From my earlier posts everyone can see Im obviously on the webmaster's side of this - because just canning an account out of the blue w/ no warning or news of "trouble" ahead just isn't right. It shows no consideration for the webmasters that suddenly have to update thousands of links. A simple email like "iFriends' business model needs to be restructured due to outdated sales methods" or something similar would be sufficient - it would suck, but at least we'd have a heads up and kept in the loop.
Trixie does bring up a lot of very good points, and I agree with her 100%. From a chathost's perspective she hit it right on the nose. The entire business model is set up for disaster, especially now that cam sites are a dime a dozen and giving away free shows. Paying $40 per free user even seemed far-fetched back in the late 90s when iFriends pretty much ruled the web. iFriends definitely needed to make some serious changes to their payouts, but just cutting off all these webmasters w/ no warning leaves one rather bitter.
