Dyestat shutting down?

Lookatallofit wrote:

EPSN grabbed Dyestat to kill it in the first place. Same way MySpace was actually bought up to kill it.

Also, GM has a car that can run on water and get 100mpg, but they killed it off to appease the oil companies. Seriously!

Jason Byrne wrote:

This is really shocking news. And we sincerely are sad to hear it, feel for our respected colleagues, and anxiously await more details on the fate of the properties and content.

As a resident of Orlando, I also am very concerned about what this means for the track facility and cross country and track events that they put on out at Disney Wide World of Sports. And if this truly also includes my friends of many years who work in that department. Sounds like it does and those events will be canceled... including the XC meet in October. But I'm hoping not.

^this man created flrunners

CAGuy wrote:

I agree on Rob Monroe, but I have to disagree on Rich Gonzales. I think he did his best to play the hand he was dealt, but it didn't work out. He's not to blame for killing Dyestat. On the contrary, he's the only thing that's been holding it together.

Gonzales might be a great admin guy but he should not be allowed to write or be in front of the camera. He comes off as an idiot and much more of a stalker than a professional journalist.

Gonzales might be a great admin guy but he should not be allowed to write or be in front of the camera. He comes off as an idiot and much more of a stalker than a professional journalist.

What else is new ? The wealthy and powerful have been masquerading as journalists to get close to athletes since Ancient Persia became the first world empire and ruled over Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Greece, and Rome.

Remember when there was coverage of Rupp's splits for a 13:37 5k when he was in HS?

Now is the time to honor our USA runners who will compete in London.

you guys can hate all you want but the original dyestat was legit with a healthy base group and threads that were actually entertaining in full...plus i miss the large group of northwest guys that were on there and part of a legit community. i mean everyone from me and my one-nut buddy (don't laugh, it's a legit and great story)to nxn regional and state champs coming on and being known. sorry letsrun but your sauce is weak. i basically stick to the front page anymore besides giving teammates and buddies shoutouts

dafastestogre wrote:my one-nut buddy (don't laugh, it's a legit and great story)

lol "nut up or shut up"

DaveW wrote:

Remember when there was coverage of Rupp's splits for a 13:37 5k when he was in HS?

Now is the time to honor our USA runners who will compete in London.

You remember the distaste of Rupp originated at Dyestat(circa Footlocker '03)? Good times.

Farter wrote:

Dyestat is gone. Good riddance. That's progress. Forums are dead. Not just letsrun.com but other forums have been dying. Why do people need forums when the can blog on facebook.

I bet this is the same guy posting who I called out before. Now I'll go look.

Farter wrote:

Dyestat is gone. Good riddance. That's progress. Forums are dead. Not just letsrun.com but other forums have been dying. Why do people need forums when the can blog on facebook.

Wow. I can't tell for certain it's the same guy because he's posting on a secure server. However, I can tell you he is also the guy who posts about Semetic people, Jews, etc... He at least gave me another VPN to ban.

For the record LetsRun.com is at an all time high for traffic. We're currently at over 2 million visits the last month which is an all-time high. Page views and unique visitors are also smashing it.

Track and field may be small potatoes but we're the largest entity that covers pro track and field on a daily basis I believe in the world but for sure in the US.

We have the homepage and news side of things but as for the question as to why people go to forums they do so because they want to interact with people with similar interests. Facebook is a social network. LetsRun.com has a social component but a better description would be is it's an interest based network.

With all the garbage that posts on these forums, I'm surprised you're sweating this diatribe. Obviously sporting sites in general, and running specifically are in demand. This is especially true for running as we have so few avenues to know what the hell is happening in our sport. The live updates on this forum from some meets is the only way we know what's happening. We can't just turn on the tv and see the score.

I don't doubt this one bit and in some f-ed up way I am actually a reliable source.

Linkedin has public groups and private groups with blogs included. Linkedin is oriented towards career enhancement. Facebook has nealy 1 Billion registrants. I don't see how flotrack, runnerspace, and letsrun can survive any longer. It just won't happen.

As facebook and other social media sites get bigger, so does letsrun.

You're not looking through the right lens.

I remeber when we had 7 local newspapers covering our local smaller D-I college TF/XC meets. Now those seven newspapers are gone and out of business. Two local websites had come in and over 3-4 years stole their local ad base. Now those websites are gone. The ad base went over to craigslist and localized versions of large national ad sites.

The same is happening to dyestat, ESPN Rise, milesplit, flotrack, and runnerspace. Millions of individual children, athletes, coaches, and parents are a torrential storm producing volumes of information on social media. Old models are dying as social media dominates.

And yet you post here anyway. Must be something you like about the place.

No gurantees exist. Microsoft bought Yammer this week for $1.2B in a desperate move to integrate Yammer's private social media servers with Office. Will Microsoft be able roadblock twitter/facebook/... and save Office from the Cloud ? Most have failed. It's easy to predict this will fail, too easy in fact.

the only thing that has changed for me in the past eight years is that my immediate tabs open in my browser are now email-facebook-letsrun instead of just email and letsrun. you can't just have two websites in life, you need more. lets run is a sure stop after the big four for runners. google, youtube, live.com and facebook are the world's biggest website. facebook is taking on a google like status

Ever increasing billions of people are using twitter and social media. For the forseeable future the storm will be taking numerous new casualties.