Dammit guys. Here are the core things (feel free to link to this post in case you assholes ignore this):
- TheCruel is banned and got sentenced to jail for Child Pornography. This was figured out by forum users by crosslinking various details (read 300 to 320 for details) and the mods banned him for it.
- FreeShop as it is is NOT in danger in any shape way or form because of this. It's code is open source and anyone can check if it contains objectionable content. As of right now, it does not contain any.
- TheCruel does NOT maintain the cache for freeShop, @ss23 does and he isn't currently in jail (nor is he planning to). If the cache method breaks at any point, it is trivial to switch cache sources anyway, with only a few lines of coding needing to be changed to point to the new servers and users needing to install and update to freeShop. See here for a simple writeup on how freeShops cache works in comparison to the similar tool, CIAngel.
- @Minox (and by extension the mod team) already told everyone to BACK THE FUCK OFF and bring back discussion to freeShop.
Having said that, please refrain from discussing TheCruel's actions beyond this point. The dude's a sick bastard, we already know that and he got aptly punished for it. If it offends you to a personal level, write a damn Blog about it and do
NOT shit up the thread. The thread is about freeShop, not about TheCruel.
On-topic: As it currently stands a new maintainer would be very useful, as I've seen at least one user who is willing to add a new feature to freeShop, and in the end that is all that matters. That this software gets expanded upon more and more. By far the easiest would be for someone who is interested to create a fork and appoint contributors to it. Having said that, here are some of the current and useful suggestions to the software that I've seen people make:
- List the amount of free space available on the SD card (suggested by @jockep and he wants to work on it so I wish him the best of luck with it).
- Adding flags for the KOR and CHN regions (suggested by @StarTrekVoyager )
- Add the ability to use BCSTM as a music format to make a looping track. (suggested by @StarTrekVoyager )
- Fix various bugs including amongst others: The download buffering, the mario strikers not downloading properly, freeShop crashing if you switch the download list during TMD install and many many more (suggested by lots of people in this thread)
- Add theming support (suggested by many people, including me)
If you are a dev and are interested in coding any of this, feel free to do so. This is just a simple compilation of the primary things people seem to want out of freeShop, and I think I can safely speak for everyone that we need a new maintainer. If we get one, I'd say they should create a new thread and this thread should be locked to prevent the freeShop discussion from being killed while also getting everyone to shut the fuck up about The Cruel.