Brickshelf gone for good?

I found this after doing some researching on the issue:

• In response to a question about why it was down and whether or not people could recover pictures:

If Kevin would need Peeron to help with that, it can be done.  Keep in mind that
Brickshelf proper was a *huge* bandwidth hog - I don't remember the exact
numbers, but it was multiple TB/mo.

Dan
 

• I Also Found this on the same site (news.lugnet.com)

This is not directed at Tim, but rather some of the whiners that responed to his
post above...

When I first saw that BrickShelf was down, I was all gung-ho to see what I could
do to help bring it back up.  As the host for Classic-Castle, I do have have a
dedicated server and excess bandwidth, so some help could have been provided.

Now, after seeing the reaction here and elsewhere, I am rapidly starting not to
care if you whiney vultures ever get your photos back.

Kevin provided a basically free service to everyone for YEARS.  Everyone used it
without much thought tot he costs involved.  Sure, he could have handled this
latest episode better, but for now none of us know the circumstances involved.
I know that *I* would certainly have grown tired of supporting a site for a
bunch of ungrateful users.

And as for the supposed "Lego Community"?  Useless.  Instead of being a true
community and banding together to help save a pillar of the community, what to
we get?  Personal attacks on Kevin and a bunch of whining.

Do something or quit your complaining.

Troy

I don't have any answers myself, this is just what i found elsewhere online.

aaahhhh my world has been plunged into chaos, thismorning i opened my internet window only to find that my homepage was gone and there was a breif note with to explination of the shutdown. im verry annoyed as there didnt seem to be any warning whatsoever, it would have been nice if we had been told prior so we could back up our files. i have lost some of my favourite decals, never to be seen again. ( i know i should have backed them up).

whatever the reason for brickshelfs closing down, cost of running or personal reasons i am still annoyed that there was no warning, just a sudden dissaperance of what i think was one of the best lego customiser sources on the web.

if kevin needed help he should have asked, i would have donated money to save that site, as im sure a few of you fellow brickmodders would.

now i am forced to use maj or some other site, oh woe is me...

today is a black day for the lego community.

That seems to be a bit of a harsh response from Troy, of course we are going to whine, I must have lost dozens of photos as my computer's hard drive has been wiped so many times, as has my camera. And to the lack of appreciation thing, I never even found out who the heck owned that site, being why I took it for granted. I'm not trying to make a personal attack here but a warning would have been nice.

I loved brickshelf as it's simplicity was superb, it took about a second to load anything, now I guess none of you will never see work anymore, I hate creating accounts on stupid websites I don't neccisarily need.