NOTE: I'm really sorry for reposting this but I need you to read this, especially those who use Tabulas' templating function. Please read Roy Kim's plans with Tabulas and please voice out your opinions in his journal. Thank you.

Click here for Roy Kim's entry.

ATTENTION: The owner of tabulas has a plan to limit free account users to pre-made templates. This means NO MORE HTML TEMPLATING for most us.

This is not a hoax. I got it directly from Roy Kim’s journal.

I was supposed to write about Roy several days ago, but time didn’t permit me. Now I feel that I should have written about him long ago, when I still consider him a god. As a self-proclaimed designer, I can’t really help but feel bothered by this one plan among several others that Roy is more or less bound to do to Tabulas.

Ever since I discovered that Roy is just 20 or 21 years old, I was never bothered anymore by any inconvenience—resizing and degradation of the quality of images, down times, and others—that I experienced in Tabulas. Besides, most of us are using free accounts, and for something that is free, Tabulas is such a great catch. With no strings attached. If you check out other online journals, ads will swarm you. Tabulas has no ads.*

*But Roy, just recently, revealed that he has plans to put google ads on our journals in order to earn some money to pay for the maintenance of Tabulas, and of course, to earn some money for himself too.

Imagine—there exists a man, on the other side of the world, who gives us a space to voice out our thoughts and feelings in this tangled web, and allows us to meet great people online, using money from his own pocket. And this guy, who’s even younger than many tabulas users, just recently went to Korea to educate people! How can you not love this guy?

I’ve been reading his entries for quite a long time now, and it’s quite humanizing to discover that the person who allows me to communicate with you—the person who empowers us—is also a human like us who experiences pretty much the same emotions that we feel. That this website is not only ran by a computer, but also by a person who has a great vision for the future of the web.

Roy is less than 5 years older than me, but I haven’t even accomplished half of what he has already done. Through the 3 websites that he owns and manages, he has affected thousands of people all over the world. Tabulas alone has changed our lives in one way or another.

If only I could pay for my Tabulas account, I would.

Think about this 20 year old guy, who runs this website with his own money, every time you encounter a problem with your free tabulas account.

Visit his journal here.

And please voice out your opinions regarding his plans with tabulas in this entry.