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@FredFreeRideGang: There are simple instructions on the site I've linked.

He swapped 180 for 200 after the race. Who would have thought that bigger rotors are actually better in every sense apart from insignificant weight gain for an enduro bike? ;)

Bullshit detector bookmarklet working overtime on Balls' comment: mourner.github.io/bullshit.js

How many phones do you see on this picture https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/26343052/ ? ;)

@Tmackstab: I thought that Better Call Saul was an exaggerated take on lawyer advertising in America. And then I visited Chicago...

I think this is a common format to convey unexpected medical information. Eg, you're a surgeon and you've had an emergency surgery on Alice, and you're calling Bob to tell him that his wife is fine. You start first by saying that "Alice is fine". You don't go: Is this Bob, this is a St Charlie hospital's ER and we had a surgery on your wife Alice..." People completely freak out on that. So you first convey the most important news (Alice is fine), and then you go into more details.

Excuses ;)

Too bad the article is not accompanied by public photos ;)

@elyari: This has nothing to do with OSS so comparisons are stretched at best. Also it would be great if you would not use ad hominem arguments against other users. Thanks!

@canadaka: That doesn't answer my question. I seriously doubt that the trail database would be as large as it is if this project was subscription based since the beginning. You can say that subscription was unplanned, and we only have your word on that. With the rate of growth that you had, I'm sure you knew many months in advance when you were going to start charging for it, and you could have been transparent about it and just said it that many months in advance. I genuinely doubt that you went into a serious project like this without any consideration about current and future costs and no plans how to solve those. You could have been at least sincere and said: "hey guys we might put this behind paywall, or accept donations in the future, but you're welcome to add your contributions" and nobody could take offense on that. The uptake might have been slower, but at least people would know what to expect. But pretending to be a underdog, while vacuuming trails from user's strava accounts, and worst of all; having people spend many hours drawing trails, and then later locking those in a vault seems disreputable. In the end your intentions might have been pure, but this is still a classic bait and switch, and really left a sour taste for any further contribution in any kind of grass roots software. Tempi passati as Italians would say.