Dear Stu, Ken, and WeatherCatters the world over,

Quote from: WCDev on March 08, 2025, 06:50:57 PM

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As a further update, these forums will become read-only on the 16th, the wiki will remain, but again read-only and the main web-site will have commenting disabled along with the ability for a user to register. Effectively all read-only.

As a further change, for the time being WeatherCat is free - registration info can be found at https://trixology.com/get-license/
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I am especially sorry to hear about these changes.  Perhaps I shouldn't admit it, but my first experiences with the Internet are now 45 years old.  Back then it was a domain of "gentlemen" where civility was expected of the university staff, government workers and occasional private contractors who were permitted to be part of the then nascent network.

Today, the Internet is a reflection of the wider world and you cannot simply avoid "the bad parts of town."  The bad people can come to you at the best of gigabits per second.  Governments are hopeless ill-suited to cope with this sort of thing.  After-all, they cannot reign in conventional crime for starters.

There has always been a difficult trade-off between the freedoms to act and the protections from those who act badly.  I fear that our world is convulsing over the paradox.

In the end we have lost some of our innocence and will profoundly miss it.

Edouard

Well said, mate!

Dear Stu, Ken, and WeatherCatters the world over,

. . . .
As a further update, these forums will become read-only on the 16th, the wiki will remain, but again read-only and the main web-site will have commenting disabled along with the ability for a user to register. Effectively all read-only.

As a further change, for the time being WeatherCat is free - registration info can be found at https://trixology.com/get-license/
. . . .

I am especially sorry to hear about these changes.  Perhaps I shouldn't admit it, but my first experiences with the Internet are now 45 years old.  Back then it was a domain of "gentlemen" where civility was expected of the university staff, government workers and occasional private contractors who were permitted to be part of the then nascent network.

Today, the Internet is a reflection of the wider world and you cannot simply avoid "the bad parts of town."  The bad people can come to you at the best of gigabits per second.  Governments are hopeless ill-suited to cope with this sort of thing.  After-all, they cannot reign in conventional crime for starters.

There has always been a difficult trade-off between the freedoms to act and the protections from those who act badly.  I fear that our world is convulsing over the paradox.

In the end we have lost some of our innocence and will profoundly miss it.

Edouard

I'm the admin of WXForum.net, and you all would be very welcome to join the forum to continue WeatherCat discussions.

Thank you Ken, that’s very kind, but please make sure you aren’t somehow affected by this rather over-reaching act.

As a further update, these forums will become read-only on the 16th, the wiki will remain, but again read-only and the main web-site will have commenting disabled along with the ability for a user to register. Effectively all read-only.

As a further change, for the time being WeatherCat is free - registration info can be found at https://trixology.com/get-license/

Best regards,
Stu.

I could host the Wiki if Stu agrees.   I'd previously hosted the Cumulus Wiki when the main Cumulus website was shutdown.

I have registered also

Me too.