@ Miss naughty - Looks like we started the same year so we have seen and been through the same changes, some good and some not so good, but AW is deffinately still my fav site to work.
@Country Girl - SM is a big Amercan site, it depends on how you like to work, totally different ball game to AW, we keep just 35% and it's much harder to get paid if you are not in the Sates or not on DP. Like all sites there are pluses and minus's, for me it's just a bit extra, at least untill I can get fibre bb so I can use the poxy encoder on there lol. From what I have read they too are going through a downturn and finding it harder to make the money, so maybe it is a global issue after all?
And yes I really do think the DOS attack hit hard, I'm sure the site was down for a week or more, a long time if like me, camming is your main income and AW is your main site! If nothing else the episode taught me a valuable lesson in eggs and baskets
. Either way the site is certainly not as busy/dependable as it was before the attack. I guess a lot of regular fans got 'distracted' and 'lured' to other sites and never came back.
As much as it is frustrating for us workers, the glitches and general fuck ups must piss the fans/clients off too, I know if my favourite shoe store (I'm a woman get over it!), started closing early or not opening on odd days, kept buying inappropriate styles for the store and cocking up my online orders, damn right I would shop else where.