A few old mags (for nostalgia’s sake)

Eric said:
Well I guess when the Shopify money runs out they will die. You'd hope if it was sadly down to death that the executor would be able to notify them to take down the sites. I wonder how many sales they are doing without anyone knowing. Hopefully someone might pick up some of the IP, they had some nice models.
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This is in fact, something which kinda worries me a bit. In a way. If you, for example, suddenly died, do you have people who know who to contact and how to handle various online accounts and stuff? the old day where you got a piece of paper as a certificate when you brought a domain address (ah, that takes me back) so you could have something like other legal documents is long gone..

Since there appears to be no contact to the guy, it's hard to see someone being able to pick up the models.. which is a real shame.
 
ManicMan said:
This is in fact, something which kinda worries me a bit. In a way. If you, for example, suddenly died, do you have people who know who to contact and how to handle various online accounts and stuff? the old day where you got a piece of paper as a certificate when you brought a domain address (ah, that takes me back) so you could have something like other legal documents is long gone..
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Assuming that you have an up-to-date will - and if you don't, get one ASAP - your solicitor should be pushing you to complete a digital inventory. They should also be suggesting that you arrange lasting power of attorney naming some poor bugger to handle your affairs if you can't. These two things should allow your chosen one(s) to clean up your digital footprint.
 
In theory, yeah but in practice it rarely seamed to work out.. I do know of a couple of nice websites where they have been kinda turned into a 'museum' to keep alive what the creator did for them, so why nothing new, they keep them alive and ticking over. But trying to remember and list ALL your online accounts and stuff.. and then being at the age you want to make a will or be bothered with such thing? Solicitors are nice to help but as long as you don't have people who wanna fight, a basic will would probably do.. anyway.. this is getting abit doom and gloom.
 
The idea of a digital inventory is to make things easier for your attorneys or executors and you only need to include the important stuff. Without legal power of attorney or a will, things will be difficult. Many if not most organisations will point blank refuse to enter into discussion without them.

Shit happens even to young people. If you care about your stuff, family and friends, I strongly advise getting everything in place before it's needed.
 
Straying still (ahem a mod will be along any moment) on one larger forum we host we do mark the accounts of those we know have died. The accounts remain and can be accessed by whoever may have the login (often the family), but loose posting privileges and obviously don't indicate they are "online" anymore and so forth. That site is about 25 years old now and we've 17 known members who have passed. There are probably others we don't know about, the membership is about 30k, but probably with only a few thousand actually active in any real sense.
 
Yeah, remember that! Amazeballs. Games used to definitely be deathier - I never achieved better than a 5th lvl Paladin in AD&D
 
Can one up you on the old Warpstone Fanzines though! ;)

And these Hogwash flyers.
 

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Seems like many of us live in places full of combustibles. Make sure you keep your escape routes clear of clutter, you inveterate hoarders!
 
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