"Well it was announced we wouldn't have any new features added to the platform Marsden, ever since Ben Elowitz decided to go into the Television Entertainment business with our old Wetpaint name, leaving us to be re-named as Wikis by Wetpaint.

This new platform will always be updated multiple times daily, and so will the platform's Facebook account, but we will have to sacrifice our future platform features so that they can deal with the Entertainment platform.

As any other site that goes without upgrading, it starts to degenerate and people start leaving, disappointed. It also is taken over by spammers.

We are scrapping at something that isn't there and will most likely never be there again: Customer Care, Support, and upgrades.

Our connections with Wetpaint have went from several to just a single thread. Jeremy. We still don't hear/see much from him because of Ben's decisions for the company: Abandoning support for the Wiki Platform, turn all worker's direction toward the Entertainment Platform, and laying off many staff members.
Anyone remember Jason? I'm sure Rich and BA remember him well. I barely knew him, but that was because I was new. (I'm getting off topic, aren't I?)

The point is, the company has almost left us with NO connections what-so-ever, leaving us wiki users in the dust. The connection(s) we have with Jeremy has grown very very thin. I haven't seen him post or send any of us Mods a message this week, like he said he would, one day a week.
Thanks to Ben, Jeremy doesn't have time for us anymore, which forces us (The Community Moderators) to take control and take care of all your questions, problems, and/or concerns. (But we do that already. If you ask me, Wetpaint needs to pay us, but that's my opinion.)

Continued."

"Surely if something doesn't work too good on these old platforms that it affects the new one? Maintence is needed again as I find that the servers need another adjustment. What happened to Jeremys words that these old platforms would be kept maintained."

"Those were some long and heartfelt posts, Clay, specially when compared to Tosan's more brutal and no-nonsense approach as just sending Wetpaint to hell. I get you both, in your own ways.

Personally, for us slightly more oldies, what hurts the most is comparing what Wetpaint is now with what Wetpaint used to be back in the day and how indeed us users were mostly left "in the dust".
However, this whole change happened over a year ago now and I have made my peace with it a long time ago. As CryingDove says sometimes, Wetpaint is now "what you see is what you get" and there are several issues none of us will ever be able to address or change. Period. People are just gonna have to face it and either accept things the way they are now (knowing they won't ever be the way they were before) or just leave Wetpaint and move on. There's nothing wrong with that.

Still, it could have been much worse. By the time Wetpaint changed to the new TV sites platform, they could have just shut the wikis down altogether, and they didn't. I get that there may still be some marginal revenue from the adds seen on the wikis, but I don't think that's too relevant for them these days, otherwise they wouldn't have even changed, with all the costs associated to it. As far as technical problems go, we have a few, but the core of it has been attended and maintained, otherwise I'm sure we wouldn't even be able to access the sites anymore by now.

Personally, even though I realize things will probably only keep going downhill, I'll stay to the very end, mostly because I choose to always remain faithful to this format which has given me so much as far as online entertainment is concerned."