We sincerely appreciate all the kind words! However as you might imagine, the resources to run the site -- the disk space, bandwidth, staffing, etc. -- became increasingly too great, especially toward the end, for us to go on. (Hey--we survived the "bubble burst" in the early 2000s! That was quite a feat.)
However, in order to sustain our model of providing free, fast, and safe downloads for our users, and a place for authors to host their software, we couldn't evolve fast enough in order to make the model work in this new era of commodity broadband to the home, and the growing number of and the ease of creating micro sites for all of the various shareware authors and developers. Yes, we could have charge our authors to upload, but how many do you think would have actually paid us? And nevermind that was a dark place for us, and it rubbed against our spirit of free and open access for all.
Winsite was there in the beginning, and in the "middle." We don't know what the future holds, but please know, more than anything, we appreciate our place in history.
--mr
p.s. And those looking to us for packages to download, please do a search for "winsite mirrors" -- we're certain you'll find what you're looking for!
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