I won't be on the site for a minimum of 24 hours in support of a communal protest on the implementation of the untested "upgrade" that happened recently on TV.com. For me and many others, it's about the loss of "my" community.

While I miss the character of the old site and understand that various members of the community use this site in varying degrees, I have:

• spent hours doing careful research and adding to TV.com's db
• participated in forums about shows
• blogged and built my own user community

I am participating in "my" community's protest because I want to provide feeback as a "client" of this site. Yes, I appreciate that it's free and the infrastructure behind the site which keeps it running. I especially appreciate the unpaid moderators and staff members who patiently facilitate user community traffic.

I don't appreciate the rush for the upgrade without having long-time/advanced users do user testing and the really poor timing. I'm sure there would have been eager volunteers to have performed this duty. To implement a change during Fall Premieres? Bad idea.

There's no going back, but I hope in the future, changes will be handled better. I don't enjoy the site now and I don't feel like spending research time to add to the db.

Maybe the goal is to remove the blogging/community feature and focus on show forums only? I would loose most of my enjoyment of TV.com if that is the case. Whose loss is it?