feeds are a joke

what the fuck is social bookmarking?

I'll say this. RSS has many more uses than just blogs and will be around a long time. So will link lists and TGP's. The Internet is changing and so is the porn biz, but in the end this is the porn biz. People, for the most part, are not bookmarking sites and visiting sites because they want to be wowed by designed and high quality text (although high quality test can help get the there) for the most part they could care less about my html or photoshop skills, they want porn. If you serve them what they want they will come back.

However, to say that in the next five years part timers will be a thing of the past I feel is just off base. It seems like every couple of years people predict the demise of the regular, old-school type of webmaster. The guy that makes free sites and galleries and stuff like that. Every few years people like to predict how affiliate programs will be disappearing and there will only be a few big players left in the market. Today there are more affiliate programs than ever. Many affiliate programs actually rely on their affiliates for the majority of their sales and many of these affiliates are part time or regular old-school webmasters. They may have to change some and adapt to new techniques and ideals, but I think there will always be a place for that group that builds some galleries and makes free sites.

i dont think they will ever fade out, but their popularity has gone down. I think there is a natural behavior for the "first time surfer" who goes to a lot of different sites before bookmarking a few favorites.

As far as web 2.0, personally i think its more of a competition between webmasters than for surfers (free sites, not paysites). Im in between on thoughts because i think surfers like simple looking straight to the point sites, but at the same time, I want the site to look nice an attractive so the visitor fells "safe" and comes back

Thats exactly what i observed, excerpt from my previous post:
"Eg.
-Thehun has almost 4 milions around one year ago, now according sextracker is 3,334 milions (today)
-Wordlsex has almost 2 milions around one year ago, now according sextracker is 1,592 milions (today)
and so on...
New surfers are coming mainly to the different sites (sharing, streaming sites etc.) then TGPs and LLs."

I will post the stats of both sites next year, so we can see how their traffic will change.

I have just look today at their numbers on sextracker, and even after half year, its such huge decrease, that I was actually shocked.

-Thehun has now 2.8 milions vs 4 milions 1.5 year ago
-Worldsex has now 1.3 milions vs 2 milions 1.5 year ago.
-Sleazydream has now 261k vs 400k 1.5 year ago.

I will update it in half year again.

interesting update, the number of visitors are getting down really fast:

current numbers after year are:
-Thehun according to Sextracker is 2,5 milions today
-Worldsex according to Sextracker is 1,23 milions today
-Sleazydream has now 236k vs 400k 2 years ago.

of course number of signups arent what it used to be one or two years ago.
Some tgps should decrease price of gallery spots...

this thread is only 1 year old but the word "tube" has been mentioned only once in it and it wasn't in the original post

shows how much the industry changed even since 1 year ago

1 year ago tube sites weren't a mass phenomenon yet, today there are 5 threads about them every day....

It depends on which type you mean. If you mean the text based TGPs and Linkslist then yes. But, no, for them in general. I've seen tgps which have user generated tagging and which also have great search functions built in with thumb previews. These actually seem better than your standard tube site in my opinion as far as navigation.

The problem is that as you make things easier like this, conversions naturally decrease. Part of the reason for conversions with text TGPs and Linkslists was the frustration factor.

The thing is imho, a lot of the old school sites made their money already and don't care about it enough to change or have moved on to different projects.

Some people always say why change a winning team right, now it just seems their team isn't winning anymore and others take over :2 cents:

I have something in the works that will make RSS feeds suck much less.

Tgp -> Mgp

Old thread but still hot topic

This is true though you can still get a simple start and make some cash(limited), but that is not what I call "Success", it's not like back in the day that's for sure.

Mgp -> Tube

Traffic may be down on TGPs and such, but the conversions are still there

Not for long

yep, Bob Dylan is right, times are a changing