The USCF is doing it again

Dan said:

Yeah, it was so successful that USCF is doing it again. See here.

So the story is, USCF created US Chess Live (USCL) as a free service for its members, then then sold out to GamesParlor for the high bid of $0, who started charging its "royal" (game-playing) members membership fees and renamed it Chess Live, and was about to go bankrupt when it was bought out by WCL, who are now offering free six-month memberships just like Chess Live used to in order to attract new members before hiking up membership prices again.