Mountain Project goes the way of Big Tech and AI

Got an email to beta test a new feature that will allow MPj to offer interactive topos and a paid premium access product. So they are planning to take our collective contributions and profit from them. Nothing is safe from becoming a product to capitalize on. Great job finding a way to be a leach on the community Mtn Proj. Looking forward to your contract with Meta or X for the "install cameras for safety at the crag" initiative. Make sure you sell them my data first. 

Maybe you can sponser the ticket booth for access to the Ouray Ice Park? Theyve been moving towards the same for-profit scheme for years now. 

This site was started by Silicon Valley Tech Bros (Nick and Andy), it was alway intended to be sold for profit . If it's free you're the product, no surprise. Only fitting that the new owners make money off it somehow. They gotta pay back all of the VC sooner or later. onxMaps has raised $194.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $87.0M Series B in October 2022. (source)

that'll slow down new beta contributions... eventually MP won't be current, and it will fall off and die