I sure miss Catman and PremEx on FlyerTalkboard - and (still) consider both of them to be real friends.

Flyers'-Places has been launched long before PremEx and Catman left FlyerTalk and was, when launched, not at all intended to be an alternative to FlyerTalk. To the contrary, the charter members of Flyers'-places wanted to complement FlyerTalk (without any comercial interests of their own) and informed Randy.

The motiv behind Flyers'places was, after having seen multiple times the same questions being asked on Flyertalk (and responded to) about the same places (hotels and restaurants) worldwide, to create an easy to lurk board for the specific information.

I guess it is easy(ier) to critisize than to do better ...