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Old 12-04-2018, 04:54 AM
matthew matthew is offline
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TRF has always had issues of some sort, but since the current owners took over from troj... ugh. The organised begging is over the top. As I'm sure Scott can attest - yes, there's costs involved in keeping a site maintained and available. It isn't so ridiculously over the top to warrant the level of begging that TRF does. What they do is "monetising" - making a living from the gullible that think they are "keeping TRF alive". Heck, even a couple of the vendors defend their right to have to pay $25/m to post an occasional for sale advert in that ghost town.

FWIW, I asked Angie to let Austen know that if the site was so much of a burden to keep on the 'net I would buy it. They deleted the post.

Seriously, if Wildman created a forum on his site and had Crazy Jim post all his builds there, TRF would be dead in 3 months.
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