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inside.com has more info about the redesign of latimes.com. one of the things they did is ditch all of the existing registered users because they couldn't figure out a way to transfer the user information between the old and new systems. nitwits. apparently they're also planning to charge for content, eventually. that will be a good way to get me to stop reading.
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"They'll also see how many are active enough to feel the need to re-up. No one at LATimes.com can even hazard a guess as to how many registered users they'll lose during the transition.
''As a matter of fact,'' says Barth, ''our tech staff just asked that question on Friday and we have no idea. But we think that it still is a very good exercise to go through.''"
To me it sounds like it was party a business decision... You have to be a pretty stooopid tech person to not find a way to move data between two databases you have some kind of access to.