I posted on April 14th that the Message Community Forums had been taken down April 13th and how sad it was for many of us who had "grown" up and grown cyber friendships over the years on those forums.
Unfortunately in a case of bad timing, PC Crafter decided to perform regular Maintenance on their Servers, beginning on the afternoon of April 22, and many who went to the site and saw the Server Error message of course ASSUMED that the Site was also gone for good.
I personally wasn't in a panic, and knew that they had probably chosen Easter weekend as there wouldn't be a lot of traffic to the site or it just happened to be the time that was in their regular maintenance schedule.
So I waited till late this morning to see if indeed it would be back up...and it was, none the worse for wear.
There seems to be NO Changes to the Site, they still have yet to release any new Clipart Collections for the year 2011. I have read that Provo Craft (the mother ship of pcCrafter) has laid off folks recently and they are still focused on development and promotion of their Cricut line of products.
I have no idea how long the actual Clipart selling side of their Business will be in Business. Hopefully the Company will make a formal announcement if such a decision is made to Close that portion of Provo Craft. http://www.pccrafter.com
**Update to this post 12/20/2011 - PCCrafter.com announced on their website in early Dec 2011, that they will indeed be CLOSING UP SHOP on Dec. 31, 2011.
See my post from April 14, 2011 which has information about the new message forum that hugsister Lynne a.k.a Blondemoments created for former pccrafter.com community message forum members
http://chocolateonthekeyboard.blogspot.com/2011/04/so-sad-pccrafter-messageboard-community.html
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteSad...
so many of the creatables i need for my new pc are no longer avaliable and that is a bummer.
do you know of ANYWHERE where i can get my hands on COLOR ME KIDS by Amy dott ?? they no longer sell it. I found Amy Dott Harmner on Facebook and asked her...but she was not very helpful. at this point i would
pay anything for it!!
Hi Jackie,
ReplyDeleteNo I don't know of anyplace that may be selling the old CD of Color Me Kids. You can try Ebay. Over the yrs some gals did sell their pccrafter CDs - but I haven't read online of any recent sales. The hugsisters that used to visit the now gone pccrafter forums, now meet over on the new Hugsister message forums that was created in Dec 2010.