I might disagree there. I saw complaints about articles last year, but honestly didn't feel there was a ton of truth to them - the content had diminished a bit from the first two years of the online magazine, and they didn't have as many truly amazing articles, but there was plenty of articles of decent quality over the course of the year.
And the handful of problems that cropped up tended to get fixed in errata. Which remains the case - even with the new design process, we've had errata and fixes to mistakes that still show up.
I don't think the new design process is causing the delay. I think it is clear the magazines are currently way understaffed. I don't know where other resources have been diverted to, but it seems likely that is what has happened.
let me explain:
There were many great articles, but there were some articles that were outright bad. And I mean bad from a power creepy point of view. (At least in my opinion). And others that just filled the CB with rubble.
I don´t want rubble in my CB, neither do I want powers or feats that I have to say no to. There was enough of it in 3rd edition. (Which was a shame, as I really used to like 3rd edition before that).
So before I have a funktion that allows me to easily filter out that rubble and those things that I don´t want in the CB, i rather have articles delayed.
And I still believe they are in their ANOUNCED "expect it to get worse, before it gets better" phase.
Meanwhile there are new columns that don´t make our subscription more valuable, but could as well have been behind the paywall and could have made our subscription more valuable. Those articles were perceived as quite good.
After requesting that such articles belong in the free part of their website and now getting those informative and useful articles as free contend, we should maybe consider this month not totally lost.
Especially considering, that march is not over yet and we could easily get some good contend next week.
Oh, and when you say: but feburary adventures were too late... Their adventure design guidelines also changed, as there was a lot of whing about bad dungeon crawls...
If you just subscribed for one month, you also don´t have to complain: ok, no adventures for this february, but you are more than compensated by 50? adventures, all readily accessible for 7$?
