Reverend Upshaw No Longer Around?

This is an odd one that has slipped under my radar. I received an instant message today from a tenant who rents land from me and then sublets some skyboxes. I sometimes get group invite requests from her tenants, as it’s my land but usually what happens is that a bot invites them, we set this up via Reverend Upshaw’s excellent serive and his plugin for Hippo-Technologies rental boxes.

The im informed me that she couldn’t find the store to renew her rental agreement for the bot service, so I went to have a look and the store is gone, the odd thing here being that according to Reverend Upshaw’s profile, he was shutting down his services back in July due in part to being bored with Second Life.

Now this means that either plenty of people don’t complain when they don’t get a group invite and just let their rental expire without complaining, which would be odd, or my tenant has been getting the service for longer than she should have, which may have happened.

Either way it’s a shame that someone like Reverend Upshaw is no longer around. I don’t use Bot services myself, but the auto group invite and eject service is a very useful one, I’m still waiting for the day Linden Lab allow us to script such things, I’d be delighted if that happened, of course those in the bot business wouldn’t be delighted.

So my tenant is now looking for another service to carry out the group invite function, currently she’s considering Smartbots. This looks like it will meet her needs, bots aren’t all evil!