After years (decades?) all BRL websites (www.blitzbasic.com – www.blitzmax.com – www.monkey-x.com) are quitting.
A sad news.
This is the Mark’s Sibly post on Facebook
Hi everyone,
A slightly sad update…
After careful consideration, and in order to concentrate more fully on monkey2, I have decided to downsize Blitz Research operations. In particular:
* MonkeyX will be completely open sourced and the Monkey-X.com site will be closed.
* Blitzbasic.com will be closed.
* The monkey2 site will remain, as will the monkey2 Patreon page.
My plan is to continue working on monkey2, but to also enhance my income by creating things with it to be sold commercially such as an IAP module for mobile, a simple ‘Maplet’ style modeller for the upcoming 3d module, and hopefully even a game one of these days!
I would urge monkeyx users to switch to monkey2 if possible. It is very similar to monkeyx, and is by now just about ‘feature equivalent’ with it. Monkey2 does not alas generate html5 code so you’ll still need MonkeyX for that, but MonkeyX will still be around.
Website closures will probably happen before the end of the month. This is definitely a bummer. BB.com in particular has a long and colorful history and is IMO still a great programming site. But the truth is BRL isn’t even making enough money these days to keep the sites running. I’ve been hosting them on a dedicated server which is not cheap, and while I guess I could move them to a smaller, cheaper server, I think it’s time to let them go. I’ve been coding and hosting community websites for over 10 years now and I feel like I’ve had enough of that for a while.
All in all, I just want to get back to hardcore coding! I’ve been having a great time working on monkey2 and, even if it doesn’t turn out to be as popular as stuff I’ve done in the past, I don’t really care if I can manage to make a living out of it!
People is migrating on other forums
Blizbasic – Bliz3d – BlitzMax user’s new home : www.syntaxbomb.com
monkey2 is moving on a new server http://monkeycoder.co.nz
Skid has started to copy the content of BlizBasic.com (I already download it) of the code-archive and gallery. I suppose manuals and forum – will be saved in some days.
A milestone in programming (BRL and it’s own product) can’t be left to ‘fade away’ in that way.
Really a bad day. It’s like losing home after a natural disaster.
