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ddt
Mar 16, 2009, 8:31 PM
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Hi everyone,
This is an important announcement regarding the management of Rockclimbing.com.
As you know, Rockclimbing.com, together with its sister sites Dropzone.com and BASEjumper.com, were purchased by NameMedia last year and operated by them since then. Unfortunately, as the economy worsened over the past few months it became less desirable for NameMedia to operate these sites given their business direction, which brought them to a difficult choice: find a suitable buyer or shut the sites down. Neither option was very desirable at this stage, so after much deliberation a third alternative was chosen, namely to sub-contract the operational responsibility back to the previous owners, Willem (user sangiro) and me. We've run these sites on a pretty tight budget before and we believe we can do so again, thus ensuring the longevity of the user communities.
What this means is that we will immediately resume all day-to-day management and operational responsibilities of the sites, while NameMedia will handle marketing and ad sales. NameMedia will remain the overall owner but we will have a minority interest in the value of the sites as a longer-term incentive for our efforts.
The very unfortunate side-effect of all of this is that NameMedia was unable to justify a full-time salaried publisher, so Jay Young (j_ung) was let go from his position by NameMedia on Friday. This was a pure business decision and in no way a reflection on Jay's performance. We can all agree that he did a terrific job and added a ton of value to the site during his time as publisher, and we will miss him in that role. Thank you for what you did here Jay.
Fortunately Jay will remain as chief editor for content/articles and as such will continue to be a prominent presence on the site. For the immediate future though I will take his place as chief-in-charge until a longer-term solution is put in place.
Obviously this change marks a new era for Rockclimbing.com (again  ). Still, this period is unique in the sense that we're really forced to hunker down and survive a tough economic climate, while preserving the unique character and value of Rockclimbing.com for its climbing user community. And we believe we can do this without interrupting the fun!
DDT
(This post was edited by ddt on Mar 18, 2009, 8:29 PM)
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Post edited by ddt
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