It is unfortunate that this has happened, but it's what needs to be done. 

If any of the skinners needs a tester of thier weather widgets I have XP Home 32 bit and Vista Home Premium 64 bit and will be happy to test for you.

Yep I'm ready for the tests too... xp pro32/vista ultimate32 ...

 

  I agree with you on this ,Philly.

Thanks ID, and all you moderators.

By exile do you mean permanently deleted from the galleries or locked down/hidden so no one can download them? And this applies to themes as well, yes?

And will emails be sent to the authors informing them of the reason for the deletion?

With the help of the community members the weather widgets can get updated, tested and back in the WC Gallery Library before anyone notices.

Exile means removed forever.  We are providing the week so that any author who does not have a copy of their widgit will have time to grab it from WC.

The authors will be notified via the standard moderation email that their object has been removed.

I disagree that it's not in Wincustomize's hands. If you go to McDonalds and get a cold hamburger,whats going to happen? You'll get another one. Thats what Stardock has done in the past. Or a coupon. Or a discount. But you come away as a customer a little bit happier. I think that with all the work the skinners are forced to do or Wincustomize,the customer has been lost in all of this. The answers that I've read so far consist of the customer fixing the script or deleting the widget. I've simply gone back to using Stardock themes. And since all of their products I've purchased....they are obligated to me in ensuring that they work. On this side of the equation,at Wincustomize,I purchase everything I can from skinners when they put it up for sale. I bought Vad_M's clock even though I had his beta. Simply to provide support for the skinning community. So it's disheartening to me when I read skinners bemoaning the process. It's not a lot of money. But over time it's added up. And when Wincustomize says,"out of our hands". I don't believe thats ever the case.

Hi Spencer,

That TOS is not a new. Seems it operates more than 2 last years! If certainly - not less than 1 year! Just a few days ago TWC changed their RSS url. Nothing more!

Hmmm... Hmmm... I have updated all of my widgets. They work but don't show the TWC logo because I've used the second method through xml.weatehr.com that don't require the registration. So seems they will be exiled together with other...

If yes - no any problems for me. I'm just very sorry to thousands of people who have downloaded and used them... What they will do now?

As I said, we didn't create the code nor the weather widgets affected.  These are user-created widgets that are being affected, it's the responsibility of the creator to fix them if they wish.  There is nothing we can do otherwise.

Vad_M, when I use the following call (for my local area): http://xml.weather.com/search/search?where=48375

the first few lines are:

<!--
 This document is intended only for use by authorized licensees of The 
-->
−
<!--
 Weather Channel. Unauthorized use is prohibited.  Copyright 1995-2009,
-->
−
<!--
 The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.           
-->

That would indicate to me that some licensing *IS* in place and would need to be honored.

ID,I'm not on some skinners website. Yes they are user generated. But they are user generated on Wincustomizes web site. I'm a customer. I've purchased a Wincustomize subscription. Thus all products on Wincustomizes web site come with an implied warranty regardless to who produces the product. Wincustomize has implied to the customer that all these products are in compliance with the law and work as described. ID,your logic hasn't served web sites very well in cases involving piracy. I disagree that Wincustomize has no culpability.

Dear Kendawg78,

Thank you for buying RB Clock. Email me if you'll discover any bugs in it.

I'm sure this make a big sence. Only the authors of widgets must (or may) update their creations if they have a wish or free time for this. More than - it may be a stand alone gadgets. Who instead of their authors can change the scripts?

So I see the only one way for you. You need wait untill all of widgets/gadgets that you like will be updated. Then you may to download them once again.

Sorry, but you are quite wrong.  We don't imply a "warranty" on downloads for something like this.  We do our best to make sure they are legal, are not rips, etc. but we cannot do anything if a third-party changes something that affects a user-created widget.  We have already looked into any possible options and nothing was available that was feasible.

What do you really expect WinCustomize to do?  Download all the widgets and fix them for the user who created them?  I mean, that would be nice if we had the resources, but lets get back to reality here.  

 

You subscribed to a site to gain advertisement free access to "user contributed skins", thus the stuff contained within is not compliant to any implied warranty. Now if your access to the site was blocked or not to reasonable satisfaction you might be entitled to a refund. 

 

The staff of WC does thier best within reason to ensure all uploads are working at the time of posting, if they should fail to work in the future due to unforseen circumstances beyond their control. It would not be of their own doing and can not be held liable for monetary damages due to lack of use. Also try to sue MS for not ebsureing old versions of Games programs to work with new os releases, or hardware for that mater... at the time of release all widgets worked to the satisfaction of the administration and the general populace.

Kendawg78, doesn't the next to last paragraph in ID's original post do what you are asking for?  If not, what am I missing?