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Acquisition Update

We’re happy to report that we have a bit more information we can now share publicly with you.  While Cyndx LLC took over Ning operations last week, they were ultimately outbid by another company, which has entered into an agreement with Mode Media to acquire Ning.  We can’t yet share the name of this company with you but will make an official announcement tomorrow with more information.

In the meantime, our team is keeping their heads down working to resolve accessibility issues, squash new and outstanding bugs, and answer your tickets and calls.  We’ve started tracking some of the more visible bugs (and their fixes) on our new Known & Recent Resolved Issues page.  You can also find this page listed nestled under the top-level News tab from any page on our Creators Network.

We also know that October 1st is fast approaching, and you have questions about the stated price increase.  Please stay tuned, as we’ll provide an update on that, as well, in tomorrow’s announcement.

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    • What I think is weird is that nothing seems to be the same. Some sites are up, some are down; when those sites are down the others are back up;  you've got your heading I've got nothing but white space and type:

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  • I've been with Ning for 8 years, meaning I was here before it was a paid format.  I was lucky enough not to have my site go down this weekend, but have been working on size reduction, because there's no way I can afford the 51% price increase for Ning 2.0 on a fixed income, and must downgrade..  

    Access to my dashboard disappear for most of Sunday and Monday, meaning there was no way to tell what their estimate of my site's space usage.  The ticket I've been waiting for a response to since last Friday, notified them that although I've deleted massive number of games I was running on the site, the graphics associated with them did not disappear, and I can still post a whole database full of code (for those images) and each and every one of them pulls up the original image. That means that their API 80 files are still being associated with my site size. This is a major problem, so anyone else who is in a downgrade mode should be aware that the dashboard report of the space you're using is totally incorrect.  I was told that they cannot provide a list of these files, which says to me that probably everyone's graphic files were dumped into that space and cannot be segregated to provide us with a true size usage.  Video, Music, and membership uploads of photos are all delete-able, but uploaded images for your site are not. 

  • People need to be patient I think. A new owner is coming in and they will need to make their intentions clear, and hopefully they will set out a plan that will allow Ning to have a medium term life as a minimum.  That owner will need to make a commitment to fix 3.0 and make it the great network that it can be. Depending on the price they are paying to acquire it,  Ning can still generate a good cashflow on an annual basis. If 3.0 become the best network around then the proposed price may be worth it. You can't have quality at a nothing price. When I first discovered Ning I couldn't believe it was so cheap, and cheap does not always equate to good. If we get a positive statement from the new owners and see some progress that people need to get on board. If it is being purchased for other reasons, that will soon become clear. Remember Cyndx has a director that was part of the Mode set up, so a clean break may be better. 

    • I agree... Even with the price increase it's still much cheaper than Jamroom at $720,00 a year.

      • ours will be 1200.. 600 is fair.. if they go 700 for pro would be also considered fair.. 1200 no.. and I think allot are missing this number which is what we are being charged in new year.. as many as I see saying 60 a month is average for all platforms they forgetting ours will be 100 a month.. so hope new post considers some new reasonable prices for some like us..

    • I have paid members who I am not able to contact or update because I have no idea if my site is going to ever work again. Us Creators have not been given any status updates until yesterday and it doesn't even give us a timeline. There is no way to get an answer or any solid support from them. My site looks like it's been taken down and it ain't coming back. I have no patience for this. I paid my good money to Ning for service, my members are paying theirs to me and now Creators are expected to pay double of what we have been paying. For what? We have no idea. This is not even close to being good customer service. For our loyalty and putting up with crap service for about a year, we expect more and should be getting it.

      • P.S. I have 6 subscribers as of Sunday who have paid but have no access. What do I say to them?

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          • That would be easier if there hadn't been some months now of increasing problems with Ning...  I have a major event next week, the final email of which was to have gone out on Tuesday to my 24,000 members on one of my sites--a site that is not working, and the cost of not being able to email out is substantial.  That there haven't been any updates on the problems that are now listed on the new issues page, that what many of us thought was just being patient while operations transferred to the company we were told was they buyer, and that now there's a new company but no name or details and no direct communication with us is just taxing...  and the end of a long rope of Ning not treating paying customers well.

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              • I had no way of telling my members anything because the site was down. Sunday was a major event for us and I could only contact a few admins of my site. 

                • If you're on a 2.0, you need to export your member CSV every quarter, at the very least so you can, at the least, email them from an outside service.  Hope the event was still able to take place.  That's difficult indeed.

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