I dont think most are getting what actually happened. This is no longer a private website and is owned by a company, this company generates money by adverts amongst other things.
People dont like adverts here and browsers can block them, so the other way of doing it is to get 'Likes' on face book, so every time someone 'Likes' the content on the face book page money is generated. The precise ins and out your going to have to look up as I am not a facebook fan, but I think my description is pretty much there.
So now this is a commercial site you get a settle in period then you start to get changes so they can generate a profit, the main problem now facing them is margin. I have no idea what was paid for this site but it was sold at a time the decline in figures wouldnt have come through fully, so in some ways they didnt get what they thought they were getting.
In the end it will come down to excepting adds on the forum or excepting that what you post will be placed on other sites on the internet, personally I would likely have stayed again here but the facebook thing puts me off.
On here you see the comments to what you put, now you will also have comments made that you dont see unless you go looking over facebook.
The bigger issue is the drawings etc are now displayed to a much wider audience, dosnt matter to me but to some this might have an impact.
ETO gets X number views a day, facebook is another planet view wise so many many many more people are going to read what you put, make a mistake in a thread that is posted and literally the world is gonna see it
. I am sure people are going to say I am totally wrong blah blah blah, thats there choice. But I dont use ANY of the sites the company that owns ETO has, and now ETO is on facebook I now reluctantly add it to my not going there list.
Sorry guys its back to the private sites for me!
NIGEL FFS start a forum will you! Its about time you started one and put an end to the rubbish out there, if its a money issue say so as I am certain many here would chip in for a site you run.