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Originally Posted by mark manley
It has recently been posted up that the site has been sold to a large company called VerticalScope who according to some flood their fora with adverts and use heavy handed moderation to get rid of anyone whose posts might upset their advertisers and there are many doom and gloom predictions about the future of the site given what has happened to others they have aquired.
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Don't knock it, it's the American dream  Build something up to the point where you can sell it to an 'uncaring' (they might well be caring for all I know) faceless bureaucracy, count the mountain of money and move on. What happens to it after that isn't your problem. If they mess it up, well, at least the cheque cleared.
Like you I'm also a member but well towards the silent end of the spectrum. Somehow I've never felt comfortable there and I doubt I visit more than once every three months. As a source of travel information its been further down the pecking order than even Facebook. So you can probably guess I won't lose much sleep if it transforms into clickbait central.
My guess is that if it does become unusable to the point where it's obvious to most of the stalwarts that its gone downhill then someone will embrace the American entrepreneurial spirit and reinvent it. (Just seen Jay's post saying that's what's happened - great minds etc  ). For me one set of log in details are much the same as another so going to the 'New ADV' wouldn't be a big issue, but I wonder how the new owners will react if their footfall contributors desert in droves. Not much point in having a screenful of adverts if no-one is looking at them.
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