... For the price of it, I don't mind. Some things crap,
Although the price is fairly reasonable, what annoyed me most was the amount of advertising that had taken over.
When you consider the amount of detail in most of the adverts, I would consider these as being more than your normal run-of-the-mill-adds, thus being paid for other than the usual advertising rate.
Then we have the case of the diminishing pages.
First of all they reduced the physical paper size down to A4.
Followed by not sending out the free disc's.
Then a years or so ago the average page quantity was 120 pages per issue.
Now, including front and back cover it's down to only 85 pages per issue.
As for it's forums, the advice that is and has been given "by the forum members" is usually excellent and can't be faulted.
But as for the running and management, well that leaves a lot to be desired.
And on that final note, "good-bye" CA/Vnu etc.edit:
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"by the forum members"