I bought the URL PlainsmanClays.ca in 2021 and maintained it on my own server, at my own expense, as an active backup and prototyping site for the main dot-com site. Plainsman demanded to "return it", under threat of legal action. I transferred it to them on June 18, for free, as a sign of good faith. I had also been hosting the DNS records and have removed them. That meant that body usage information and problem mitigation, testing data, example pieces, glaze recipe suggestions, casting instructions, the Celebration project, etc. that took decades to carefully compile (based on and built from many, many hundreds of customer support issues), are gone. Information on the use of Alberta Slip, Ravenscrag Slip, bodies like Polar Ice, M370, M340 and many others, recommended base glaze recipes to fit the bodies, engobe information, firing schedules, and more. Important terms on all of the pages linked automatically into Digitalfire. I expressed regret for this and stated the impact on Digitalfire: Thousands of links to the Plainsman website would stop working because they depended on the existence of an API there. Perhaps Plainsman can be convinced to restore this valuable resource.
As a further sign of goodwill today, I helped them recover from losing their Bitwarden password. This enabled login to their own GoDaddy account to get the URL plainsmanpotterysupply.com (which they accused me of harbouring). I helped them login to their own Gmail account which I also did not have access to (GoDaddy needed it for login). This was possible because I discovered that one of the browsers on an old computer I once supplied for use there, autofilled the Google password. And an Android phone I supplied for 2-factor logins, which I still have, was able to scan the 2-factor challenge code for the Google login.
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