What I want to know Wejo was who was the smart guy who allowed ESPN to take over Dyestat?
If its such a great site what was the point?
What I want to know Wejo was who was the smart guy who allowed ESPN to take over Dyestat?
If its such a great site what was the point?
It's all moot now. Facebook and Twitter have beat down Dyestat, Letsrun, Runnerspaces, Flotrak, etc.
The demise of Dyestat and dramatic exodus from Flotrack and Runnerspace is not funny at all. Seems the only people left posting on letsrun.com are salaried Nike Beaverton public relations staff. Everyone else has moved on to photoshelter, blogpot, flickr, youtube, twitter, blip.tv, facebook, tumblr, ...
The argument that DyeStat has been replaced by Twitter, Facebook, etc. is very weak. It is a partial replacement at best, but not a substitute. Anyone that experienced the original DyeStat message boards knows thats true. I'm surprised the market hasn't found a replacement yet, but I'm sure that will happen sooner or later.
Twitter, Facebook, etc. do not need to be replacements, they only need to be alternatives. Examples that come to mind are major TV networks that had viewers leave when hundreds of cable networks were created as alternatives. The explosion of dollar stores has hurt and even closed some grocery stores because an alternative location became available to buy less expensive bread, milk and other every-day items.
The alternative that Twitter, Facebook, and cable TV channels offer is the choice to spend time away from something else, in this case, the DyeStat forum. People have a finite amount of time to spend on the Internet, and time they spend on Facebook & Twitter is time not spent somebody’s forum board.
The ESPN-DyeStat forum board started-off poorly and viewers looked for alternatives.
High school cross country & track is a very limited market, and in the global aspirations of ESPN, the market is too small. ESPN does not sell athletic shoes like Nike and New Balance. ESPN has a different corporate purpose than Nike or New Balance. The old DyeStat was simply swallowed by ESPN and eliminated out the backside because there were no nutrients to feed ESPN. Failure to meet the success of old DyeStat was predictable.
The original DyeStat had a single purpose that grew into something special that was specific to high school cross country & track. Perhaps it can happen again, but there are alternatives.
every race has a finish line wrote:
MarathonGuide.com is reportedly closing up shop as well. Nothing lasts forever or we'd all still be driving modal T Fords.
Definitely not true.
Who needs MG, letsrun, runnerspace, or flotrack with twitter, facebook, youtube taking over and domininating social media in 2012.
2012 is year of Consolodation wrote:
Who needs MG, letsrun, runnerspace, or flotrack with twitter, facebook, youtube taking over and domininating social media in 2012.
Soo...why are you here? Go have this conversation with all your runner friends on twitter. Good luck....
Sooo... wrote:
2012 is year of Consolodation wrote:Who needs MG, letsrun, runnerspace, or flotrack with twitter, facebook, youtube taking over and domininating social media in 2012.
Soo...why are you here? Go have this conversation with all your runner friends on twitter. Good luck....
Come on dude he's on a first tweet basis with Nick Symmonds.
Sad to see Dyestat closing up shop. Dyestat got me through many high school classes. I wish it wasn't so. RIP Dyestat
http://one50south.blogspot.com/There's no doubt after Dyestat and Track Skarks died that Letsrun, Runnerspace, Flowtrack, etc. are going down the drain to to major social medias at twitter, blogspot, flickr, facebook...
When is went to ESPN it was difficult to find results. I think they tried making the website too fancy and it didn't work. The way the website was in the early 2000's was great, simple and easy to find results and go to archives. Although Athletic.net does not post articles it makes it easy to register athletes to meets and to see results. Since it's new it doesn't have the records of many previous years but more and more people are using the website to enter results and athletes can go to the website and see how they compare to others in the league and their section.
The End of an Era: Dyestat Officially Closes Shop
Isn't that why Dyetrack started? I'm a bit confused since I didn't expect that Dyestat would come back. I was thinking they would just move everything over to Dyetrack. Is Dyetrack shutting down too?
I just closed my checking, savings, and credit card accounts at ING Direct and Capital One because of Mary Wittenberg
Do it NOW!
FB/Twitter have decimated flotrack and runnerspace as well. Time marches on.
Struggling but alive tracktalk.net now enters it's sixth year as a tiny Athletics driven community centric website..
Congratulations to Zen Miler who works tirelessly to keep the idea that the internet needs a place for HS athletes to develop a lifelong connection to the sport of T&F. tt.net promotes the idea the HS runner needs a place to transition from love of their running and their HS team adventures to a love of the sport in all it's forms HS, college, club, agegroup masters, pro and being a lifelong way to maintain a healthy and fit lifestyle.
I am proud to be a member of this community of fans and athletes.
👆👆👆 What he said.