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Will they make an announcement if they did decide to shut the forums down or just take it off randomly one day without telling anybody?
They better not get rid of these, just get rid of the crappy main site, nobody uses it any more now it's had its god awful revamp.It's sad in a way an end of an era although I won't deny I don't enjoy the forum's as much as I used too. But there's still some real lovely human jewels on here members wise. |
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I would be very sad if the forums were to close, DS is the only forum i visit regularly (as in most days) and is far and away the biggest that i visit. A LOT of people would be very unhappy if this were to happen, DS isnt just a few forums, with the same people posting on them all, there are dozens of forums, hundreds of threads and thousands of fms posting on them - every day !
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Such a loss if the well loved and used Forum was to be snuffed out after all these years.
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I would be very sad if the forums were to close, DS is the only forum i visit regularly (as in most days) and is far and away the biggest that i visit. A LOT of people would be very unhappy if this were to happen, DS isnt just a few forums, with the same people posting on them all, there are dozens of forums, hundreds of threads and thousands of fms posting on them - every day !
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They surely won't get rid of such an excellent forum.
Such a shame if the did TheEric. |
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Seems people are getting a bit ahead of themselves at the moment, there has been no official mention or hints of closing the forums yet so no need to panic at this point.
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I don't post as much as I used to as I have moved offices and it isn't as easy to spend hours on here like I used to but I would miss it if it went. I've had some great advice and talked some bollocks and it's a nice way to spend free time.
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Seems people are getting a bit ahead of themselves at the moment, there has been no official mention or hints of closing the forums yet so no need to panic at this point.
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Do think the click bait crap on the front pages may survive and a lot of forums may go sadly.
Would rather it was the other way round |
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I know from my own experience that the up keep costs of running a forum aren't cheap. I can't imagine how much this one must cost to run. Its massive.
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DigtalSpy was purchased by a magazine publisher, seeing it as a way to expand its portfolio with an online "publication" it could expand and profit from.
Given how much advertising has taken over the site since then, and the prolific use of ad blockers (based upon the shear number of forum posters who mention them), I'm assuming the site doesn't make as much money as they were hoping. So I'd assume 'downsizing' to be mainly about the 'online publication' side of the site. Fewer interviews, less content, axed sections. This will probably mean less staff too. That leaves the forums, which I doubt make much money given the overheads for all those servers hosting the databases and scripts that generate the forum pages. So maybe we'll end up with slower and more broken forums over time, with all the old posts from years ago removed until someone finally pulls the plug. if money really gets tight, they might even ban the more frivolous threads like counting to a million or the last person to post is sexy, etc. Still, downsizing is bound to lead to a new broom making their presence felt at some point... visibly in the form of yet another highly popular and problem-free forum make-over! |
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I don't post as much as I used to as I have moved offices and it isn't as easy to spend hours on here like I used to but I would miss it if it went. I've had some great advice and talked some bollocks and it's a nice way to spend free time.
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DigtalSpy was purchased by a magazine publisher, seeing it as a way to expand its portfolio with an online "publication" it could expand and profit from.
Given how much advertising has taken over the site since then, and the prolific use of ad blockers (based upon the shear number of forum posters who mention them), I'm assuming the site doesn't make as much money as they were hoping. So I'd assume 'downsizing' to be mainly about the 'online publication' side of the site. Fewer interviews, less content, axed sections. This will probably mean less staff too. That leaves the forums, which I doubt make much money given the overheads for all those servers hosting the databases and scripts that generate the forum pages. So maybe we'll end up with slower and more broken forums over time until someone finally pulls the plug. Still, downsizing is bound to lead to a new broom making their presence felt... visibly in the form of yet another highly popular and problem-free forum make-over! Hope that makes sense - apparently I don't write very good posts
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Interestingly this is happening at a time when more and more sites are objecting to adblockers! Very much so in the last six months.
As people say the signs have been there for a considerable time. At the end of the day if something does not pay its way it closes. |
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I wonder what a graph going back ten years would look like. Quote:
I admit I use an ad-blocker. Do the ads only pay if people see/click on them then rather than the advertisers paying to place the ads on the site no matter whether people click on them? I don't know how it works.
Hope that makes sense - apparently I don't write very good posts ![]() Either way, you need a hell of a lot of clicks to make any real money from advertising on a site like this. That graph linked to above doesn't suggest they're getting them, which is probably why they're downsizing. |
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Oh my that's a dramatic drop. What do we think caused that in the space of a year?
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Oh my that's a dramatic drop. What do we think caused that in the space of a year?
Visitors to the forums - 98.17% - Visitors to the main site - 1.74% So, i suppose you could argue that the only 'downsizing' that would take place would be the main site because nobody visits it .. |
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I don't think we can blame Brexit for this one
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Scroll down the page even further and you see some rather dramatic figures ..
Visitors to the forums - 98.17% - Visitors to the main site - 1.74% So, i suppose you could argue that the only 'downsizing' that would take place would be the main site because nobody visits it .. |
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Oh my that's a dramatic drop. What do we think caused that in the space of a year?
Here's the .com graph - http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/digitalspy.com |
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Oh my that's a dramatic drop. What do we think caused that in the space of a year?
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I would be very sad if the forums were to close, DS is the only forum i visit regularly (as in most days) and is far and away the biggest that i visit. A LOT of people would be very unhappy if this were to happen, DS isnt just a few forums, with the same people posting on them all, there are dozens of forums, hundreds of threads and thousands of fms posting on them - every day !
That was fun til it got closed, are we a jinx on any forums we use?
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Perhaps a membership fee for forum members to counteract what they lose to ad blockers?
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They better not get rid of these, just get rid of the crappy main site, nobody uses it any more now it's had its god awful revamp.
