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I do! That was my site. Back before I got lazy, lol.
I'm going to really miss her site! I remember back in the day when it didn't have the photos of the ponies but just the image artwork from the back of each of the mlp cards. The artwork really was beautiful! She spent a lot of time updating it and I spent hours creating my wishlists or even browsing the ribbon database so I could have the correct ribbon color on each of my ponies. I'm kind of in shock that it's gone. It's going to take a while before it actually sinks in for me. Quote from: LadyMoondancer on November 09, 2016, 08:19:18 PMI do! That was my site. Back before I got lazy, lol.Your site was awesome! I loved it! at least we still have Kimono's Townhouse.
I'm pretty sure she said she couldn't keep it, but also didn't want to keep it up? I tried going to the site to get that message again, because I can't remember if that's correct, but it seems it's been completely removed now.
After nearly twenty years, I am so very sorry to have to close Dream Valley: A Collector's Guide to My Little Pony. I don't want to go into all the details, just I am no longer able to maintain any of my websites. And I am sorry this is so sudden; this message will not be online much longer.My Little Pony has been a part of me for most of my life, and Dream Valley has been my way of expressing and sharing that joy with other pony fans and collectors during much of that time. Closing Dream Valley was not an easy decision in the least, not so much for myself, but for all the people I've met and whom I've been able to help because of it.I have and will always love My Little Pony, and am looking forward to continuing to enjoy whatever the future brings, but this situation has forced me to realize that I am ready to be just a fan again.When Dream Valley first went live in 1997, the online My Little Pony community was just beginning, and having seen how it's grown over the years, I have always been proud to have been one of its founding members, and I hope the fandom lives on forever, both online and off.Thank you everypony.Kimberly
Kim was always very protective about her site, and to try and take any kind of control from her to run it would be disrespectful in my opinion. We'd be doing it for the sake of our nostalgia, not considering her wishes. She's kept the site up this long where others have gone, and when she wasn't actively involved here. We don't know the reasons behind her decision, so we shouldn't assume that we have the right to try and overrule it.On another note, if DV went live in 1997, the DV printouts I have from 98 are really early. I wonder when in 1997. I also wonder if I still have the original printouts that I took from the library in summer 97 or if I junked them (probably the latter). It makes me realise that, if I had gone onto a library PC to find MLP in January or February instead of July or August, it might not have been there, and everything might have been different. I always assumed it had been there at least a year before I got online...but I guess that's an additional bittersweet thing for me. I was there almost at its start, and now, almost 20 years on, I see its end. Whatever my personal frustrations at times with information issues and updates, I really do feel it is the end of a huge era in the pony world. I also think that Kim has the right to be 'just a fan' again, as she put it. Sometimes you need to do that, step away and really appreciate your collections for your sake, not other people's. The community has changed a lot in 19 years, and one thing I learned over that time is that you can't live in the past...