So... Brickshelf is down. Or, to be precise, has "discontinued operation." No reason has been given.
To be honest, I haven't used Brickshelf in a while. After one whole folder randomly got deleted, and after experiencing one site problem too many, I turned to its sister site, Maj, and have used it ever since. Maj generally runs smoother, and is also not restricted to Bionicle content, which probably explains its popularity.
But even for those who switched to Maj, many still kept galleries of art, MOC photographs and other graphical content on their Brickshelf accounts, as leftovers from the days when Brickshelf was the site for Bionicle-related image hosting. Not all of these were backed up on hard drives. Some of them were irreplaceable digital images which could never be re-scanned or re-photographed.
So... now Brickshelf has discontinued operations, whatever that means for its account-holders. If it means that all that was in there is now permanently gone, this is going to be a terrible day for many.
We'll have to wait and see how this plays out over the next few days.
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