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I've been hearing about this decline in popularity for about 10 years now. If it were true, there'd be no one left to subscribe to the magazine by now. Look, the fact is, people who complain there's been no coverage of small layout are simply wrong. I can point to any month's copy and show them to you. In fact, they're running a whole series on Iain Rice's desktop layout right now, and it's a very nice layout indeed. The "GMR" annual typically feature several small layouts as well. The staff traditionally builds a project layout on a 4'x6' or 4'x8' every year or two. That runs as a complete how-to series. What more do you want than that? In term of the DCC vs. DC issue, this magazine has always been about advancing the hobby. One day, DC will be dead and DCC will be it. To pretend otherwise is closed-minded. And people who want to learn DCC deserve to see it featured by a professional publication. I don't use it yet, but I'm reading and learning and will eventually convert. Your 3 to 5 teams (6 to 10 people) would cost a minimum of $180,000 in salary alone each year, and never mind the huge travel expenses your plan would entail. Where would that money come from? Increased subscription fees? Oh, yeah, I can imagine the hue and cry on this board if THAT happened, regardless of the content improvement. The magazine can't be all things to all people. I'll tell you this, though: I've tried to read RMC and the rest. Poorly written, poorly edited, bad photo quality, bad reproduction. If I absolutely must have the data in one issue, I'll buy it, but I don't bother to subscribe to them. I'll stick with MR.
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