Has DentalCom.net Died?
Looks like Marshall White DMD an Administrator at Dental Town has foretold the end of DentalCom.net.
This is what has been up all weekend:
From Dr. Joel Eichen:
Yeah, Justin forgot to pay his bills.
Actually he wrote in one thread that they do not have his new credit card information. He claims he will update, but if he does or he doesn’t DentalCom is in its death throes.
Sue Madden and I each do not want to be the last man (or woman) standing. So when there are few threads we toss up some. Other than us, there are very occasional posts by others. Very occasional.
If it dies, it dies. I suspect its time.
From the looks of their March 2005 log statistics, not much was going on anyway.
From Justin Shafer, Administrator of DentalCom.net:
I am thinking of taking Dentalcom down. I havent yet, because I like the arcade and I like you guys being able to post here. If we dont get more posts, then I may convert this site into maybe an arcade only site, or I may just leave it the way it is.
It would be hard for me to take this board down, but I just might. I removed the news feeds because I feel like its keeping people from posting. If you guys have any ideas let me know. One thing I do not want to do is to remove all of the posts. I am curious as to how we can get people to post instead of lurking. I think If I was going to take this site down, I would have already done it by now.
-Justin
Visits is the main category of interest…
Me thinks the site could have rivaled Dental Town with time…but Justin is not a dentist and frankly did not support the site with his incessant Kiss- Ass posts over at Dental Town.
Anyone game for another site?
Update #1
Now Justin Shafer says he is not taking the site down. Damn, make up your mind?
But, from looking at your traffic WHO CARES?!
Update #2
From Justin Shafer on DentalCom.net: “the more I think about it the more I want to keep it up. I have been wondering about this for the past month or so and I dont think I can actually take it down. Its like creating a robot, and then having to destroy him. I just cant do it. The cost/profit of the site doesnt really mean a lot to me.
Its just odd. The number of posts are going down, but we still have a lot of people lurking. I cannot decide if I should make people register or not.
My girlfriend would get mad at me anyways, she loves to compete in pacman.How have you guys been doing?
Maybe I could create a domain called DentalArcade.com, and then link it to dentalcom.net….
I think I will do that, but how do I tell people about dentalarcade.com? If I told anyone on DT they would accuse me of promoting dentalcom. The counterstrike idea of DT would work better if they included counterstrike source.”
Huh?
So, has Justin Shafer taken the dentalcom.net site down?
Update #1
The site is back up.
I guess the Admin, Justin Shafer, either paid the hosting bill or had another change of heart.