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I remember when rentacoder was a sure fire way to earn an extra couple of hundred bucks a month on the side and freelancer was just a bad joke.

Weird how things change.

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After the "change" from RentACoder to vWorker I've noticed a step decline in the quality of offers from employers (think 1$ to 30$ a project ...). Back in 2006 - 2010 RAC was a great place to make some money. In the last two years not so much.

This acquisition turned out terrible so far; all users were forced to migrate despite a significant functionality gap, money that had been Escrowed was returned to employers, the reputation was ruined due to a different (and unclear) scoring model...

A bunch of ex-vWorker hackers is working on a new platform - http://freelancers.io - the existing sites are becoming bigger and worse in quality. We'll try to bring the quality back.

did freelancer also acquire scriptlance??

Yes: http://blog.freelancer.com/general-announcements/freelancer-...

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