cschell posted at 2:30PM Wed, 24 February 2016 - #4257031

Honestly... it's not about making the community better... it's about profit, pure and simple... why not just admit it and get on with it... at least we'd all know where we stand...

Well it costs money to run such a site, and if the profits are too small the site suffers. If they had huge profits like things were before, then why change them?

Maybe the big sales and huge discounts before the changes ran them down economically so that they had to make these changes, but a bad economy is something companies rarely want to admit publicly. If that's correct I think it would be better for a company like this that they admitted it, then people would probably be less hostile and more understanding, and maybe even helpful.

Besides, it also seems to be "about the money" for many customers - lower prices, bigger discounts, more site features etc..