How much longer will Sherdog last?

[Bacco]

more than Bacco drawing thread

 

[Karl_Hungus]

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.

Yes, I vaguely remember the whole Gannon v. Kimbo thing. Has it been that long already? It was pretty exciting in that underground way. I remember watching that stream also. Kimbo and his crew tried to repeatedly cheat. I think I got there from the UG, but it has been so long now, I can hardly remember. I do remember posting on the UG when Gannon was posting there, and when lots of fighters, etc. posted there. Was fun, but now it is pretty dead. They got really tight on moderation a few years back, and that was basically the death knell. Now, the mods don't care, lol. I much prefer the UG and Sherdog to any other internet discussion sites, however.

 

[Batjester]

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[heavy_hands]

until my account is 30 years old…

 

[Kforcer]

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 dunno. It has been on life support ever since I was de-modded.

 

[SouthpawSouthernFist]

As long as he can ... I hear pressing your tongue to the roof of your mouth helps.

 

[HHJ]

All the offshoots were evenually beaten by Sherdog

 

[freakroor]

I would recruit some new forum members but that means I would have to admit that I myself go on here.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

For billions and billions of years.

 

[no fat chicks]

Like tears in rain

 

[davidlemonparty]

How is server traffic and unique visitor counts looking? Threads and posts?
@Peteyandjia @Meat Fist @Lethal you guys got any stat's?

 

[tomjones]

How is server traffic and unique visitor counts looking? Threads and posts?
@Peteyandjia @Meat Fist @Lethal you guys got any stat's?

Show us stats!

 

[mbinder]

Hopefully for the rest of my life. I'm not as active as I once was but it's nice to always be able to pop in and see what's up.

 

[Grassshoppa]

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.

Facebook groups?

 

[Clippy]

That's mainly because @Clippy became addicted to Doom.

yea

u guys get pretty war roomy sometimes \\\\

so mias

so miaa rh

dso

do miss trh


do miss the good old days

 

[90 50]

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.

Discord depends on the server I’m on. Several discord servers that have. Threads set up in the same way forums do, and messages. Going back years. On. Topics

If you set it up to work like a. Forum it. Does. And most of the ones I’m on are.

 

[shinobimusashi]

This is the best thing this site ever produced https://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/1/Pride-and-Glory-25240

 

[scorpiorising]

Been here since 2005 and been around since like 2002.

Plan on being here a while. But I just don't give a shit about much MMA anymore unfortunately. Went to a Rizin event last month and I think that will be my last event I'll attend, unless kickboxing or muay Thai come locally.

 

[fingercuffs]

I heard it'll be outta business by February

Jon Taffer fan too?

It dealt with me and Tachy exiting, I'm sure it;ll cockroach it.

 

[armbarforhire]

Those that quit watching dont deserve any favors.

Meh I want a forum where people know all the old sherdog references like

-Fred Ettish Fettal position
-SAFTA
-Rickson by armbar
-The Hawtness
-Jim Cozad and Randy Couture
-Old Vitor
-Sexyama