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RefME Bought by Cite This for Me (refme.zendesk.com)
6 points by polyphuckin 3431 days ago
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I love RefME, use it for everything, started using it after using Cite This for Me became too annoying to use and bigger projects meant that I would have to find the money to buy a membership (which I don't have) to stop my references expiring after only 7 days. RefME has a lot of great features that CTFM doesn't have and it actually works well and looks good. This is why this is so annoying, it is essentially a downgrade. What I want to know is how much Chegg bought RefME for, to see if the price was fair for such an amazing and free service. I'll miss RefMe, does anyone know of any alternatives to CTFM?
Ex-employee here, left a while before this process started. We had a really strong product, and loyal and growing user base, who rated us over Cite This For Me consistently. It's a shame for the users that it ended this way, I naively hope that CTFM pull their finger out and improve their product
RefMe was amazing. The integration of app, folders, web clipper, annotations and all that were amazing and it saved me such a headache in my dissertation. It was a brilliant product.

I get the feeling from the FAQ that who ever wrote that isn't best pleased either, looks like they took great pleasure in highlighting the differences between the two.