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Re: Time For Something New

slickness isn't what's needed. There's piles of decent looking easy-to-install open source forum and classifieds software out there for decently looking slick sites. Eyecandy is a waste of time. content and traffic are king in this game. Selling a $4k amp with just text? Hell way more expensive stuff than that sells all the time on Craigslist and elsewhere with just text. Too much HTML is a scourge on the eyes. look at any junk dealer/power seller/wanker on ebay, most of them have garish rubbish-infested auction pages that are atrocious and painful to look at.

Look at other sites in other realms which do well... photography would be one example. photogon exists but it's a desert wasteland. no one uses it. why not? there are other better sites, which while maybe not as slick as photogoon, are way more interesting and community driven. Fredmiranda.com, Photo.net, apug.org, many others. Some are free and some charge for ads. But they are all getting way more traffic (thus, ads) than photogoon, which has basically no community.

building the site and the back-end database and server structures, and user-interface and whatnot is the easy part. (I do that for a liviing). The traffic/marketing/community buy-in is the hard part.

don't think this is all negative commentary, as the reason I am even bothering to post so much on this topic is I would like to see an alternative to audiogoon be born, grow and succeed. if I didn't, I would'nt waste my time with these replies.

FWIW
-Ed


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