Merlin's Portal is down

[tuckeratlarge]

Its a pity when whiny little leechers complain about a free site. I was a VIP member - under a different username ;-) - and I took the site at face value. There was nothing to complain about. Nor would I have wanted my money back.

Hopefully Merlin will recover and not face hardship/divorce.

As Billy Connolly put it "If you don't like the rules, don't play the fecking game"

People are weird on the interwebitubes

[alferret]

Originally Posted by tuckeratlarge

Its a pity when whiny little leechers complain about a free site.

Aint that the truth. There is always a minority that end up pushing that little but to much and spoil it for the masses.

I was great while it lasted Thanks for letting the masses know the score.

[Ramrod]

Indeed. Thanks for that Merlin

[John_bones]

Hope your still checking this thread Merlin, shame it's all gone t@ts up. I know how hard you worked to get the site off the ground initially and how it continued to grow.

Hadn't checked in too often over the last couple of years and was surprised to see it had gone.

Good luck with whatever your doing in future.

John

[Brittdad]

Ok I have been staff there before and Merlin m8.I know you and you of all people need to know as you prob do from me your site went down as you know from ,backstabbing staff there as I know.Ok I got banned for showing what they do with hate mails etc.
Your site taught me all as an nzb poster/Staff member.But of all people do not give up on the good peeps that make a good site with a good heart,Magic well I made them and they are ***** and feeked me over as many do just in it for the money unlike you.You know were I am at so let me you if you wanna be like me an honest guy helping a site with with a hobby.
Lastly sort out ya marriage m8 we had many a convo on that and family first is what we say on our site.Plus good luck for the future if I do not see you again Brittdad

[rabch23]

Originally Posted by merl1n

For The Record

Thought as always i would break the mold like most owners of a site that just vanish.

Most important thing and first thing is to say thankyou to all merlins portal staff past and present, mostly past as without them and there hard work in the early days merlins portal would not have became the site it did, the present site staff at time off going for there unselfish and dedicated work.

Reasons Why?
As zing mentioned above most of the reasons but the final nail was indeed the constant abuse daily for a service we all worked hard at to make it work, database was the major issue in the end and it finally went tits up after throwing massive amount of my own money, countless sleepless nights the decision had to be made to close it. This decison did not come lighlty and after much sole searching and a few chats with trusted friends and staff i let what has my baby go.

I put my life and sole and in the end almost put my marriage of 24 years at risk as did others into merlins portal for almost 5 years and it was time to move on.

In the final days i did transfer money from my own bank account and returned 100+ donations going back as far as six weeks but with all the expenses involved trying to save the site even i have limited personal funds but as a person i felt it was my duty to the members to return as many as i financially could, if i missed you i am sorry but the nature of how the site was financed to keep it free for the mass.

Merlins Portal was a unique site with some unique and fantastic members and i met some fantastic friends whom i will be catching up with sooner or later.

Yes i took 2/3 weeks out to clear my head as it hurt to close the site i loved so much and anyone that actually knew me would not deny me that.

Will i be opening a NZB site again? NO but i may join the new new site as a member and make myself known to Terminator, pnp spreader and co and may help and assist them if required or indeed if they want my help.

I hope this puts to bed the rumours i ran with the money (i wish) in fact the site owed me in the end and 1 month on i am still paying bills for the site but thankfully almost all taken care off now.

Owning and running merlins portal was a blast and will forever hold a special place with myself as will the majority of good members.

Sad things worked out how they did, I miss your site everyday but wish you all the best with whatever project you most definatly will suceed in as we have all experianced your dedication.

Thanks again Merlin for all your hard work and i can honestly saw, had i donated recently and you refunded me, i would have not been amused, I had donated whwn could and it was always worth while.

[cherokee45]

To the poster who said they did not get thier refund, I got mine.

Sterling effort Merl1n, thanks for the memories.

[dan dority]

it was an excellent site for audio books
i will miss merlins.

[Jane0810]

Merlins was the BEST site I ever used. I would like to thank Merlin and all the staff. Merlins will be missed. I hope maybe one day we will see this great site re-born.. Good Luck in everything you do Merlin and I hope life becomes easier for you in the future. Good luck & God Bless

A lot of the members are working hard on building up a new site . You will be more than welcome . It will take time to build up though but its getting there

http://www.jfen.co.uk/

[Rone]

The jfen URL has changed, it wont accept my old password and when i request a new one [tried 2 addies] no mail arrives.

you are not alone I beleive they have been informed through the facebook page

[swoop101]

there is a note to the new site on the front page.

edit: will pm you the link instead

and they have a problem with e-mail at the moment

I can get to the new site just can not log in. There are a few members with the same issue I think

[SnoopZ]

I tried to enter my normal password on the new site but it said failed and said i'd used my login quota(i tried once) and now have to wait 15mins!