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I miss that site a lot too, but there's more to the story than that: - Consumer Reports bought the site, all is well. - Site was hacked via the comments syste
by RandomBacon 7y ago
I miss that site a lot too, but there's more to the story than that:
- Consumer Reports bought the site, all is well.
- Site was hacked via the comments system.
- Site returned without the comments.
- Since comments were why most people went to that site, the site site suffered greatly.
- They reintroduced comments, but made you jump through hoops to get an account. Only a few (literaly less than ten that I can remember) people commented.
- Those few people stopped commenting because there was no one else to interact with.
- The site shut down.
(I had a story that I submitted and was posted to The Consumerist. I also had one of those few accounts after the hack.)