Gainesville Sun Newspaper brings back their sports forum

[GatorInKnox]

Oh my Gawd the layout is terrible on a desktop. It's not too bad from a phone but they won't get many posters if they don't change it for desktop/laptop users.

 

[Gator Fever]

http://forum.gatorsports.com/topic/26375-official-2013-gator-football-predictions/?hl= official 2013


lol - Law was right he had us going 8-4 or 7-5 before 2013. I still can't believe my 11-1 prediction.

 

[TheDouglas78]

If you read their fine print and fourum rules the members of their IT department are going to be the mods. How does that IT department have time for such trival things.

 

[GatorInKnox]

If you read their fine print and fourum rules the members of their IT department are going to be the mods. How does that IT department have time for such trival things.

I'm just amazed they have an IT department.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

http://forum.gatorsports.com/topic/26375-official-2013-gator-football-predictions/?hl= official 2013


lol - Law was right he had us going 8-4 or 7-5 before 2013. I still can't believe my 11-1 prediction.

Of course Law was right. Why would I lie about my public prediction?

FWIW I'm still feeling the 5 losses this year.

 

[oxrageous]

If you read their fine print and fourum rules the members of their IT department are going to be the mods. How does that IT department have time for such trival things.

They don't. That's insane.

Part of me thinks this may actually help us, not hurt us. At any rate, there's always going to be competition, you just have to try and have a better product. It was always in the back of my mind that they may pull this stunt. I know for a fact there were several people at the Sun that strongly disagreed with the order to pull the forum in the first place. They must have finally won their argument.....or the declining numbers changed some minds at the top.

 

[ATXGator]

They probably saw how many people kept clicking on their link for forums during the season expecting them to come back and realized this is what the users want. Uh... duh!

 

[williston_gator]

It will surely be a ghost town over there.

 

[GatorInKnox]

They don't. That's insane.

Part of me thinks this may actually help us, not hurt us. At any rate, there's always going to be competition, you just have to try and have a better product. It was always in the back of my mind that they may pull this stunt. I know for a fact there were several people at the Sun that strongly disagreed with the order to pull the forum in the first place. They must have finally won their argument.....or the declining numbers changed some minds at the top.

When the board was up I would occasionally click over and read some of their mediocre articles. I haven't done that in months. I know I'm not the only one.

 

[GatorInKnox]

I'm seeing it as a good thing Ox. If we find any stragglers still over there we can PM them.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

They can make GIGator/John "Its always rosey" Curtis a mod and BulldogAwburnGator/Turk, the angry pumper, can be his firstmate.

 

[Gator Fever]

They must be trying to have a white out with that new layout.

 

[Gator Fever]

They can make GIGator/John Curtis a mod and BulldogAwburnGator/Turk can be his first mate.

That is the reason I like this place because you have the differing views and people don't get censored for not towing the company line like at the combo pay sites. You need a balance of the sunshine pumpers/debbie downers for a better discussion.

 

[QueenCityGator]

Great, now I can reread the epic meltdown threads after the Georgia Southern loss . . .

 

[TheDouglas78]

They don't. That's insane.

Part of me thinks this may actually help us, not hurt us. At any rate, there's always going to be competition, you just have to try and have a better product. It was always in the back of my mind that they may pull this stunt. I know for a fact there were several people at the Sun that strongly disagreed with the order to pull the forum in the first place. They must have finally won their argument.....or the declining numbers changed some minds at the top.

That is probably the reason. Lead up to football and their click through traffic was probably dropped by 80%. The next 5 months is where they probably make the majority of their click through revenue.

 

[Swamp Queen]

Wow...that site is ugly!

 

[TheDouglas78]

In a former job I did some web development. I would be embarrassed to put a product that looks like that live. It is poorly structured and has too much "white space".

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Wow...that site is ugly!

I'll bet Queenie doesn't have me blocked over there.

I should send her a pm.

 

[GatorJ]

Somebody started a thread there (BNA?) saying the site was ugly and a few of us posted on it in support.

And they effin' deleted it.

What a joke.

 

[GatorGrad]

Yep they already took away my topic