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I’ve had a profile on recon.com since 2005, mostly to protect the use of my screen name, Booted Harleydude.<\/p>\nI’ve had a profile on recon.com since 2005, mostly to protect the use of my screen name, Booted Harleydude.<\/p>\n
I never used it to find other men or arrange hook-ups or dates. I had been happily married (or partnered) since 1993 and always remained monogamous.<\/p>\n
Other than preserving my screen name, I do not really know why I kept my profile on recon.com.<\/p>\n
After receiving another delinquency notice for not logging on for months, I visited the site to check in on June 10, 2026. <\/p>\n
I was appalled at the redesign. It is absolutely awful. It is not intuitive and what’s worse for me, is that when I logged on, it demanded to know my location so it could match me with other men.<\/p>\n
No! I don’t want that.<\/p>\n
Without much regret, I will delete my profile in about a month so the few friends I have connected with there may see my notice that I intend to drop off Recon and find me another way (I prefer old-fashioned email since I don’t text). <\/p>\n
Why do kids these days have to do such intense redesigns? What wasn’t broken didn’t need fixing.<\/p>\n
Old senior leathermen have little patience for that crap. Plus, I live in Canada about a half-year, so I have a different life now. Time to move on from my past.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BLUFTorontoEagle_26.jpg?resize=584%2C1168&ssl=1\")
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I’ve had a profile on recon.com since 2005, mostly to protect the use of my screen name, Booted Harleydude. I never used it to find other men or arrange hook-ups or dates. I had been happily married (or partnered) since … Continue reading