I think you misread my post. I don't have any problem with people voicing their concerns about the Login Server. But, there is no need for posts basically saying the project is shit and they are leaving, which is essentially what drakheim was saying.
And no, none of the current members of the EQEmu team are paid for what they do, even from any sort of donations. There are donation links from the main site where people could send money to some of the old devs who aren't even involved in the project anymore, but that is only because the site hasn't been updated in years. And no one sends them money anymore anyway. Doodman has been paying for the current Login Server hosting out of his own pocket for quite a while now as far as I understand.
The recent donation request by KLS was just setup a few days ago and that money will be going directly to paying for the new hosting and nothing else. So, again, not a penny to the team. We don't need or want money for what we do here.
The new mini-login from devn00b and image is not restricted to 20 accounts because they don't know how to remove that restriction, that is something they set on purpose. They could remove those restrictions completely in about 2 seconds. Yes, there new Private and Public Login Servers are cool and are nice to give the community more options, but as soon as the new hosting is in place for the current Login Server, all of our worries will be over. People will quickly forget about the issues with the LS and go back to just enjoying the emulator.
This webite, forums, wiki and even the current Login Server are all parts of the EQEmu project and will soon all be managed by the same group of active team members. We develop the server code and make sure that things are moving in a good direction. Yes, the current Login Server sucks, but that isn't our fault. It has been maintained by doodman for about 2 years now and he has been uninvolved in the project almost that whole time due to being very busy IRL. The plans are that he will be passing it down to a current active member of the team, KLS, who will ensure that everything has maximum uptime possible.
Where things go from there, we will see. I imagine that there will probably be other alternatives and maybe some backup Login Servers going to allow for redundancy at some point. If image and devn00b release their mini-login without the restrictions it currently has, then it shouldn't be too hard to code it so each server can have their own private back door Login Server for when the public one is down. But, from the looks of their site, it seems like they are already planning to start charging for the non-restrictive builds. Personally, once the new hosting is in place, there won't even be a need for a backup, so I wouldn't bother paying for that myself unless I saw a good reason to :P Nothing else with the emu costs money, so I am not really for charging for stuff like that. Again, we will have to see how this all pans out. Shouldn't be much longer before everything is finalized.
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