Do you ever show the LRC message board to your non-running friends?

rojo wrote:

Your post is not reflected by the facst. The site is enjoying a record year. Think about this for a moment. We are about to hit our 8 millionth post. That will happen early in 2017. So we are at 7.9 million . 5 years ago , we were only at 4.4 million.

The forum software is in think 13 years old. But in the last 5 years, we've produced 3.5/7.9 million posts. That's 57% of the posts have come in just the last 5 years.

I've been around since the beginning. I know the site 'seemed' bigger in the early days as the Internet was new but there was hardly anyone on here. Now it's WAY bigger.

I've got a buddy who has a few friends who come to the site who aren't even runners. He says they claim it's the only place they can be honest about politics and where they'll get both sides of the issue.

Thanks for the reply, rojo. I'm the one that started this thread, and I have been here at LRC since close to the beginning (around 2001). I've watched it grow, and I agree with much of what you've stated here.

I'm wondering though, if you have any stats on how many unique posts have been started here. LRC has a lot of regulars. This is a good and bad thing at the same time. You have a core group that ensures the board never stops ticking over with new posts, but at the same time I wonder how much smaller that 7.9 million number you quote would be if you only counted unique hits. This isn't a knock on the site at all - I'm truly interested in the stats, and I know that you likely have this number. All website tracking code includes this feature. Would you care to share it?

Your numbers have grown. Honestly, that's great. If it's a sustainable business for you, congrats and continued best wishes. The fact remains I come to this site to get the nitty gritty on the pro racing scene, and I leave as soon as possible. It's a cesspool of ugly comments and threads more than any other site I visit. And you aren't clear or consistent with how you delete threads and posts. Much of that could be solved with a modern board framework and authentication, but you know that would kill the number of posts you hold up as the metrics of your success. This all leaves you with no brand equity because no one will ever talk about the site or link the site unless they need to.

Again, you succeed in the manner you try for, and deserve congrats for that.

No.

Threads about relationships and women always seem to amuse my non running friends. They have now started using the term "Hobby jogger"

My non-running friends think this is a harmless running forum, little do they know...

I'll read some of the threads that I think are funny to my wife. It has to be really good though.

Last one I read to her was the great "My Top 10 Tips for Marathon" by rcjason. That was classic and even the wife who is a non-runner laughed out loud at some of the posts. She knows the denizens of LRC are a buncha whacked idiots.

What are the best threads on here to show non-runners?

Nope. Only desperate wankers do that.