Things Are Getting Bad on the Other Huddle

• Glory Days

  

  any former MODs over there have any inside knowledge on how many members have paid to signup so far?
• FanOfCats

  I picked it out of the air... as an example.
  
  There were 150,000 registered users..... so I made the assumption that 20% were active. No basis for my thoughts, just pointing out that "$1 a month" was not exactly accurate. It's $12 a year (all at once)... A serious cash infusion if a significant number of huddlers signed up.... of course, they found out that hardly anyone fell for it.
  
  From the looks of things, less than 1% swallowed the hook
• Curly J

  

  I actuallly checked there numbers. (Very Rough numbers)
  
  68% of the members have ZERO posts !!!
  29% have 1-99 posts !!!
  3% have more than 100 posts !!!
• Cleveland Buck

  

  The other night when a couple of guys were over there spamming the bleacher seats, I found a 3 day old thread by a guy about GLIAC basketball that had only 1 reply and it was the guy replying to his own thread, and I bumped it saying, "Let me bump this for you so you don't have to talk to yourself." I thought I was making a clever point to the idiots over there. Anyway, I just went over there to see what was going on, and the guy replied to me saying thank you. I just felt bad for him because there isn't anyone over there, so I sent him a PM telling him where to go. I'm going to try no getting banned so I can save the wayward souls over there.
• Glory Days

  

  poor guy, kinda feel bad for him.
• MrPoke

  

  Anyone know if they are checking the PM's?
  I know most of the permabands are for spamming, but how likely is it to get banned over there from sending a few PM's mentioning freehuddle.
• tiger1990

  Here everybody is!! Thanks to Blackdog for the heads up. It's only been a week, but I was so bummed I started a Facebook page. I have not even looked at JJ in a week. What a collosal brain fart...first to let anyone on JJ then to alienate the core by reneging on the lifetime subscription.
  
  Can I get my 4,000 + posts back...?
• FanOfCats

  Curly J wrote: I actuallly checked there numbers. (Very Rough numbers)
  
  68% of the members have ZERO posts !!!
  29% have 1-99 posts !!!
  3% have more than 100 posts !!!

  Wow. And I bet a lot of those 1-99 were made in the past week.
  
  Thanks for the info. But now it really has my head shaking. Did they know they had a customer base of only about 4500 people? And if so, was it worth all of this for $50K a year???? Perplexing!
• dwccrew

  

  There is no other Huddle. This is the one and only.
• redfalcon

  

  I also looked at the numbers. Only about 4500 members had 100 or more posts, and nearly a third of those people hadn't posted in months. So about 3000 active members. Lets say about ten percent paid, which seems high to me, but at ten percentn we get 300. Minus about 50 for the mods, etc., that leaves us with 250 X 12 =3000. I'm guessing somewhere around here. I would definetely think it couldn't be higher than $5000. I really don't think that this will make up for the lost ad revenue or that all of the pay members will keep paying. Sure they will get a few new users, but not many. I definetely agree, though, this seems like a total desperation move.
  
  And on an ammusing not, freehuddle is a banned word over there. Hahaha!
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Freehuddle has been censored over there since before they made the switch.
• Curly J

  

  It has been banned for a while I thought.
• Be Nice

  I thought I saw JJ flipping burgers at the Wendy's on Riverside Drive. If not then he has a twin.
• BuckeyeBlue

  

  I got back onto JJs after a few years in the Navy as a way to keep up with high school sports in Ohio. Shortly thereafter I discovered the ST/I forum and started posting there again. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for it when there are so many other options available. They made the mistake of believing their content was more important than the people in the forums. Let's face it, the articles over there aren't going to win any journalistic awards anytime soon.
• WebFire

  Curly J wrote: I actuallly checked there numbers. (Very Rough numbers)
  
  68% of the members have ZERO posts !!!
  29% have 1-99 posts !!!
  3% have more than 100 posts !!!

  So if you estimate 20% of "active" members paying the $12, that is only 900 members, or $10,800.
• fan_from_texas

  ptown_trojans_1 wrote: I honestly do not visit the site anymore, haven't had a need. It is sort of sad, but hey, out of the whole deal, we got the freehuddle. So, a blessing in disguise really.

  Indeed.
• Trueblue23

  

  It's a ghost town, serves them right.
• se-alum

  

  I check-in over there once a day to watch the train wreck. It really is a sad state of affairs. A once great site driven into the ground by people that think they are more skilled than what they are. The content was a joke, at best. Hardly anyone read it, and when they did, it was easy to see the lack of journalistic skill. They should've trimmed the fat(content), left it free, and used the ad revenue to bulk up the site equipment wise. It sucks that the site has taken a nose dive, but I don't feel a bit bad for Frantz & Natali.
• derek bomar

  

  Frantz & Natali can eat it
• LJ

  

  FanOfCats wrote: Cat Food Flambe', Yes it was a survival decision. But I wonder how much of the financial sitation was market driven (reduced ad revenue) and how much was self-induced (paid too much for a site that really had no intrinsic value and/or increased expenditures due to poor spending decisions). They put a lot of money into "content" that wasn't really worth anything (remember, folks paid for the "premium" content), so that decision didn't generate much revenue. And the cost of creating that content is high.
  
  They have to have a product offering beyond the opinion and postings of huddlers. Message boards just don't offer uniqueness unless there is specific content that can't be found elsewhere.
  
  
  If their decision to purchase JJ was based on ad revenue potential, then they should have controlled costs and introduced content as they could afford it. If their decision to purchase was to charge folks for reading other's opinions.... bad idea. NO product there at all

  
  I have never purchased something I couldn't go touch. I have never owned stock in an internet company, and never plan to.
• Thunder70

  

  I agree. This site is a lot better atmosphere wise. Great job!
• cbr97

  Does anyone know about how many members are on this site now? Just curious.
• dwccrew

  

  Be Nice wrote: I thought I saw JJ flipping burgers at the Wendy's on Riverside Drive. If not then he has a twin.

  Was he working next to that one armed girl that works at Wendy's?
• dwccrew

  

  cbr97 wrote: Does anyone know about how many members are on this site now? Just curious.

  Newbie. You can check that on the bottom of the homepage.
• thedynasty1998

  

  I just got an email from someone on the other Huddle that I knew who sent an email to about 10 people pimping out freehuddle.com.
  
  I guess not everyone over there knows about this site yet.