D2OL..anyone remember them?

[TAandy]

Been having my occasional look at the d2ol forum, this was posted on 20th dec.

"All,

After four and a half years, I am leaving The Rothberg Institute. When I started, it was to replace Ken at the tail end of the migration to version 2 of the project. Sengent was our primary code provider while we also had two on staff programmers / chemists with Wolfgang as a project leader. Times sure change.

I?m sure everyone here has read between the lines my frustrations at being the voice of a project without any developers or access to scientists. You deserve better. I was very excited when Adam came on board as a part time programmer; the project now had a person dedicated to fielding the questions of the community and developing new code / patching holes. At that point, I was essentially the person who pressed a power button when Adam asked me to or physically swapped out RAM & Drives as failures occurred ? we just never bothered to change the listed project or forum administrators.

So it comes to pass that as of Jan 1, I will be transitioning to a spin off company and supporting TRI obliquely until (or if) I am replaced. I bid everyone glad tidings and a fond farewell. Happy crunching!

-charles "


pity, really did seem like a good project for a while.
sigh

here

 

[Assimilator1]

What did it do?

And why does him leaving mean the project is ending?

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
What did it do?

And why does him leaving mean the project is ending?

they are(were) searching for cures for anthrax, malaria, smallpox, bird flu.

i'm not saying they are ending, i'm just pointing out they brought in someone, who, by his own admission, had no access to developers or scientists.
and who said, we deserved better.
the Anandtech team put a lot of effort into this project at one time.
think we were number 1 team, and number 1 producer, geoffs?
i may be wrong about those facts, but don't think so

plus

they "never bothered to change the listed project or forum administrators."
is that contempt for your participants?
sounds like it to me.

like i said, pity.
maybe wasn't a good thing, but it was an anandtech member brought me here from d2ol
hehe

 

[Slatzman]

ahhh...the good ole days of D2OL...we did have one hell of a team

I hadn't looked at the forum in years, I think we all lost interest when we felt the developers stopped listening, and apparently they did.

Oh well, such is life, better crunching pastures were around the corner after I left there

Slatz