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When Steve Loft was about to retire from involvement with Cumulus, he wanted to close his web server. His server (sandaysoft.com) had hosted the wiki, the support forum, and some of the downloads were at http://sandaysoft.com/downloads. The other downloads (used mostly for beta and special releases) were at http://www.nybbles.co.uk/downloads which was also closed.
 
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The next month (November 2018), Steve Loft sought a new host for the support forum, as next part of closing his web server. The Cumulus MX beta that Steve Loft was writing and hosting on his web server was available as a download within the support forum. When Niall Hosiene ("Freddie") took over hosting of the forum, all the forum contents, wereincluding movedattached byfiles, himwere moved to his server.
 
It appears (as the main page suggests "We've added download links for Cumulus V1 and Cumulus MX in the new Software/Downloads page ") there was a bit of conflict between '''Downloads''' page and '''Software''' page.
*Ken True created new "Downloads" section in this Wiki referenced from other pages; to this were added the Cumulus 1 final version software download, the help file download and the Cumulus 1 special downloads for Instromet.
*Mark Crossley on taking over Cumulus MX development created a new Wiki page just for MX, called software with links to his GitHub pages where the source and distributions for MX are now held (instead of as attachments to forum posts).
*Niall Hosiene (the forum host) edited the new Software page to make it one destination for both MX dominantand Cumulus 1 software, he overlooked that other pages in this Wiki were linking to the original Downloads page. He was so keen to promote MX, hehis edit downgraded Cumulus 1 to legacy and made it difficult to findthe links to the various Cumulus 1 downloads. Inwere promotingconsequently themade "Software" page, he overlooked that other pages in this Wiki were linkingharder to the original downloads pagespot.
 
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