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Today I visisted spymac.com, which i do sometimes to check back on the forums, to my suprise, the forum and blog tabs had disspeared from the site completly, I believed this to be the end of real spymac, however after Sam told me, I noticed a small 'community' link at the bottom of the page.
Go read AtariST's blog. Classic is staying. Its not going anywhere.
However Nos flipped and went loopy, started bashing people. I don't know what is wrong with this guy.
I don't know what to say, looks like SM is turning to shit. I think they are going to run it into the ground then turn around and say "well its just not viable any more".
classic may still be 'there', but don't you get the impression that classic is something their trying to hide from the masses, why now have a tiny link at the bottom of the page?
It seems that the 'classic' members are seen as junk and they couldn't give two honks.
It feels like spymac are throwing their community away, is this the last phase in getting rid of the forums completely? And from what I've seen on classic.spymac.com it looks like the real users agree.
We were right?
When Will and I originally wrote this article we were critised and told that I was wrong and that the new 'spymac' would be much improved, however it turned out i was right and it looks like spymac really has forgotten its basic roots, community and values.
The Community link is tiny, that=y are making enough money obviously with leapforg; and thats all its about. They dont want or need the close knot SPY and MAC Community, they just want a revenue earning pastel coloured psuedo web 2.0 social network/image gallery rip off site. Its inactive full of old spymac gallery content, softcore porn, and pictures of mac setups. Hardly a mac site. If I was new to spymac, I would never find the forums, I wouldnt know where to ask for help for my broken iMac G3 for instance, classic.spymac.com is for old hardcore members; to anyone else, its gone. Even the crappy at the time What id do for an iPod thing has gone; the articles have in effect gone, because spymac classic is pushed almost entireylu aout of the question. The most reasonable thing to do now was change the name; as its truly, not spymac in any way whatsoever.
And Just to say...
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And there has already been issues with the servers not being able to hand the Leapfrog traffic. So don't be surprised to see a peak when its updated.
Is everything they say true? How many of their 1,000,000 members are... actually members?
Spymac.com previously reported about by iVirtua and critisized for adult content readily available, has, in line with iVirtua's predictions, been blocked by all LEA Local Eductaion Authorities uner the school's central content filtering. It was also blocked by RM SmartChache system, and in the Cumbria Country Council networks for their offices, lbraries and colleges. Spymac.com has been catagories not even iundet the SNW categoy (Social Network), it has been categoried under the category, "adult"!
I noticed Leapfrog was removed from the logo at http://www.spymac.com and read briefly a comment about it on Spymac - I do still drop by classic but I can honestly say nowhere near as much as I used to - I just keep up on the anti-leapfrog affairs and the falling apart of staff relations there - staff talking sides and arguing in the public eye over at classic - and the notably debating the future of classic - "GadgetDon".
I was going to have a go - and knew it was going to be you that would bump this thread but Its pretty important news! Thanks for reporting it - they finally recognise that the Leapfrog "brand" is entirely unsuitable - they probably recieved a stern worded letter from Leapfrog!
Last edited by Editorial Team on Sat May 12, 2007 2:11 pm; edited 1 time in total
After doing some research into the whole Spymac being banned by content filters - it still hasn't shaken off the period when it was full of pornographic materials to this day it is still blocked by the popular opendns.com:
Expect a review of the progress of Spymac.com very soon.
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but Its pretty important news! Thanks for reporting it - they finally recognise that the Leapfrog "brand" is entirely unsuitable - they probably recieved a stern worded letter from 
