Thursday, July 14, 2005
A while back I was blogging about how an online community i belonged to, OutintheUK.com, was going to change its name to something far less appropriate; namely UpandDoing.com. In the end so many people complained about the name choice that the people behind it changed their mind at the last minute about the whole thing.
The name change was really just the tip of a very large iceberg of changes that the site had planned. Mid-May saw a complete redesign and a large increase in membership fees; it also saw a rapid decline in membership as the new look (known as NuOUT) was pretty much universally hated. Out's founders had come along, knocked down the slums and replaced them with lovely new towerblocks. The trouble is, history shows, people don't like towerblocks.
Out's radical redesign and 'ethnic cleansing' of its free users has cleared the way for a whole new breed of gay communities based of off the same ideal of a mainly-non-porn online world for homos. All of them are pretty new and also pretty small right now. The big decision is which one to go with.
I've signed up with two www.thingbox.com and www.outontheinternet.com so far and to be honest both communities are so small it's hard to get a feel for them. Thingbox certainly looks the part. OutontheInternet needs a bit more work.
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