I am certainly sorry to hear Lynn22's site is no more, it's never a good thing to see a project that someone has put a lot of time (and in many cases money) into collapse. Unfortunately I am squarely in the group that is mainly to blame, due primarily to time constraints and a desire to put 100% into a single project rather than doing a half-assed job on a number of different projects. Recently I have been focussing on the MBE project and to avoid the temptation of other contests, team projects etc. I have had to put blinkers on. Frankly, I have let down enough people through not delivering on promises, mainly through biting off more than I could chew. With the exception of this site, where I will always lurk in the (vain?) hope of seeing further developments to Anim8or, I have had to stay away from most other forums, which is very much to my own detriment as there is wonderful work being done.
I deeply respect those members of this and other communities who give freely of their time and money to assist the community, whether it be through site hosting, tutorial creation or admin duties, and I sincerely hope that such enthusiastic and generous souls continue this tradition, in spite of the lack of Anim8or progress, and I certainly encourage all new Anim8or users to make the most of all available resources. I cannot possibly quantify the benefits I received from contributing to the old Animanon site when I was in a position to do so and it would be a sad day indeed if such resources were no longer available.
There is a larger world out there than this forum, as much as I love Anim8or, unfortunately it just got a little bit smaller with the loss of Lynn22's site. For my own lack of support of her excellent site I am truly sorry, our loss is the DAZ site's gain.
(Also: totally agree with Headwax on the statement: "There's nothing wrong with anim8or. Even if Steve lets the community die it doesn't detract from the brilliant software he has made.
And it doesn't detract from the hundreds of modellers/3d people he must have helped launch on their Careers who I'm sure would thank him if they weren't too busy .....". I couldn't agree more, Anim8or will remain an excellent modelling tool with some really brilliant workflow ideas, Steve should be enormously proud of what he's built.)
Cheers also from Oz.