We were very early adopters of Ning. We never would have set up our sites under the current TOS. Under the "new Ning", our members aren't even ours anymore, they appear in a public directory and are informed about all of the other Ning networks they could join. Why bother growing our site? I feel like I'm fighting the tide here, and wasting my time working for Ning instead of working for myself.
Many other network creators have already said this, but I was planning on setting up another potentially large social network with Ning. I am now not going to launch it and will go off and find a better solution for it. I think the only way I can do this properly now without fear of a big corporation playing theTOS-shimmy is to write my own code.
It seems as though Ning is only interested in keeping members who set up networks for 5-20 people, who aren't internet-savvy, are teenagers or amateurs, or simply don't care about member privacy.
Needless to say, this is a major white-labelling FAIL and Ning are going to lose business because of it. They don't seem to understand what NCs of large sites really want.
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