Gaming Networks Turmoil 5

Seems we have our first casualty in the web wars of 2001. According to a post by Lowtax (on his now down once again forums) Somethingawful will be closing its doors in the near future. According to the post EFront (his host/advertiser) has announced that they wont be paying anyone at all this month. Not the first time SA has gone through something like this but possibly the last:

eFront has just announced that since they have no money, nobody will be getting paid until at least February 19th. As it stands right now, I am planning on closing this site at the end of next week and abandoning it forever. Thanks for everybody's support and emails, but I'm not going to be accepting donations and I don't plan on moving to a subscription / fee-based service. It's been fun being screwed by various networks, but I'm sick of it. In the 13 months I've been doing this site, I haven't been paid for 6 of them, and I can't stand it any more. I'm explaining this on these forums because I owe it to you guys to inform you of the situation in the future of this site and the network it's on. Unless I post a follow up topic saying the situation has changed, plan on SA's demise by the end of next week. -Lowtax