How much longer will Sherdog last?

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

I think it s a fact that there is less activity than 10 years or 5 years ago.
I think that the way they monetised the adds and all turned a lot of people off including myself. I am here way less nowadays.
But there is a huge trend in less posts. For example I used to go only on Grappling forum here and it s a corpse nowadays. The most worrying part is the lower traffic on the heavies and this is relatively recent.

With the way costs of everything is exploding, maybe it will become a loss-making venture.

 

[Michaelangelo]

I’d you want to live stay out of the war room lmao. That sub is a death sentence.

Only for dumbasses tho

No offense to dumbasses lol

 

[Simple Southerner]

 

[Hollywood Jack]

All of my favorite forums have either died or are dying, the last of them are going down now because inflation the owners can't afford server costs because it's not worth it. So feels like all forums are on borrowed time, most everybody posts in facebook/groups now. How much longer do you see this ancient relic of the internet lasting? It's crazy I still see join dates of 2002 on here.

I know of forums that are even older than Sherdog and that have a lot more issues to deal with and aren't nearly as popular or as profitable and are still around and will probably be around for a while...

Sherdog is #1 in its category. It gets almost 2 million more monthly visits than UFC.com.

https://www.similarweb.com/website/sherdog.com/#competitors

 

[Bos Docken]

I think it s a fact that there is less activity than 10 years or 5 years ago.
I think that the way they monetised the adds and all turned a lot of people off including myself. I am here way less nowadays.
But there is a huge trend in less posts. For example I used to go only on Grappling forum here and it s a corpse nowadays. The most worrying part is the lower traffic on the heavies and this is relatively recent.

That is true, but Sherdog still has remarkable activity compared to other MMA forums of the same age, like The MMA Underground and... well I guess that's the only one left.

have you been on The MMA Underground lately? It is an abandoned insane asylum compared to Sherdog.

The decline will continue, and Sherdog will eventually go the way of other forums. Abandoned. But for now, gotta appreciate that Sherdoggers are still a thing after 25 years.

 

[Hollywood Jack]

The main threats to forums I think are actually inferior.

Facebook - inferior to sherdog because it's not anonymous so people are less honest. Also it's made up of your own friends and family so you don't get many differing opinions or backgrounds. Becomes an echo chamber because you can unfriend people who disagree with you and you no longer see their posts.

Discord - inferior because you can only talk to people that are currently online. On sherdog we can get responses to a topic over the course of days or weeks, which allows more people to participate.

Reddit - This one is almost as good as sherdog. The format is not as user friendly and it's harder to get that sense of community. Also, the moderation is very inconsistent because Reddit is largely uninvolved so if some douche mod just wants to ban everyone he disagrees with, he can.

FWIW, I created a Facebook quite some time ago just so I could watch UFC prelims because that's what the deal was at the time. I still have it, but it's under a fake name. They can't actually enforce that real names rule. I looked it up and it goes back to UFC 129 which was in early 2011. I hadn't even hit 30 yet. Those were the days...

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

That is true, but Sherdog still has remarkable activity compared to other MMA forums of the same age, like The MMA Underground and... well I guess that's the only one left.

have you been on The MMA Underground lately? It is an abandoned insane asylum compared to Sherdog.

The decline will continue, and Sherdog will eventually go the way of other forums. Abandoned. But for now, gotta appreciate that Sherdoggers are still a thing after 25 years.

I have literally never been on the UG.

 

[Karl_Hungus]

The website used to have weird ass people posting in it and it was funny as hell. There was some Jason Delucia and Bas thing. I am not even sure that was real. I cant really remember any newer UFC fighters that post on sherdog anymore. Last one I remembered was Bec Rawlings but I wasn't sure that was really her or her abusive husband. I am pretty sure some sherdog members simped over her in the DMs.

Lol, yeah. I remember that thread with DeLucia. I remember reading that later, around 2006, maybe, when I still lurked. It was an interesting read, and it made me realize that Sherdog was for real. I still respect DeLucia for trying that, what was it, seven animal Kung Fu? It didn't work, but damn if he didn't try.

This website has definitely slowed down, but the whole "Sherdog is dying" is definitely a repeating refrain around here. It could easily die off, especially after Dana's snub, and the ensuing disfavor. People really prefer easier to digest formats, with more pictures or whatever. I don't know.

This is the only social media I even have anymore, and I don't even consider it that. It is just a message board. I had Reddit, but it is too weird for me, but it is very popular. The MMA section is extremely busy, but the moderation is weird - either overkill or barely there. I don't go there anymore, because it isn't my thing. Sherdog will be around for awhile longer, but how much longer? I don't know.

I have literally never been on the UG.

The UG used to be very cool. Fighters, and even Dana, would post there regularly. McCorkle's review of Matt Hugh's book was fucking epic. All kinds of funny shit. You missed out.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

About tree fiddy years

Yeah I mean that's the only answer.

 

[Bos Docken]

The UG used to be very cool. Fighters, and even Dana, would post there regularly.

Joe Rogan used to frequent the UG too. Joe even interviewed the owners of The Underground on his podcast back in 2015. It's strange to think about now.

Truth be told, the UG was already a shadow of its former self in 2015. But there was a time when the UG was the place to be online for anyone into MMA. Chael Sonnen still name checks it occasionally on his YouTube channel.

Royce Gracie had his own subforum on the UG that he would personally comment on. There were regional subforums that were important to their respective MMA communities. Guys like Joe Lauzon and Kenny Florian grew up from internet kids to pro fighters on the UG.

I remember when Sean Gannon fought Kimbo Slice in an unsanctioned bout in Boston in 2004. The Boston subforum on the UG was going wild and Florian was basically live-posting the event as it happened.

It's hard to explain what it was like, how much has changed, how far MMA has come from its grassroots.

 

[landon]

McCorkle's review of Matt Hugh's book was fucking epic.

Had to go re-read it and it was funnier than I remembered lmfao. For anyone who hasn't seen it here is the post.

 

[Timetravel_0]

Peak Sherdog was probably Brocktober. I spend most my time on Reddit now. If I start a thread on Reddit it gets buried among the millions of threads. Post a thread on here and it will actually get some views and replies.

 

[NoSmilez]

Strength training and conditioning forum is dead. It used to be filled with autists that only did barbell work. Everything needed to be powerlifting for MMA.

 

[FyrFytr998]

Sherdog will outlast MMA.

 

[flashNsmash]

I watched UFC 36 last week from 2002, opening match was they put the two guys that got squashed by Tito in the previous PPV's against each other, like neither of these guys landed a single strike on Tito and probably legit almost got killed, lets make them fight each other to see what happens. Great show though, the goofy looking ramp to the Octagon and all the pyro in the intro was like some WCW shit. I dug it. I can't believe we have posters here who have join date from when that show happened. That's how fucking old these boards are for real? Yall were really posting about Elvis Sinosic?

ALL ABOARD THE DAVE MENNE WAR WAGON

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

What was the test? Oh my friends ran into Phil Baroni. He is CTE confirmed.

Meaning she gave posting in there a test run and got destroyed.

 

[NoSmilez]

Meaning she gave posting in there a test run and got destroyed.

Oh! Yea it makes sense. Sherdog was never kind to fighters even the females. That really nice Roxy girl posted here before as well.

 

[Meatspin]

Been around for ages now, despite the proliferation of other social media outlets. I like it better old school

 

[Mr Mojo Lane]

......but my friends in real life and FB aren't as cool as Sherdoggers

 

[tomjones]

It's an interesting question because the Underground is dying. I never posted on the UG but I did once a week have a quick look at posts.