I also was one of these dumb guys, because back then i considered it as a worthy resource for news which aren't available here in Germany.
Stopped my subscription several years ago nevertheless since value for money wasn't really there.
That been said, I assume that Fish and Maven were fully aware of the great community and maybe this was even an important reason for Maven to hire him. I bet they thought that "his" community would directly and fully migrate into their own.
People tend to accept small degradations as long as they won't have to change or leave their comfort zone of a known environment.
This last switch was plain and simply too big of a let down and now instead of a full living community, Maven has hired a desert with some tumbleweed ;-)
PS:
I only had about 100 posts in the old board cause whenever i thought i might know anything, someone else was already faster. ;-)
Stopped my subscription several years ago nevertheless since value for money wasn't really there.
That been said, I assume that Fish and Maven were fully aware of the great community and maybe this was even an important reason for Maven to hire him. I bet they thought that "his" community would directly and fully migrate into their own.
People tend to accept small degradations as long as they won't have to change or leave their comfort zone of a known environment.
This last switch was plain and simply too big of a let down and now instead of a full living community, Maven has hired a desert with some tumbleweed ;-)
PS:
I only had about 100 posts in the old board cause whenever i thought i might know anything, someone else was already faster. ;-)