What's up with RMweb recently?

[njee20]

Yeah keeps crashing for me too. They're teetering on the brink I'd say. They've got a big membership, so can weather some attrition, but if it doesn't improve then people will leave. A week of this is poor, 3 months? C'mon!

[Trainfish]

 

[The Q]

The other annoying thing is I use two other forums (not railway) that use the same basic software as RMWEB, one is a comparatively quiet forum, the other makes RMWEB look tiny. Neither have the problems of RMWEB.

[tutenkhamunsleeping]

The other annoying thing is I use two other forums (not railway) that use the same basic software as RMWEB, one is a comparatively quiet forum, the other makes RMWEB look tiny. Neither have the problems of RMWEB.

Perhaps they're configured more for the forums rather than advertising platforms?

[The Q]

The other annoying thing is I use two other forums (not railway) that use the same basic software as RMWEB, one is a comparatively quiet forum, the other makes RMWEB look tiny. Neither have the problems of RMWEB.

Perhaps they're configured more for the forums rather than advertising platforms?

The quiet one has no Advertising as it's users sponsored and run by volunteers.
The big one does have adverts, but not as many as Warners are trying to inflict on everyone. They also are direct from the sponsoring companies not via google ads

[njee20]

I'm certain they could have done a better job of it. There are thousands of forums out there relying on advertising revenue, but their implementation started poor and has got worse! Not really helped by the fact Andy York is pretty hostile whenever anyone asks a question, admittedly I'm sure it's exasperation at the situation and the constant questions, but a banner saying "yeah we know it's rubbish" and curt messages with threats of bans for 3 months isn't really a solution!

[tutenkhamunsleeping]

Just out of interest, I did a quick visit to both sites without browsing/clicking through to any further pages.  Basic data from my browser (Safari)

[njee20]

Comparisons like that are useless though. RMWeb is a commercially run forum many orders of magnitude bigger than the NGF, which is run on a shoestring by one bloke, with no offence to Tank! That doesn't mean they're doing a good job of it though.

[tutenkhamunsleeping]

Comparisons like that are useless though.

Quite the opposite. Comparisons like that are fundamental to where I spend my armchair time

[jamespetts]

Comparisons like that are useless though. RMWeb is a commercially run forum many orders of magnitude bigger than the NGF, which is run on a shoestring by one bloke, with no offence to Tank! That doesn't mean they're doing a good job of it though.

I would generally prefer a forum run on a shoestring by one chap - there is far less danger of abuse of power in that case.

[njee20]

Surely there's far more scope for abuse of power? If our glorious leader Tank decided, he could ban half the membership and say that all photos not of NSE locos will be deleted. I doubt Warners would approve of that on RMWeb...

Wasn't passing judgement either, I like both forums, as has been discussed as nauseum, I was merely observing that a screenshot showing that there was more adverts on RMWeb is meaningless. Be like posting a photo of the O gauge threads on here and pointing out how deficient it is.

[Bealman]

"All photos not of NSE locos will be deleted"

[Newportnobby]

Please don't put ideas in heads

[jmupton2000]

Well, it's the first morning of Ally Pally and RMWeb has finally, completely collapsed it seems.

[Izzy]

 
  Working fine for me, much faster than recently as well.