Canberra Goss titsup already?

Hah! Thumper’s a Rutles fan 🙂

peterh said :

astrojax said :

I looked at it once (while it was still up) and found it to be a shallow world of pretty lights, hearsay and spelling errors.

and this surprised you?

sounds like half the people posting on that site…

Or the Legislative Assembly…….

astrojax said :

I looked at it once (while it was still up) and found it to be a shallow world of pretty lights, hearsay and spelling errors.

and this surprised you?

sounds like half the people posting on that site…

Well, I’m completely devastated.

I looked at it once (while it was still up) and found it to be a shallow world of pretty lights, hearsay and spelling errors.

and this surprised you?

Skidd Marx said :

Some of my good friends are involved with Canberra Goss and I have it on good authority that the site is down because the bandwidth couldn’t handle the traffic that was hitting up the site. A victim of their own success I suppose.

That is the funniest sh*t I have heard in ages!!!

“I have it on good authority that the site is down because the bandwidth couldn’t handle the traffic that was hitting up the site.”

The bandwidth couldn’t handle the what now? I think you’re suggesting the webhosting couldn’t handle the traffic generated. Which I doubt. If your statement is based in truth, then they probably either couldn’t afford to get a decent webhost, or they chose a poor or expensive one.

Perhaps they should shop around for hosting. There’s plenty of dirt cheap USA based services. No web user cares too much about where their forum webhost is located now anyway.

>If I can make a suggestion. We’d love to run a gossip column here. It’d cost less, be read by more and would save a lot of time making glossy bandwidth hogging flash animation. Less scope for throwing parties I suppose.

and what would the moderation nightmare be like?

maybe you need to look at a section called Lounge, Orange room, etc – as other forums have done in the past. it would create a different atmosphere to the std RA pages.

hk0reduck said :

Well… It is a pretty nice flash animation.

didnt think such a thing existed.

I used to love the old website “Shit on Brisbane” – ’twas a great site for finding out what was going on in town.

Well… It is a pretty nice flash animation.

Maybe if CG were a facebook application they may have had more success.

I looked at it once (while it was still up) and found it to be a shallow world of pretty lights, hearsay and spelling errors.

Skidd Marx said :

Some of my good friends are involved with Canberra Goss and I have it on good authority that the site is down because the bandwidth couldn’t handle the traffic that was hitting up the site. A victim of their own success I suppose.

You’re kidding, right ?

Having your bloated, flash-intensive website ravage your bandwidth is quite possibly not due to overwhelming user numbers.
A victim of their own poor design choice, more likely.

Some of my good friends are involved with Canberra Goss and I have it on good authority that the site is down because the bandwidth couldn’t handle the traffic that was hitting up the site. A victim of their own success I suppose.

Canberra Goss – death becomes you!

RA “Gossip” is sitting in comfy chairs by the fire, sipping brandy and discussing Proust compared to the calibre of posts on Canberra Gossip, Dan. I’d argue you’re dealing with a fairly distinct demographic.

I already thought this wa s Canberra Goss site, among other more valuable things as well.

Their pitfall was opening a canberra based content website when RA already has a readership of +50,000

> If I can make a suggestion. We’d love to run a gossip column here. It’d cost less, be read by more and would save a lot of time making glossy bandwidth hogging flash animation. Less scope for throwing parties I suppose.

Maybe, but do you think RA would respond well to the content they post? Also, where would you find the time to moderate all of the “ZOMG tarneesharr is like a totl skank LOLZ” commentary, JB?

I guess it might grow the business though.