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Looks like some sites are still up, just have to find a different one for now, until it disappears. 

Due to a LOT of old legal issues with many parts of the local sites, we had to urgently shut them down. We also had no resources to improve them. We'll look at making some small/incremental improvements where it makes sense down the road, but this had to be done. I hated it too. We have some (we hope) positive changes coming to points down the road, and no one can get points now for news, so no reason to think you're disadvantaged.

We are actively migrating old sites to re-directs, so all pages will eventually forward to similar style pages. We're not getting rid of price spotters, of course not.

I'll try to respond here when I can, so if questions can be consolidated, that's appreciated.

Have you done away with Reading news articles and polls. I see no way to accomplish either of these daily/weekly tasks. I am so angry with Gas Buddy right now. I give you a week to fix it. I am ready to quit Gas Buddy!!

"Old legal issues" just sounds dumb.  I've thought for a long time they were going to shut down the web-based site and migrate to the app.  I use both.  The website was good for picking up some extra points, but I don't need points.  I still used the DM feature to stay in contact with a handful of the old GBs.  I've been checking the past few days to see if a member I regularly correspond with had replied.  When I tried to access the Memphis site this morning it had been converted to the new "national" format, and my Inbox was gone.  The very least they could have done was put a big note on the front page of each local site alerting people to the change, not burying the news in a blog post that I'm pretty sure most people didn't see since other than a random new blog post on the front page, the same two blog posts from 2021 have been there for over 3 years.  The "million" one and the "refinery inventory" one.

I finally found an 8-2-24 blog post from the mods that announced they were doing away with the local sites.  Why they couldn't migrate the DM feature to the new site I can only assume (1) they're saving a little server space like they did when they did away with the forums a few years ago (leading to the formation of THIS board), and (2) as has been my thought all along, the new owners really couldn't care less about the old-timers who worked to help build their site.  I spent HOURS, volunteer hours, of my own free will, beginning in 2006 entering stations into the MSL, and I never complained about it.  No one was twisting my arm.  Back then though it felt like a community of "buddies."

Are the MSL and DMs gone now, too?  Trying to make changes to the MSL has been difficult in recent years.  You make changes, hit submit, and nothing changes.  To this day there are stations around Memphis that have the former brands on the app because changes to the MSL weren't being saved.  I've been a member for 19 years.  Others have been here longer than that.

Come on, owners.  You can do better.  OLD legal issues shouldn't have constituted an emergency.  Something smells.

Here's the Blog post that was referred to:

www.gasbuddy.com/go/local-sites

It’s been years since I’ve been here and posted anything. Thank you to all who added their comments regarding these changes to what was once a much better system. The day they moved to the app and started the challenges was the beginning of the end. Very disappointing. Take care everyone.