The Future of Yesterday's Airlines

[LeoMuse747]

Just sent my donation
Richard, I really enjoy all your work and I've spent a lot of time reading through many of your articles. Your work is really important to our hobby! Hope you can find a solution for your website very soon!

PS: Let's keep things polite and easy on this thread, shall we? No more heated replies beyond this point, or i'll have to delete posts and apply temporary ban to members. Sometimes I feel like a kindergarten teacher here

 

[OllieBHaas25]

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Richard, I’ve loved looking through the site and i learned a lot about the hobby from it. I hope you can find a way to save the site…

 

[airbeluga]

I just can second all the positive messages above. Without your work I would have spent much more money for bad models.
And I really enjoy your presentations of livery histories. Thank you!

Gladly sent my donation. I hope you get what you need to keep your website running.

Cheers
Paolo

 

[LeoMuse747]

PS: Let's keep things polite and easy on this thread, shall we? No more heated replies beyond this point, or i'll have to delete posts and apply temporary ban to members. Sometimes I feel like a kindergarten teacher here

 

[DSA02]

Hope it all works out, the website is a useful resource and would be missed, donation made.

 

[keji833]

Hope it works out. I worked as a software engineer for a reputable company in SV before and have developed multiple sites in the past. Although I've largely forgotten how these things worked now, I'd be very happy to still take a look and see what I can do if there are any lingering issues -- feel free to let me know

 

[Ciderman]

Just sent my donation. Keep up the good work, Richard.

Martin

 

[CPHL1011]

Donation sent!!

Thank you, Richard for all your hard work, and for keeping the world of 1:400 in an interesting spot. I for one is enjoying your webside, models review and model comparisons.

All the best

 

[YesterAirlines]

Hi All. Here's an update on attempts to save the website. I wanted to give a massive thanks to the 13 people who have donated so far. Your generosity has been overwhelming and £502 has been raised towards the site migration costs - about 1/5 of the total. I have continued the preparatory work for that and hope to be in a position to proceed in the next few weeks. In the meantime if anyone wants to contribute donations are gratefully received and can be made using the PayPal button on the homepage.

I have continued the separate work of manually copy/pasting blog content across and so far 45 model reviews have been recreated in the new website shell. That's probably about a 5th of the number. I hope to be able to continue to still post new material while undertaking the big copy/paste but the progress of this entire thing depends on work and life factors.

 

[1400_Aircraft_Models]

Sounds like a really shitty situation caused by a company's incompetence... Really frustrating.

Thanks for all the work you put in mate, hope it works out!

 

[josecolme]

He would not be paying someone $3000 just to run a tool. Knowledge and time are difficult things to assign monetary value to.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that to transfer a website the size of Yesterday's Airlines to a new platform at minimal costs (manual copy-pasting everything) is going to be a task so monumental that it won't be worth it. A powerful tool, and people with expertise on the matter are needed to do it efficiently. Something tells me those things aren't cheap. You know what, this is the same thing Richard explained in the article .

Richard's response was harsh, but again, in the article, he explained how he had been looking for a solution for weeks and all the obstacles he had encountered. So you can't blame him for being annoyed at a comment like yours.

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We all know Richard can be an arse at times, but that doesn't take away from all the useful info on the hobby that Yesterday's Airlines holds. I personally think it is in the best interest of the community to keep Yesterday's Airlines alive. Even Richard's archenemies in the hobby have been caught complimenting the bulk of his work.

The math says that it will take about 50 collectors to donate the amount that they would spend on a narrowbody 1:400 model to help Richard cover the bulk of the cost of keeping the site alive.

People donate money for all kinds of things. In many cases, the money goes to some big organization, and nobody sees it again (well, I guess the president of the organization and those close to him might see it). As far as I am concerned, Richard can end up paying 1/2 of the cost and pocket the other ￡1500 to go on a cruise with his wife. Don't many content creators - of varying quality - make a living out of money that people throw at them via Patreon anyway?

This is the first time I've seen Richard actively asking for donations in more than 10 years, and after having put a massive amount of good quality content for our community. To me, he's also presented a good case for it.

He can be an arse indeed. But that is fueled by the passion he's put into all of that amazing work. All of that can't be lost because of an amount we can all together sum up fairly easily. Just added my little bit.

 

[YesterAirlines]

Sounds like a really shitty situation caused by a company's incompetence... Really frustrating.

Thanks for all the work you put in mate, hope it works out!

He can be an arse indeed. But that is fueled by the passion he's put into all of that amazing work. All of that can't be lost because of an amount we can all together sum up fairly easily. Just added my little bit.

Thank you both for your donations - very generous. @1400_Aircraft_Models I still plan on posting the part 3 of the history of 400 scale, but that will now have to wait until there is a new version of the website available.

This week has seen some really good progress on that front and it is looking increasingly viable