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Friday 23rd August - SITE CLOSED AFTER 3 YEARS AND 2 MONTHS
Well, this is it. The site has been dormant for quite a while now and the reason for this is because I'm just tired of running it. I'm afraid to say that there will be no more updates to this site (least not proper movie updates). I find these days that updating this site has become well beyond a job and has become a pain. I've also lost alot of interest in the community mainly because the 'buzz' of movie making is simply gone. Also, a great many good people have left and what is left are mainly newbies and stubborn bastards who want nothing else but to annoy everyone else *cough* Andres *cough*.

When I first opened this site it was under the guise "Willsmovies" and just hosted my own movies. Back then I really loved making movies and having a website to showcase them was even better. As the site grew I discovered the community and the site become host to other people's movies. From this point on I kept the site regularly updated for nearly 2 years. By regular I mean updated EVERY week with a big batch of movies. At the beginning I was even updating twice a week. However, as time went on and the site got bigger and bigger, updating began to lose it's fun. Too many movies were sent in and too many were shit. Having to sift through all that crap became really tiresome.

At that point I started getting other people to help out. Jim Weatherby was the first and kept the site running by himself alone for a good 2 or 3 months. After that I took charge again but soon again felt the strain. I then got Harris to take over. Harris did an exceptional job handling the site at it's peak of movie intake. He even managed to put out his weekly "shit movie showcase" which despite it's cheapness, was a commendable effort considering the workload. After that I cam back again and that was really my final stretch. Updates got less and less frequent and it got to the point where I really just hated having to do anything with the site. One of the main things that kept me going was either tweaking the site design or working on a whole new look. Infact, for the last year or so, designing the site has become my main priority since it's the one last thing I still enjoy doing.

Well, more recently I made an effort to get the site on it's feet again with the help of Harris again and some fresh faces. Unfortunately I just haven't been motivated enough to get and keep the ball rolling and so the co-workers have lost interest equally. I don't blame them at all. So that's where the site is right now, and basically I've decided that I might as well let the horse die and be done with it. It'd be nice if someone could keep the site going, but I know it'd have to involve me too much and I just can't be bothered anymore.

I'll gladly be a front to whatever site is the current 'new movies hub' but that's all I will do.

I won't be taking anything down, however, since there's no reason to do so. The archives will remain open for as long as Travis is willing to host the movies.

As for me, well, I'm going to be taking leave from the community. I haven't been on the board for ages and for a long while I've hardly participated and kept up with what's been going on. I came back the other day and saw Andres's pathetic "manifesto" and just thought that this place is no longer somewhere I want to spend my time visiting. The bulletin board used to be a great place to visit. People would post original and interesting stuff and movies were often made and talked about. These days the community has no real purpose. Movie making is just a guise. The BB is nothing more than a chatting ground for crap. Don't get me wrong, there are still some great people in there, but not enough to make it interesting for me anymore.

As for my movie projects, well, I'm afraid they won't be finished either. It's no secret that my latest movie "CC" is blatantly far from finished. Infact, all I have done is half of the intro and half of the intro titles. That's it, and I did all that ages ago. I haven't made anything in 3dmm for ages. The CC preview has slowly (very slowly) been made but that isn't finished to a satisfactory fashion at the moment. I hope to at least finish that (even if I know CC won't come out).

So that's it really. I did have plans to turn this place into a big 3dmm history site, but really, for the same reasons I'm closing the site in the first place, I'm just not motivated enough.

I'll be in touch through email, but don't expect to see me on the BB and don't expect me to read stuff there because I simply am not visiting it at all right now. I know I've been saying for ages how people can't ever 'leave' the community and it's true. I can always come back at any day and I'll be 'back'. Unfortunately, unlike all the tryhard attention grabbing losers who massively publicise their leaving, I will probably make more of a 'leave' than they ever will.

One last thing; I apologise to everyone who's emailed me in the last month or two and had no reply. The reason for this is simply that since the site is dead I just haven't been bothered to answer any emails regarding it. In order to answer them I have to think about sorting the site out and since it's dead, well, I have nothing to say. Again I'm sorry. My inbox got filled up with 100 or so emails and I've just now marked them all as read. If I get anything from now on I will actually read them since I can rest in comfort that the site is closed.

- Will Maltby

Thursday 1st August - SITE BACKUP (AGAIN)
It's the new month and so I can put the site back in it's true form. Hopefully this won't happen again. I didn't need to buy any new webspace this time, but if it gets much worse I might have too.

Anyway, I've also got an update for ya's, but only half of one. Bjorn and Freddy have given me their drama and previews updates so that is what you have. Haven't heard from Harris or Will B-R, but I've been so lazy recently with not replying emails and stuff. It's the summer weather, it turns me into a vegetable.

So yeah, the site is still open, I'll get in touch with the other two about the comedies and action movies. Till next time, kill yourself, aaaaaand each other.

- Will Maltby

Saturday 20th July - SITE TEMPORAILY CLOSED
3dmm.co.uk is now closed till the end of the month due to high bandwidth usage. I am looking at getting some more webspace that can deal with the traffic the site gets. This may happen before the month is up so the site may be backup in a few days. If I can't get this sorted, then it will re-open on the 1st August when I will get the next month's 'allowance' of bandwidth from my server people.

Sorry about this, I didn't think the site would break 1 gig a month just from html usage.

- Will Maltby

Sunday 7th June - SITE OFFICIALLY RE-OPEN !!!
Yes, the site is now officially opens thanks to the kind support by Bjorn, Freddy, Harris and Will BR. All 4 of them will be taking the movies and are each covering a different genre of movie;

Bjorn - Drama movies
Freddy - Previews (yes we're accepting previews action)
Harris - Comedies
Will BR - Action movies

Because of this new arrangement, you MUST now send your movie to the correct person responsible. Movies sent to the wrong person may well get ignored or deleted. If your movie doesn't fall into any category then just send it to whichever is closest. See the "submit movie" section for more info.

Oh yeah, I've also added 2 movies myself just for the hell of it. Nothing much really. When the site updates next week with it's first batch of movies, I'll also release my Cataclysmic Contentment preview.

That's it for now, so yeah, SEND US YOUR MOVIES !!! (or we'll kill you, no seriously, we will, that's a threat, not an idle one...)

- Will Maltby

Thursday 20th June - JUST A LIL UPDATE
Just updating to re-add "Eirik vs. Fredrick" and "Hard to kill" since they were previously removed due to bad links. Also reviewed and uploaded Humourville 4 since I missed it when it was released a month or so ago (presumably). So yeah, that's all really.

Oh yeah, I'm closer to getting helpers for the site as well, which is great. So far I have 3 people I think I'll probably end up going with; good ole Harris, James Ballard, and Will B-R. Nothing's finalised though so if you know you're webpage editing stuff and want to help out, please email me. But please read the "How to update 3dmm.co.uk" guide first, thanks.

- Will Maltby

Wednesday 19th June - ON THE WAY BACK UP
Well, here it is, the first update in a month. Spose you think the site is dead? Wrong, well, it might be, it's up to you. About 2-3 weeks ago I asked for volunteers to help run the site. I got a good response but I just got lazy and had my exams and so I didn't get time to get those helpers sorted out. Well, since circumstances may have changed for those people I'm going to ask again for volunteers (the same people who volunteered before are more than welcome to come forward again, I just didn't want to presume you'd still want to do it at this time). As many people will know by now, I have quite strict guidelines for running the site. So what I'm going to do it post a link for my "How to update 3dmm.co.uk" guide. Just click that link and you'll be taken to a lil help pack I prepared for future 3dmm.co.uk helpers.

If, having read through that guide, you think you have what it takes to help run this site, then please, email me at will@3dmm.co.uk and tell me a little about yourself, thanks.

As I said 2-3 weeks ago, I will be splitting the workload up between 5 people based on genre of movie. So each review helper will only review a certain genre of movie (like 'Action' or 'Drama' movies). This will obviously decrease the workload immensely between helpers and will thus enable them to continue doing updates for longer. Not only this, but it means that the site does not hang on one single person for any given update.

Ok, with that out the way I will give some details on this update. Firstly, there are no movies. Sorry, but as you can see, I'm in the process of getting this sorted. Right, so what have I been working on ?

· Ok, the first thing you'd have noticed is the new site design. It's not far removed from the last, but it makes a nice change and signifies that the site is getting updates again. I've ditched some sections (links, icq listings, and 3dmm tips) because they were a bit unnecessary and updating them just puts extra strain on me. I would like to keep the tips section but really, it's pretty useless aside from the "No CD trick" which I'd removed due to incompletion.

· I've also moved the site history section and rating scale to the "site info" section. I've added a hell of alot of stuff to the site info section include a complete personal record of my time in the community as well as a guide through all the previous site designs along with information on what was going on at the time.

·By now you'll have also probably noticed the addition of the "Top movies" section. This is just my Top 10 best 3dmm movies of all time section I've had in the works for a while now. Eventually I will expand it to a top 50 and will also add a "3dmm classics" section to show all the golden oldies that influence the community in big ways.

· I've also finally moved all the new movies into the main archives. This is just a laborious job that needed to be done. I've also now removed the "sort by director" movie archives since it is way too much hassle to update. I know, I know, it's a great thing and was really useful, but like I said, it just doubles the time it takes to add movies into the archives.

That's about it really. Oh yeah, there's also an 'easter egg' in the new flash menu, though It isn't easy to find, BWAWAWAWAWA - NOT EASY TO FIND !!!! *ahem* yes. Anyway...

So yeah, please read through the"How to update 3dmm.co.uk" even if you're not thinking about offering your help. It gives a good idea of what goes into a 3dmm.co.uk update (bare in mind that it doe not include details on adding the movie names to the archive listing and adding all the new movies to the movie archives. Not that this job will be required of people offering help as I will do this). If you think it's easy work then please by all means contact me and offer your help. 3dmm.co.uk needs you!

Note on CC Preview: It should be out in the next update. I know I've said this a million times but yesterday I finally after months and months got back in working on 3dmm. It's basically complete, I just have a few scene details to add, sound effects, and a scene pre-cacher. So yeah, should be ready by next week if not earlier....

One last note, my apologies to anyone who's email I haven't answered. I left them over my exam period and found nearly 100 emails to wade through so I just marked them all read. Sorry. If you've sent any mail to me, please send it again now as I now regularly checking my mails and so I'll be able to give you a speedy reply.

- Will Maltby

Compatibility issues with Windows XP mean that movies will now be marked with either a "Win 9x" or "Win XP" respectively. Since Windows XP plays movies 10% faster than Win 9x systems there may be sound synchronisation issues when watching a movie made for a different operating system. However, this does not mean that you cannot watch Win XP movies on Win 9x platforms and vice versa. It simply means that there may be playback issues.

3dmm.co.uk is sponsored by Travis. All the movies on this site are infact located on Travis Well's amazing server he runs from his house on a spare computer. Travis is the man and he ownz you. Goto his own website here http://www.3dmm2.com.

All movies posted from now on have been compressed into self extracting rar archives. This makes them very convenient to open and in some cases greatly reduces the file size (relatively speaking). Visit www.rarsoft.com for more info. Older movies are 'zipped' so you will need to goto winzip.com to get winzip which will unzip the files.