[scarecrowbob]

I learned to play guitar back in the 90s when the OLGA was still a thing.

UG sucks for precisely the reasons you mention.

I suppose the trade-off is that now all the great folks who were making nice tab content are on YT, but still, if you'r business model is making money off aggregating a bunch of content people created in the early 00s because the love of it, then that's hyper lame.

I still use UG if I am in a hurry and want a quick idea of other folks' take on the structure of a song, but I'm thankful I outgrew the need for other folks' transcriptions.

[phasersout]

I disagree.. I learned guitar in the late 80s and getting tabs back then meant to get on the train, drive an hour into the city pay like 20 to 30 bucks for - one album worth of tabs - lets say "Appetite for Destruction" and drive home another hour... and then a lot of this "official tabs" were complete rubbish...

So Ultimate Guitar is a steal really. I got a lifetime subscription a couple of years ago but I would also sign up for a monthly plan gladly.

[soylentcola]

Heh...a guy I knew in college got a meeting with admin when he thought it would be cool to host an OLGA mirror on his university web storage around 1995 or 1996.

[rtsil]

OLGA was the Eldorado for my teen self. Its demise was a disaster.

I still have a full copy of its archives somewhere collecting dust in my old hard drives.

[heuermh]

I do too, let me know if you know/think of a good place to host these. UG must be one of the most user hostile resources I've ever attempted to use.