Why do most running websites end up failing?

LRC lives on because of the reasons the others fail: they don't really change anything. There's a fair amount of regulars, and by the Brojos not changing anything they create an atmosphere where people feel more connected to the place, rather than disconnected due to a website changing things all the time. Perhaps it's a little bit of nostalgia. A comforting constant to keep revising in world of change. In any case, they have a definite brand caused by the retro feel/logo.

They do all their own reporting, and although people laugh at the grammar and unprofessional production (they've got better), many people here feel like they know them and enjoy it when LRC is on the scene at an event.

Young runners hear about LRC as this legendary place where there's a rough message board; just like Pre, the legend grows bigger than it ever was. They come on and continue a tradition that has become a self-perpetuating myth. And so it continues.

While I like the journalistic component on the front page, I suspect the broad range of topics discussed on the message boards is the key to attracting new visitors. That's how you survive on the web. Have you noticed when googling just about anything running related the top hit with be a letsrun thread? Despite the fact that 99% of the stuff on the boards is, let's say, lacking in quality, 99% of running questions have been addressed at some point on the very same boards, often multiple times. By starting threads, we are generating most of the letsrun content.

This site lives on because of trolling, and wejo knows it. Without trolling, letsrun would go the way of the dodo.

Doldrum wrote:

While I like the journalistic component on the front page, I suspect the broad range of topics discussed on the message boards is the key to attracting new visitors. That's how you survive on the web. Have you noticed when googling just about anything running related the top hit with be a letsrun thread? Despite the fact that 99% of the stuff on the boards is, let's say, lacking in quality, 99% of running questions have been addressed at some point on the very same boards, often multiple times. By starting threads, we are generating most of the letsrun content.

Question:

Who is starting the threads and generating the "content"?

Content????

It is going in the toilet bowel.

Dig it???

That was a pretty good post, EW.

www.failedsite.com wrote:

I just got back from trackandfieldnews.com -- man do things stink over there. Go to runnerspace and I still dont know the words or phrases to describe what the site actually is. Flotrack was amazing in the mid 2000s and sucks now behind all the milesplit paywalls.

Even in our state we have jad some tremendous efforts over the past ten years. One year it is up and bulletproof with coverage while the next it goes down.

Whats your take and why does LRC live on?

Man, I miss TrackShark so much. It was the best track site by an astronomical margin.

easy weeks

...although people laugh at the grammar and unprofessional production (they've got better)

They were worse?