It was fun while it lasted

As I said in a different fora . . . . SLS has had a loyal following. There have been many unpopular changes made in the past year, however none as universally unpopular as ending email. What they do not seem to understand is :

1. Anyone joining seeing so many upset long term members will think long and hard about spending money.

1. Existing members are now looking, considering, and joining other sites. So, SLS is helping there competition while simultaneously are damaging the reputation of there site.

Yes, many may not care. Yes, more bucks may flow in short term. And, yes, long term other sites will benefit. This reminds me of “new Coke” vs “Coke Classic” a marketing decision that cost CokaCola a fortune. Management really needs to rethink this direction.

Couldn't agree with you more! I think everything that has been done was done intentionally and to get people to leave, especially Lifetime Members. I paid $150 for a lifetime membership and don't get 1/2 of what I got before these idiotic changes. I can't message free members and the mail system is a mess. Usually, when a site is upgraded the people running it do their very best to try to explain the reasoning behind it. Not so here. Instead, we all get snarky responses and attitude.

Thank you for the confirmation. Much appreciated.

@OCBJ, yes, both green.

Yes, both green.

Yep, both green.

Question to anyone that can answer this. When these upgrades went live, we lost the ability to email and our profile (when it appeared in the ‘Who’s on’ section displayed two green button. One for message and the other for video chat. Both buttons are now gone (not that we care about video chat). So, we do not know if the messaging ability is turned on or off. Somewhat confused as to why this change was so majestic. So, the question is, if you were to view our profile, do these features appear as green to you or not.

Thanks in advance.

OCBJ

OMG the sky is falling, run !

I have a lifetime account but I probably won't bother coming on here any more without a mail function.

And I thought It could not get any Worst. But it Has Went To Hell Quick With the New owner ? When You are a Life time Member they don't give a Dan about you !! They have your money and cant get ant moor from you ?? they take away What you agreed to on the First Contract . With out caring what you thing!! A lot of Dumps Trumps Ass holes Owen this Site .

Well stated newworld and we completely agree. Taking away email from a swing site and replacing it with IM is like disabling your phone from making calls and only allowing you access to twitter.

As we have seen, only the most inarticulate and idiotic people use twitter as their primary source of communication.

~Scamp

Is that why my mail is gone? Did the site really disable the mail?

I have a lifetime membership as a single and pay every 3 months with my play partner, but I will not renew again. I have been here since 2011 and watched a bad (but usable) site just get worse and worse, all due to senseless, unnecessary changes.

For every longtime member, we all basically wanted one thing: better search features. Allow for more attributes on profiles and let people search them out. Very basic technology. Toss in some navigation improvements and maybe an upgrade beyond HTML 2.0 and you had a winner.

Instead, they decided to not allow opt out of IM and eventually took away mail. Now we are left with a god awful message system. It was an intentional downgrade that makes the site even harder to use and harder to filter out noise.

This website is so bad that this account will no longer be paid after expiration. My lifetime acct is what it is, but I haven't used that much in a couple years anyway. Never before have I seen owners intentionally sabotage themselves like these people do. It is illogical and senseless, almost to the point where you need to believe they are doing it on purpose.

I will check back in from my other acct as I let this one go Free. Unless things revert back to their poor (but usable) state, then I am done. I haven't looked, but I am sure I find what I want elsewhere.