Poor security at other gay networking sites (gayroyal.com in this instance)

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Regent's ongoing financial troubles

I've been pleasantly surprised by the increase in advertising on gay.com (not that I enjoy the ads, just that they show gay.com is managing to generate some income which may result in better business practices at the company), but just read this disturbing article on Alyson Publications (another of the businesses gobbled up by PlanetOut which was then gobbled up by Regent).

http://www.queerty.com/is-broke-regent-media-unloading-destitute-alyson-books-20100722/

Oh well.

The WRONG changes

Well, once again the powers that be have made changes to gay.com. And in the process they've broken the 3rd party chat programs that were FINALLY starting to get up to speed. Just when these programs were starting to help revive the quality and quantity of conversation online the management has, once again, cut off its nose to spite its face.

Too good to be true

Just about two weeks ago I was commenting in my usual Twin Cities room that it had been a long time since I'd noticed gay.com go down for "maintenance." Then several days ago I wasn't able to log on at all. Every time I'd try to log on using Safari I'd immediately get a "server dropped connection" message. Tonight I used Firefox instead and logged on just fine. It took me a while to notice that they've made changes to their programming again ... the look of profiles is different. I haven't explored enough to see what else might have changed. Whatever they've done has certainly broken the system for those using Safari browser and hasn't really improved the look or usability.

Oh, has anyone else noticed that a year later they still don't seem to have many advertisers other than their own other ventures (their magazines, books and movies all owned by the same company) and seem to have lost regulars they used to have, like Expedia.

Oh well.