Tristi notizie: Johan vende tutto

[Oli]

Ebbene si, il leader supremo di airliners.net ha deciso di vendere il suo giocattolino.

Dicono che non cambierà niente, ma sappiamo tutti che non sarà così.

Peccato.

[Steman]

Ma davvero? E a chi? A quelli di Google immagino. Ormai si comprano tutti i gioiellini della rete.

Chissa' quanti soldi ha fatto!

[Oli]

Hi all,

As you probably know, Airliners.net keeps growing year after year with more photos, more forum posts, more visitors, more users and more photographers. This is fantastic. I could never in my wildest dreams have imagined this success when I started the site ten years ago.

And what comes with success?? Managing it. And I know you have felt some of the growing pains. There are infrastructure issues � like trying to stay on top of the hardware needs of this site but complexities and the site�s growth have caused outages. What started in my dorm room on one computer is now supported by 25 � and that�s not including all the network gear.

And there are administrative issues. Growing the site, supporting the community and keeping things running takes a big toll on me � All Crew groups have long lists of bugs I need to fix and administrative features I need to add.

The last couple of months I've been thinking real hard on finding a long term solution. We want Airliners.net to keep growing both in numbers and in quality of service to its users and be as strong in 10 years as it is today.

So today, I am happy to announce that we have agreed to be acquired by a company called Demand Media. Don't worry, I'll still be around. I will gradually hand over stuff like management of the hardware, the administrative stuff, programming work and so on. Henrik will also stay so you won't actually see any changes at all, at least not at first, and the changes will be for the better.

Demand Media is not a big company but are experts on what they do, running community sites such as Airliners.net. They have the hardware, the server rooms, and the dedicated programmers to help out with all your programming requests and so on. I came into contact with these guys a few months ago and have been very impressed with what I've seen. Me and Henrik actually went over to Los Angeles (where the company is based) and sat down to meet them face to face. I have no doubts they will be able to help operate the site successfully for many years to come.

This is big news and I realize you will have a lot of questions and some concerns. Please post them below and I will do my best to reply to them.

Thank you all,
Johan


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