Comments on: Meetro Abandoned for Lefora, A Hosted Forum Solution

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By: Noam

Noam — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:08:49 +0000

Hi Aaron,

Do you mind sharing your sources of information on market size and popularity of forums.

Thanks
Noam

By: karkunasourse

karkunasourse — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:50:08 +0000

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By: LK

LK — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:20:10 +0000

Looks as if they’ll be a winner in the forum space. Found it very easy to set up a site.

By: nonjizflilymn

nonjizflilymn — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:41:07 +0000

Goodday I’m new here
And it looks like a interesting forum, so just wanted to say hello! :):)
And looking forward to participating.
Going on vacation for a few days, so i’ll be back

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Polyphasic Sleep Forum « jorel314 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:45:07 +0000

[...] I discovered a hosted forum by Lefora. It was featured on Scobleizer and TechCrunch, so I thought i’d give it a [...]

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Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:14:00 +0000

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By: baah-baah-the-black-sheep

baah-baah-the-black-sheep — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:51:11 +0000

Just signed up to their forum. Looks very very basic. Lacking many important features. I can’t even disable replies on “sticky” posts!
We’ll see how it goes.

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By: ZiZi

ZiZi — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:55:17 +0000

Its good to know when its over and abandon a project, I had to make the same difficult decision 6 month ago myself.
I dont know much about the forums market so I am going to keep my mouth shut.
I know one of the guys at Meetro and he is a good man so I wish him the best.

By: Dana Koor

Dana Koor — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:21:17 +0000

bunch of idiots , I clicked on “SIGN ME UP” and got http://www.meetro.com/register – 404 Page not found

LOL, guess they couldnt find a server in my area to log me onto

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:25:13 +0000

the CEO just spammed me asking me to digg his site..
what kind of shady practice is he running.
I wouldn’t touch him or his software with a 6ft pole

By: origami_anarchist

origami_anarchist — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:16:39 +0000

I have to agree with several others that Martin Edic is way wrong. The internet world of forums is enormously broad, popular, and useful. I have dozens of bookmarks for active forums in my hobbies – computer technology, computer gaming, mercedes benz w124 class cars, parrots and other pet birds, woodworking, etc. etc. They use a wide variety of forum software, of varying sophistication and quality. I definitely think there is a market for a Blogger- or Wordpress- level entity in the internet forum space.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:16:16 +0000

I think this is fucking fantastic! I can’t wait to get started.

By: Luther

Luther — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:02:39 +0000

I thought Meetro was a great idea, but they added so many features and such a weird interface it became too much of a chore to figure out.

If the same people are involved….

There are a number of outfits that host forums for free, though one might have to put up with ads. Some demand a post every week or so to feed the hungry ads or the forum is deleted, e.g., http://www.forumup.org/ . Good for practicing how to manage a phpBB forum.

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Meetro、ホスティング付きフォーラム・ソリューション「Lefora」に業務移行 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:52:24 +0000

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By: Ron Kass

Ron Kass — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:51:30 +0000

Indeed Aaron is correct..
For example, we track today many millions of new posts a day coming from message boards where the vast majority is not programming related.
In fact, you can find forums for just about anything.. EVEN technophobia
Just take an example forums like disboards.com with over 150,000 members, all talking about vacations and Disney. or forums about cars, reptiles, handbags and even one that caters to people with keen interest in high/big buildings demolition.
And there are indeed, to our estimates over 350 million forum members.
I bet soon enough you will find such “strange” forums on Lefora, once non-TechCrunch crowd settles in..

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:30:06 +0000

Martin – you are wildly off base on forum popularity. I have seen estimates as high as 350m worldwide users, covering every demographic and interest area you can think of. We mine these types of communities for our clients and the activity is simply amazing. For example, in just road biking alone the aggregate community user (not viewer) base is about 300,000 with about 20-25 million posts. We are mining the teen demographic for a client and the boards there (everything from Nexopia to ellegirl to teenvogue) have about 2 million users and we have just started looking. If the only people you know who frequent forums are programmers you need to get out more .

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:26:09 +0000

Martin – I completely disagree. They’re a startup getting their way up to speed on what their product can do to bring in revenue. At least that’s what I would suspect is the gameplan at this point. It IS an untapped market because I’ve run into numerous people who would *like* their own branded/themed forum but couldn’t give a crap about php, mysql, linux, etc. If it works for blogger, blogspot, wordpress – why not forums?

Also – you underestimate the niche communities that live everywhere that comprise, what I would imagine to be, the majority of that 200M people. Just because you don’t see or know about them doesn’t mean they’re not there.

By: Martin Edic

Martin Edic — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:47:54 +0000

Let’s see…another horribly branded service with virtually no market demand and no revenue model. These are not businesses so why are you covering them? And where did that 200mm figure come from? The only people I know who frequent forums are programmers. Are you telling me that there are 200 million programmers out there?
Frankly, this kind of thing dilutes the value of Techcrunch- the fact that you report this stuff without questioning the legitimacy of their business model.

By: ilbert

ilbert — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:46:12 +0000

Meh... Vanilla forums, are just as much (if not more) flexible for themes and CSS, is Open Source, and can be hosted on your own server. Plus, there are hundreds of open-source add-ons that have been created by other users for Vanilla.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:09:32 +0000

Well, I guess this is good news. Me being one person working on something similar is a little disheartening – there’s only so much one person can do. It’s just good to see that others are working on the same space, thinking there’s something out there worth chasing.

Competition is good, but at this point there’s not much from my end to contribute to the competition. I’m interested in what good stuff Lefora will bring to the table . Congrats to their team for a pretty awesome product.

By: BoardTracker

BoardTracker — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:21:24 +0000

Good to see more new stuff on the boardscape!