So why did we switch exactly…?

I would imagine they use the membership stats to sell the advertising. Most likely they've already sold off all the email addresses if they have any value. So, considering the large number for the membership, they could ride the advertising revenue for sometime.

Buying up assorted website forums as a business venture is a new one for me so I honestly don't know how they do make money from the scheme but they wouldn't be doing it if it didn't pay in some way or fashion.

This is why we can't have anything nice .... 🤨

(fortunately, we have three fantastic members that simply built a new site in record time where we could escape ... not all website forums are so lucky)
 
dflett68 said:
if they care about content, clicks, engagement, post count, etc. - i expect they've just lost the vast majority of theirs directly to this site. even though only ~400 people are here, versus (ostensibly) 17K at wff, i wouldn't be surprised if that core group accounted for 70%-85% of posts on wff. actually i wouldn't surprised if it was more than that. that's a lot of product. the revenue stream is tied to it. if their plan was to maintain wff as a regional product with the same branding - they've suffered a mighty loss. if their plan was to rebrand and expand it's reach, i would think that will be tough without all of the engagement they just lost. they'd have to reestablish a new core - and that will take time. and in that time the stats they pitch to advertisers will drop, and revenues/margins with them. maybe they planned for that contingency, maybe that's the way these things typically go for them and they are nonplussed by all this. but if their business plan was built on the engagement of this group that disappeared overnight and they didn't expect that, i'd expect them to have an array of motivations to look around. especially because it is so easy to do.

all speculation, it's not an industry or business i know about. and of course there's no telling, for now, what they shelled out to buy wff - or what the revenue stream is. being a public company, eventually i would expect that information to be available in their filings - in 2Q22, hopefully. that'll be a fun thread.
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Small is good... keep reading about more scams in the classifieds on the old block. Lots of good folks here.
 
dflett68 said:
at this moment, PNWFF has 11% of it's members online, while WFF has 1/100th of 1% online. if you're like me you'll want to re-read that second number to make sure you get the magnitude of the delta. if the advertising piece is important to them, that hurts. it's no different than a superbowl ad - low eyeballs means low ratings means low ad prices. if all they wanted was a one-time purchase of PII and demographic data, then maybe they don't care. but advertisers will care, and when the reporting interval catches up with those actuals, ad prices will go down.
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Got it.
 
My guess is they were hoping for something more like what happened with ifish. When they took that forum over, everyone complained and grumbled, a few left, but nobody cared enough to move on. At this point, they're complacent and it runs, business as usual, but a bit dialed back from what it used to be. I've thought about doing something similar to see if I could siphon off their users, but I doubt it'd get the same response.
 
Mark Yoshida said:
It’s tough to Delete or scrub when people replied and it contained your info.
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Not very many actually replied directly; was easier than I thought. Jump over to WFF, search my moniker, if so inclined, and see the vast (Proactively Deleted)…😉
 
jim ficklin said:
4 hours?!? I'd brag about it!
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Evan Burck said:
My guess is they were hoping for something more like what happened with ifish. When they took that forum over, everyone complained and grumbled, a few left, but nobody cared enough to move on. At this point, they're complacent and it runs, business as usual, but a bit dialed back from what it used to be. I've thought about doing something similar to see if I could siphon off their users, but I doubt it'd get the same response.
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Evan, Aren't you supposed to be on vacation .??
 
dflett68 said:
btw, @swimmy , that hometalk forum might be up your alley..."home, cooking and fashion communities..."
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Thanks! I'm always looking to make new friends on the internet
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I check WFF daily to see how its going in the fall out shelter. I did note a bit of political banter there. Some guy named Swimmy said something about “worst President ever” that was fun he does carry a pretty big spoon in his beautiful tone of greige holster I believe.
 
Who is Casting Couch anyway? I know it has to be someone from here.
 
Roper said:
I can’t follow this shit after a couple of whiskeys and beers…damn…
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Are you back to drinking Boilermakers ? I can't follow the stuff sober. damm I hate diabetes, for having to give up the one thing I was good at for medical reasons
 
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