[QUOTE=Mobster;2175434]I disagree. It became something less but started out ok. They were THE go-to source back when they started out. Others fell by the wayside. However, sites like MD (when John and Dave were there and after) and RX now (as well as various YT channels now) took up where Flex was ands carried it on beyond where they stayed.
When sites like Bodybuilding.com and later Amazon started doing webcasts Flexonline didn't. As I say - good start but dropped the ball.[/QUOTE]
When I worked for FLEX in 2012, it was when Robbie Durand was the Editor-in-Chief and Mike Salazar was doing a lot of stuff there, as well. They wanted to build up the forum on the site and we tried, but it never really caught on at all. The magazine was pretty good with ZKK doing his column and a bunch of top-name IFBB pros with their ghostwritten columns (I did about four of them every month).
The good thing with Robbie is that he recognized the need for video content on the site and did a lot of just that. Mainly interviews before and after shows and behind-the-scenes material from the on-location photo shoots.