Pre Migration Most liked posts in thread: Over on NAM today...

Wow! I can't believe I just read through that entire thread, then poked around a bit... They are seriously calling M/A a dead site? In that hour I spent perusing that [emoji90]hole, I saw not one single post of any kind of value with a date tag newer than 2014!

Love the one guy in the thread that started this mess that said "there is NOTHING for a Countryman owner" here on M/A... There are a few of us on here that have the hefty MINI, and love them, its just not many of us talk about our "other" MINI. Given the opportunity though, I always at least pop into the threads to see what's going on. [emoji41]

 

Isn't it a crack up. That s***hole of a site is bleeding a slow death and becoming less than worthy by the day. It's great to see some of you guys offering words of support and directing folks here. It's just the right thing to do.

 

New vendor at NAM with no internet presence (except for an AOL e-mail address).

Mini Cooper Navigation Map Update 2015 - North American Motoring

 

They make the claim that since they have vendor status they must be good. Heck, even the site guidelines state NAM is not responsible for the vendors, you buy at your own risk.

 

I'm getting a laugh out of those saying since this new vendor are not in the vendor directory then it can't be real.

Like the Vendor Directory is even up to date there.

I guess many don't realize that Internet Brands* doesn't care if the vendor is legit or not so long as the check clears.

*Internet Brands owns 100's of forums and them are owned by the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman. They are EVIL. See the Controversies section at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Brands

 

I put a post in that thread subtly echoing that sentiment...

The vendor reminds me very much of another no longer on the MINI scene, all the mispellings, but thankfully none of the shouting. Probably a younger cousin.

 

I'm pretty sure I'm one of those people you reference 00Mini. And while I may not have gone as far as to say M/A is dead (because as we're all seeing here now), it is definitely much slower here. I personally feel that way now having the Coupe. I just looked, and other than the guy posting about his 2015 fJCW Coupe he just got last week (good on Dave for finding out what the "f" stood for lol), the next newest post is from March!

And as I scroll the main page, most of the announcements outside of this section are from last year or older.

So maybe I'm crazy (wouldn't be the first time I've been called that) and it's just going to take getting used to over here, but it does feel lacking for me personally on what's available here versus over there.

I will say that the layout, navigation, and administration here at M/A is by far the best I have seen out of multiple car forums I belong to, across many platforms.