Hi. I agree. Well, I mean I would possibly post even if I didn't, but ~ well, no, I probably wouldn't. Anyway, any person who paid for SI within the last six months is probably going to be a little mad. Maybe they even leave.
We sort of assume no one will be paying now. I mean, they haven't really said anything, but, that's pretty obvious.
So I wonder, if maybe membership of SI was not growing significantly. It's one of three possibilities, but if the paying curve was rising, I doubt we'd be seeing free registration.
If it's been slow growing, "even", or declining, SI takes on a whole new perspective.
(All of these things are duhs, but.....)
There becomes more motivation to see things like what we're seeing. To see the shift to the middle and mediocrity and the public-accustomed Yahoo layout. To change the business plan.
Maybe they want to sell to Yahoo, or AOL, or Bill Gates, or The Khan. And what SI is needs to be laid out more familiarly, more standardly. But maybe a reason to lay it out like Yahoo is to integrate to them.
Even if they're not selling, making it more "common" is, imho, being driven by the desire to "standardize", and "up" the hit traffic. In my WAG, membership fees and connected "miscellany" are not generating the revenue they need. They are abandoning that business plan.
Rock and hard place, made harder by us SI connoisseurs who will shoot them if they start serving beer.
Still, it all comes back to the motivation of 30 million. It necessitates whatever we will see.
I wouldn't want to be in their shoes.
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