Hello everyone!
As you may have heard,
we have closed the SPEX for a complete redo. We chose to do this because any activity that happens between now and the relaunch will be lost. In fact, all activity on the SPEX thus far will be lost. Although this may be disappointing, fear not! It will be worth it. There has been minimal use of the SPEX thus far, so not much will be lost.
The new SPEX (which will still be a beta exchange for us) has a hopeful launch timeline of 1 week. Though, technology sometimes screws up and RL can get in the way. Stay tuned for updates here. The new SPEX will be on a temporary hosting account, and will be different from our current host of the SPEX. The current host, Zymic, is pretty much useless to us at this point.
Blakesterville, a member here at Simopsis as well as administrator at Simmania, will be helping me with the development of the exchange. Once we make considerable progress, we will open it up to a beta test.
The SPEX will be an actual downloads system now (HURRAY!) instead of a forums-based system. As to what software it will be running - that's a surprise. As is the new URL.
Thanks for your patience everyone during this process. I was hoping to just make improvements to the current incarnation of the SPEX, but that just became impossible with our host - and moving the existing site is too much work for the content we currently have there. Besides, our new system may not use SMF... [/sayingtoomuch]
So please stay tuned for information about the "NEW" SPEX (BETA) over the next little while. We're very excited to get this going.
Thanks, everyone!
-simlink
Simopsis Webmaster & Founder