Kevin has saw fit to take down the "merger" proposal that he originally posted on hordelings.  I guess as people actually started to read it and realize it was really a migration plan (as it is titled), they started to feel a bit mislead by Jai and Kevin.  My favorite line of the whole document was the last line:

"We expect data migration to begin by June 5th, 2006 and be complete by June 12th, 2006."

I was expecting this to happen as I knew once people started to actually read what I read, many would feel the same way about it, so fortunately I made a PDF of it before Kevin took it down.  Here's a link to it:

http://www.maxminis.com/themigrationplan.pdf

I stopped the "merger" proposal, which would have had the following consequences:

  a) maxminis.com would cease to exist as we know it; instead it would be redirecting to hordelings
  
  b) features available now to us that currently only appear on maxminis (forum features, chat, trade search, blogs, polls, dreamblade game, etc ) would cease to exist.  Kevin could add some of them to hordelings, but its unlikely he would add all of them or that they would work the way they work on maxminis.
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  c) You would now be using hordelings.  If you didn't like the hordelings interface, you wouldn't be able to go to maxminis instead.  You would no longer have a choice of sites to visit.

Those two documents are 100% different for a reason.  The first was the merger plan.  The second is the CURRENT roadmap for hordelings once we figured out the merger was no longer a possibility.Â

You can attempt to state that they are different versions of the same document etc, but they are not.  The second has nothing do with maxminis others than trying to please those of us that were once here that left.Â

As for your accusation that we would have no chat, dreamblade game etc, we didnt have those and most of us didnt ask for those.  We always had a chat, it was called IRC.  The dreamblade game still has me worried that you are going to bring the wrath of WoTC/Hasbro lawyers down on fan sites since you felt the need to post stats on it.  These were not things that we had to miss if there was a merger.  All we wanted was a better community.

Still alot of questions left to be answered.  Alot of them I really want to see answered in particular those posted by Wayne in a simple yes/no format.  You wanted us here.  You named me as one of the people that have left with bad blood.  Answer all the questions and not just the convient ones.

 

I've been following this thread closely with the hope that it would heal some rifts, but we only seem to be moving further and further apart here.  My goal here is to understand and to move on, so please don’t take my comments as an attack on anyone.

The first document "themigrationplan" appears to be the original proposal to merge the two sites.

The second document, "migrationplanswap", is the strategic plan for Hordelings which was posted after you rejected the merger proposal (dated 7/23/06).  

Given that the original proposal has been rejected and Hordelings is moving forward without a merger with Maxminis, to me it seems reasonable to take down the first proposal (it's essentially a dead document) and put up the new strategic plan.  Furthermore, see the following quote:

Kevin clearly feels that the merger plan they proposed was being quoted out of context so he pulled it down.

So I'm not really clear on how doing that makes things worse than you thought.  Based on the explanation you've given thus far, I think I understand your reasons of rejecting the original proposal, but I don't see what the objection or concern is here.

 

Respectfully,

LM

[EDIT: I didn't see the host's most recent post when I composed this, although I'm still not entirely clear on the problem.]