Forum no, initially done to promote the mag, then try and monetize it does irritate me somewhat.
They’re not trying to “monetise the forum” (aside from the advertising which has existed longer than I’ve been here), they’re providing a space where members can discuss things of absolutely no relevance to non-members, such as “my magazine hasn’t arrived”. Which I’ve just explained once.
The only way a members-only forum would monetise anything is FOMO.
Particularly when forum costs are probably more than covered by members anyway
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No.
I think you must be doing something wrong, really
Tell you what. If you know better than a company that’s been doing it for over a decade, why not go set up your own forum doing it ‘right’. You’ll be rich!
to be marginalised for being cash poor is sad.
Oh don’t be melodramatic. You don’t get the magazine delivered either, or access to exclusive content, or well any of the other reasons people actually subscribe to the site in the first place, and this has been the case since the forum was in orange. Why are you complaining now all of a sudden?
My local gym won’t let me use their treadmill so I’m being marginalised! Of course, I’m not a member, I’m just being discriminated against!