I'm noticing a pattern that templates are being withdrawn without notice. Qubert, Minsk maybe others. It is hard to keep track of what is going on. There is a slow trickle of new templates, but it just keeps pace with those being withdrawn.
Why were they withdrawn? Low takeup? Or design/build problems?
I actually thought both Qubert and Minsk were ok, though both had some quirks that actually stoppped me from using them - e.g. Minsk had a basic blog that had no sidebar available.
Yet Minsk also had some unique (correct me if I'm wrong) features:
- a powerful index that I've yet to see matched by any other Squarespace template - it could show blog excerpts and titles in the index. The indexes I've seen on other templates are poor by comparison to Minsk, in that they aren't blog excerpt friendly.
- a clever menu structure that built categories in the menu structure. Again, very useful
I am surprised that templates are being withdrawn already, because there isn't that much choice as it is in my opinion. Are we to expect (I hope) that the templates that have been withdrawn are being revisioned and will come back in an even better form?