I'm curious to know the date of that article.
Anyways, tgp2 wasn't a bad idea in theory, but a main problem is similiar to those that advocate the use of only softcore content.
Unless the majority of tgp1 sites followed suit, any traffic tgp2 sites had, was inevitably going to be lost once the surfer found a site that would show ALL of the thumbs on their galleries. Try to convince the hun that he should switch to tgp2.
Similarly, unless everyone stops using hardcore on their galleries, it's hard to go with softcore alone (softcore sites and nn niche notwithstanding). If 99.9999% of people started using softcore only (to promote hardcore sites), imagine how much traffic that one guy who still used hardcore pics would get to his galleries.
