There's no point getting hot and bothered about past fuck-ups. And God knows there's been enough of them.
When NDN (gay site) was launched on 12 Jan 2013, I think only those who'd selected Monthly News in their account settings got told about the new option. I didn't see the email til weeks later, because it went to my spam box!
VERDICT: MAJOR FAIL!
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There was no announcement about the new site, and the 2013 Sign-in page and Front Page of NBN made scant mention of it. People definitely weren't invited to "choose sides" or transfer Premium membership, and were never offered any such option.
Members of NBN were given membership of the new NDN, to get the site off to a good start. But many or most of the "Class of Jan 2013" members have never even logged in there.
VERDICT: MAJOR FAIL!
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Although NDN was now the gay site, and NBN the gurlie site, the Front Page and Sign-in page for each site had identical promo photos, and this remained the case throughout 2013 and over half of 2014.
VERDICT: MAJOR FAIL!
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It's a shame NBN couldn't have included filters so that people could look at lingerie (or ignore it) as the mood took them. In the Forum around 2010 I sided with the people who didn't want to see crossdressers if that was their choice. I called for filters, but we didn't get them.
Verdict reserved as I don't know the background or technicalities
NBN was a busy and very active site back in those pre-2013 days, although admittedly there was a lot of web-steal stuff attracting viewers.
Since the split, NBN had become a shadow of its former self, while NDN is dangerously close to being dead in the water. Active sites tend to attract paying members, sort of like a critical mass. It seems to me that NDN is way below that threshold, and NBN is kind of just bumping along.
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There ain't no point crying over spilt jizz, though. What's done is done, and these fuck-ups are now part of history.