I heard it was immediately doing a switchover but due to incredibly aging systems it was a cluster to get everything back up
I know the old owners were bought out by Siemens a few years back; but nothing seemed to change from that. A tiny bit of digging, there is a Tindie blog post by Alexander Rowsell, a HacksterIO article and a soon-to-be-deleted private bin post also from Rowsell that all pretty much say the same things.
To lightly quote the paste bin:
Tindie transitioned to new ownership on April 14. Due to circumstances beyond the control of the new owners, the site was immediately put into maintenance mode.
The intention was, as I originally thought, to do this seamlessly with no downtime. However, once the site was put into maintenance mode and the transition happened. it was decided to take the time to work on the site and get things up to modern standards.
and finally
I know that the new tech team is working hard with the Supplyframe team to complete all the transition steps and ensure things are done properly.
A bit light on details, seems things were perhaps not easily or maybe amicably transferred? The specific wording and situation certainly seem to lean that way.
Personally I really hope Tindie survives and continues on as it has. I haven’t used it very often; but when I have it has been an amazing resource for very niche things I could maybe make, but didn’t have the time/skills and someone else already made a better design for cheaper than I could have.
I actually LOL’d at that
Doubled down
Nice!
Unless they ran into a KYC mess with the payment side of things…
Not everything banking related is as bad as PayPal, but it all sucks… Especially since those organizations are playing superhero with something that should be a right now that there are situations were cash cannot be used.
The regulations that caused this also suck… Anyways, enough venting…
… Dont browse the internet while hungry, first glance was “Well, I guess if they got some greasy chicken fingers and fumbled something…”
One of these days I’ll need to buy and register a phone that I’ll never use just so I can be like first class citizens and be allowed to use financial services, and wire money to relatives, and access all the other sorts of services that are forbidden to anyone without a “valid” phone number. But so far I haven’t found any of the “valid” carriers offering a ten-minutes-a-year plan for SMS confirmations.
Could be a business model.
I’m in.
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House keys 
You do have other options avaliable to you…
@ReverentMachine
“Have 2 implants, LF and HF+NFC, mainly used for access to the multiple sites I manage”
Believe me, I would if I didn’t live with people who have an unreasonable distrust and complete lack of understanding in technology, despite having their entire lives on handheld devices, so I require 2 physical keys.
that’s the sort of stuff @Tac0s will be interested in for Social network clips
Shit, him just posting it to reddit had a measurable impact. Thanks, @Deanbonian !
There are a bunch of very great venues for sharing content that are barred to me because they would be advertising. Sharing on reddit in popular subreddits is huge.
