Do you accept Jason Feffer's reason for disabling the user login on SH?

Do you accept Jason Feffer's reason for disabling the user login on SH?

Re: Do you accept Jason Feffer's reason for disabling the user login on SH?

I accept the reason. It's fine to wanna make money and all that. And it's his site (or at least partly his) so he can do what he wants with it.

The problem I have is HOW he did it. No notice and no time to get info from other people to stay connected. I counted on SodaHead to talk with friends and I really didn't have any other way to stay in contact with them. A week or two to allow us to find another site and to get contact info wasn't going to kill his company.

So I accept the reason but I think the process they went through was cold and uncaring and not thoughtful for the people who helped build SodaHead.

Re: Do you accept Jason Feffer's reason for disabling the user login on SH?

Do I have a choice? 

Re: Do you accept Jason Feffer's reason for disabling the user login on SH?

The reason for closing or going in a different direction is up to the business, how they do it is another thing. Very unprofessional
handling of people that were in essecience providing them the poll data. A very clumsy, and awkard way to bring a end to the site.
 I belonged to Lycos and Excite which both had user group boards. They gave us about two weeks before they shut down. Smartcomputing transitioned from a magazine and online help group to a online magazine and that was a outhouse mess as this has been. The owner Sandhills publishing went out of business less than a year later because the people they treated poorly canceled their subscriptions and never did go to the online site. Some of these genisues never figure that the new owner may not want the data they provide especially if it is negative thus buy them out and then fold them, write it off as a business loss. It happens all the time.

Re: Do you accept Jason Feffer's reason for disabling the user login on SH?

I don't get the impression that Fef actually cared about the "community" but was only concerned with money.  If he cared about the people who spent so much time on the site he would at least have given everyone a few weeks' notice so that people could exchange email addresses, perhaps mend a few fences, etc.

Ah well, water under the bridge, I suppose.  It was fun while it lasted.

Re: Do you accept Jason Feffer's reason for disabling the user login on SH?

 NO!    Money over matters !! They could have gave us time. Too many got hurt from lack of respect. There would be a riot if that happen to FACEBOOK.

Re: Do you accept Jason Feffer's reason for disabling the user login on SH?

I find it highly suspicious.

Re: Do you accept Jason Feffer's reason for disabling the user login on SH?

no, of course not! who does?

Re: Do you accept Jason Feffer's reason for disabling the user login on SH?

No, it is just lame and it reeks of laziness and greed on his part.

Re: Do you accept Jason Feffer's reason for disabling the user login on SH?

I think it's about fast money ... pure and simple.