CGHub is dead. Long live CGHubs!

Quote from Vilham

Its fine to try and create a new community, what isn't fine is the name. Just like that guy calling his stuff kings games, which is blatant attempt at bait clicks, it isn't acceptable and we as a community shouldn't be accepting of it.

Agreed although that isn't a fair comparison. The poster clearly motivated his reasons. Again, the Mapcenter example. The owner of the domain disappeared so we we're unable to retrieve the old domain. We too considered going the posters route just to make it obvious to the community that it still lived. Eventually we decided to go with a new name which unfortunately never came of the ground. I think there's a big difference in trying to save a community or bait clicking. Maybe I'm just biased but this didn't look like a scam to me.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kiril…-for-cg-artists

Quote from knj

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kiril…-for-cg-artists

makes me want to puke.

This is so silly that Im wondering if I'm really sober again

Quote from SpronyvanJohnson

This is so silly that Im wondering if I'm really sober again

• Tries premium service to get money from artists. Fails...
• Shuts downs website overnight without no prior warning.
• Few weeks later, opens kickstarter asking for $100k to bring the website back.
• wut?!

Nextgen you guise... nextgen.

Quote from (HP)

• Tries premium service to get money from artists. Fails...
• Shuts downs website overnight without no prior warning.
• Few weeks later, opens kickstarter asking for $100k to bring the website back.
• wut?!

This isn't that, Shakuro was not responsible of the content, desicions, etc... they were just a service provider : they made a website for a client, client shut down project.

Shakuro put 6 years into CGhub, they want to give it a new birth.

Quote from Em

• Tries premium service to get money from artists. Fails...
• Shuts downs website overnight without no prior warning.
• Few weeks later, opens kickstarter asking for $100k to bring the website back.
• wut?!

This isn't that, Shakuro was not responsible of the content, desicions, etc... they were just a service provider : they made a website for a client, client shut down project.

Shakuro put 6 years into CGhub, they want to give it a new birth.

This does sound reasonable, but there's definitely a very cynical part of me that can see the point HP is trying to make. What evidence do we have that this supposed client even exists? How do we know that this isn't some big ploy designed to prevent Shakuro from going bankrupt? Or perhaps the sudden disappearance was a cover-up because they ran into some serious copyright/hacking issues and had no choice but to dump everything and blame it on a 'client'.

Based on Shakuro's portfolio this does seem unlikely, as they seem like they'd have the clout to get plenty of big clients to keep them financially secure. But I've seen weirder things happen, and what happened with CGHub remains quite mysterious.

Yeah no. I'm seeing more and more groups promoting this too, but really, if there was such a demand for a site like this, why wouldn't they just go ahead and make it, then live off ads and donations? I get that managing operational costs of a website, especially with a lot of traffic, is expensive. But it is not $100k expensive, and the kickstarter does not account for any of the risks associated with it. Maybe it's not a scam, but it's a poor attempt at getting money for something that should not be ushered in through kickstarter, but through the community itself.

I hope nobody here is wasting their money on this.

Does the world really need another website where the same kind of art gets promoted ad infinitum?