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ARTICLE: Soap Central Acquired By India-Based Absolute Sports For $1.4 Million, Founder Dan Kroll to Exit


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I started reading Dan's site in 1990s, back when it was called "amcpages.com". He started out with just AMC information. He changed the site name to "soap opera central" when including other soaps, then soapcentral. For years I kept the site in my browser bookmarks as amcpages.com -- and whenever I clicked on that bookmark, it would automatically send me to soapcentral.com.

I started to cry at the end of this selling-the-site announcement youtube, because he concluded the video with the AMC theme music. It felt full circle.

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Thank you so much @JWDrama1980!!! 

It's a nice message from him. I have been visiting the website for sooooo long. Probably since early 2000s, because that's when I got internet on my computer when I was back in high school, and when I discovered the world of soaps online. So I can imagine how emotional this is for him and I can imagine how difficult it became to run it on his own. I hope this company, while changing the website layout, does not delete the content. Because that would be really sad. Good luck to Dan though!

Ah, so he is leaving the site after all? In his video he says he is remaining with the website. Or at least, that was my understanding. 

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Soap Central has officially changed its front page to the new format as it fully integrates itself into Absolute Sports and the layout the company uses for sites it owns such as Sportskeeda.

That said, there seems to be an effort to retain the Who's Who and About the Actor bios with links to the pages remaining under each show's menu list. Currently, the Who's Who continues to display pages using the old Soap Central design and the About the Actors page is not a page at all - it only lists the individual .php files for each actor. Also, the pages for the canceled soaps remain active, although the new website does not link directly to any of them.

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I like what they did with the recap pages as it looks like they went and re-formatted the ones for the current shows, and even sorted them by year (later, month):

B&B
https://www.soapcentral.com/bold-and-beautiful/bold-and-beautiful-recaps

DAYS
https://www.soapcentral.com/days-of-our-lives/days-of-our-lives-recaps

GH
https://www.soapcentral.com/general-hospital/general-hospital-recaps

Y&R
https://www.soapcentral.com/young-and-restless/young-and-restless-recaps

It also looks like they are working on new actor bios. You can see it only when you click on the links tagging actors at the bottom of article pages (quick links).

Example: Kate Mansi

https://www.soapcentral.com/actor/kate-mansi

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