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Steve is great, one of his best: “straight it’s the new gay” https://youtu.be/6xxiK6Z4eXs If you like them (all the ones you listed are great!) you might also enjoy Jim Norton, abs a bit more British and one of my favourite Sean Locke

Then my framing is wrong. I am sure that it hasn't worked out for some forums, I am certainly not claiming it will work here either. Many platforms/companies have not successfully transitioned from growth/capital burning to profitable models. Thing is, its not just a forum, it is evolving into something new, they need to adapt. Lets hope that they can pivot if they do not get the desired outcomes.

Over monetization of anything never works for long. I get what you are saying but they are not speaking of monetizing the forums, they are speaking of limiting the topics of the free forums. Yes, the Bikehub would not be here without the vibrant discussions, but it is here now. Its a standard platform model. Low barrier during growth phase, then once scale has been reached, hopefully critical scale, you switch and recoup the years of investment, capital and time.... Telling them they cannot capitalize on that, is the opposite of being objective. Look, I'm not overly eager to have the threads removed. Yes there will be customer lost but its a risk they are taking with what they have built, I am sure(hope) that customer elasticity modelling has been done.

Trust me I'm not, I have a little understanding of the digital platform markets. How has the subscription model devalued the Bike Hub experience for you? What's wrong with putting items that warrant and has value behind a pay wall? Perhaps to reframe your question, for how long do we expect Matt and the team to not evolve and grow their business simply so that we can argue about Trump or talk Formula 1? I think some of this its still probably being taken too personally, understandably so as we all have invested time and effort into this community.

From a longer term roadmap, I can see why they would want to move to a platform type model. Question is are forums the most efficient way to drive this? There are other ways of driving appropriate traffic to the monitorization funnels of the platform, networks, complementaries, affinities etc. I can understand why it might feel that way, but I don't think that's the case necessarily. Perhaps due to the many years invested here, we might be taking some of this too personally. I'm not a fan, but I understand why they need to redeploy their limited resources elsewhere. Perhaps a solution is to segregate the chit chat into a separate site/brand but connected page, and allow community moderation in that.

There is a bit of Buch's in all of us

I think they are stating these its not massive.

eBikers already identify as cyclists.

The 90s called, they want their words back.

A consideration for Matt and team. If the idea is monetize the classifieds, it might make sense to open the comments again, but then to have a resource who moderates the comments. Those comments, if kept in check, are extremely valuable to the buyers and sellers and will ultimately increase the over value of the market place section. Invest a little yourself, leverage the crowd and make it more valuable to everybody..

Great alternative title to the movie 'Catch me if you Can' .

Now that LDs have lifted and the Trump has been voted out, both the COVID 2.0 and Trumpf 2.0 threads have simmered down nicely.

He was a hero and inspiration to many! “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.”

Difficult to make an exciting film when the Merc is sooo dominant.

Thats anybody's guess. What we do know, is that he would have had a nice whinge about it!

Eina fokkit. Good luck dude.

"a bit wet and chills" wins understatement of the year! I am still defrosting!

Yeah, he would be smart to do that, nobody want to do a Rossi/Ducati move.

Maybe LH will switch teams to see/show if he can win in another car and then claim “the greatest” title?

Updated.

Russel just screwed himself. No way that Lewis will let Toto sign him now.

This is really good, I really like this!

If those are the numbers of Chit Chat, it’s a very easy decision. Kill it. There will be fallout and people will be upset. But if there is such scale outside of the Chit Chat, then BikeHub will survive.

Yes, it was a No Ball.