Ah yes it only shows when you log on.
You are right... I feel like a bloke that has been quietly going to the same pub for 19 years, then overnight the owner has changed, the decor has changed and it's not even really a pub anymore. It's become a restaurant or eatery or whatever they are called nowadays. A few of us keep going for a while, until the raised prices and the disappearance of the bar stools force us out and down the road to another pub, or we give up on drinking.
Well yeah, if you go into it with that approach you probably will drop off
Well if the prices (see subscription) and the decor change why wouldn't I, or at the very least look around for another site.
Im not trying to say Im thrilled about the change, it just is what it is and its the community of folk posting and interacting that make UKB what it is, not the owner or aesthetic! The subscription isnt mandatory and if youre worried about it ask the admin in the thread I linked above
Except in this scenario, the owner literally told the barflies he was going to sell it, offered to sell it to them and they declined, so sold it to someone else. The changes are actually very minor, and make the whole site far more usable. The new owner is now selling nuts and crisps at the bar but purchase isn't compulsory, and obviously if it became so he'd been shooting himself in the foot because very few will pay. Nostalgia is a disease! Times change.
Edit: wasn't happy with what I'd written.
I think it's obvious to everyone else tech admin that, unfortunately, it's 'you' who is 'that guy' and we're now lumbered with him.
