PBW to be permanently shutdown - April Fools Joke

[geoschmo]

My intention for PBW has always been to keep it going as long as there was sufficient interest. I know there is still a loyal hard-core user base, but the traffic is way down from our peak a few years ago. This fact, in addition to an ever shrinking amount of spare time to maintain the service has forced me to take the hard, sad decision to permanently shut the server down.

Due to issues regarding the ownership of the code, passing on the server to someone else is not an option. However, I will keep the server up for a few weeks to allow game owners to get their games transitioned to PBEM, or some other setup.

Thank you all for your many years of support.

And of course, April Fools.