I think there is a misunderstanding that DF and mag staff have anything to do with the web content. They dont. DF didnt make the decision of who they hired for that job.
As for magazine's forum downfall, I believe it to be a serious miscalculation on the part of the IT department to how many of their readers had high speed internet at the time. As I read the complaints, many were still using dial up back in 2007. High spped internet wasnt available or too expensive at the time in the small towns and rural areas.
It is almost as bad as a gearhead thinking everyone had a car project and a bunch of tools in their garage just like they did. They must have gotten these IT guys from Microsoft, because they were making the same mistakes.
Thanks for the support. A couple people were suggesting doing freelance work. It doesnt pay anywhere near what it used to do. A lot of work for no garantee of publication and if they do, its $150/page. I talked with Doug Glad a couple years ago about it, but he wanted car features only. I found it difficult to get strangers interested in letting me shoot their cars with only the promise that I will mail it in to the mags.
As for magazine's forum downfall, I believe it to be a serious miscalculation on the part of the IT department to how many of their readers had high speed internet at the time. As I read the complaints, many were still using dial up back in 2007. High spped internet wasnt available or too expensive at the time in the small towns and rural areas.
It is almost as bad as a gearhead thinking everyone had a car project and a bunch of tools in their garage just like they did. They must have gotten these IT guys from Microsoft, because they were making the same mistakes.
Thanks for the support. A couple people were suggesting doing freelance work. It doesnt pay anywhere near what it used to do. A lot of work for no garantee of publication and if they do, its $150/page. I talked with Doug Glad a couple years ago about it, but he wanted car features only. I found it difficult to get strangers interested in letting me shoot their cars with only the promise that I will mail it in to the mags.
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