Firstly with Dom it was a wild bearpit, something different, while every other FSsite toed the line and got free review products and painted a clinical (and very boring) picture of the market, visiting the AirdailyX site as a developer while Dom ran it left me feeling sometimes both a little uneasy and excited, wondering if you might be the 'target for tonight'
With D'andre it changed a lot, it became a kinder fairer place, I think maybe the passion for simulation increased, but in a different way with less bear-poking and more glitter, D'andre set about actually helping smaller developers gain more exposure if they were making quality products, the website grew and grew, and maybe became too much for him to keep up with
Since D'andre left I feel this 'energy' has died, the user base is split in 20 different directions with all the simulators we now have, and I rarely bother to visit anymore to be honest, I'm not sure how the funding system is working out, I was not a part of that myself due to working for a large publisher already, but I can see it would be handy for people like Robin, personally I dont see it working out in the long term, the FS developing world is littered with corpses, backburned projects and dreams that faded
Cheers, TimH