Around a month now. Disappointing.

 

[Vascant]

In a strange way, I have to ask.. Does it matter? As far as I can remember you have never had a nice thing to say about them..

 

[iwarrior-poet]

Not true.
When CMP started off I was a huge supporter. I posted regularly on their boards and other boards with very positive messages. I was so psyched about the pending RPGF that I bought $200+ of PCGen datasets---largely on the promise of getting those datasets converted to RPGF datasets when it came out. I convinced my gaming group to make similar purchases. Then we waited... and waited... and waited...
The last two years have seen them break promises, mismanage their website and fail to provide any timely info or updates.

 

[Vascant]

Not true.
When CMP started off I was a huge supporter. I posted regularly on their boards and other boards with very positive messages. I was so psyched about the pending RPGF that I bought $200+ of PCGen datasets---largely on the promise of getting those datasets converted to RPGF datasets when it came out. I convinced my gaming group to make similar purchases. Then we waited... and waited... and waited...
The last two years have seen them break promises, mismanage their website and fail to provide any timely info or updates.

Two years? You have been on your Anti-CMP crusade for longer then that.

 

[iwarrior-poet]

Possibly.
The whole process has taken so long, and has been so frustrating, that I have lost track of time. How late is CMP on producing RPGF? Three years? Four years? Sure---they always had the caveat of 'not laid in stone so don't hold us to account'--- but seriously now. They are WAY overdue. And then they took on Blackmoor when they hadn't even produced any info/progress on RPGF?
Bad management.