Thank you, Markus.<p>If just a handful of users are stupid enough to pay the fee to put a badge on their profile that effectively says "I'm <i>really</i> desperate" it will have the opposite of the intended effect, and maybe improve <i>my</i> chances. And at the same time they'll be paying for my share of the bandwidth.
"There will be no addtional features and functionality for users, this upgrade will be strictly to signal intent to the community."<p>So basically, all you get for your $20 a month is a badge saying that you're cooler than people who didn't pay. And for your premium membership, you still get the same crap service that freeloaders get.<p>Are people really that stupid? Asking people to pay something for nothing reeks of arrogance. I'm starting to think Frind got lucky with PoF.
Has anybody ever seen this website before?<p>It feels like if you hired a "webmaster" from the mid 1990s to build you a domain parking page.<p>It is AWFUL.
Interesting typo in the text quoted from Markus: "funcationality".<p>I'd like to speculate it reveals usage of a famous language, but PoF has been described as a Redmond-only shop in the past.