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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

I don't think avex will allocate more funds to making TA truly good until & unless people stop sharing things early, though.

And honestly, back when the club was Japan-only, I understood sharing stuff like the screensavers and magazine scans and photos and such... but now that it's open globally, I feel like AHS mods really should ban the sharing of TA stuff here at least, and I think those of us who are members should make an effort to discourage sharing elsewhere by stopping following the news feeds on facebook & twitter that show TA stuff, and/or letting them know that we're unfollowing them because of it.

If more of us are forced to join to see what's new and interesting, TA will be able to hire people to help make TA better - a developer to fix the site's bugs and optimization problems, another translator, a few folks to add old TA content back to the site maybe (like English translations of old making-of and video shoot reports) - and maybe TA could manufacture some of the TeamAyu goods that global fans never got a chance to buy, like the gel A-logo keychains or the multicolored shippo straps, that kind of thing.

I'd also like to see the BBS come back so that TeamAyu members on both sides of the world can communicate with one another, because I don't like that ayu fans feel like her attention has to be divided between them, and if one side wins, another side loses... promoting fan unity is a really really good idea, I think.

I totally agree with you.