Does anyone monitor these and do any development?
Posted 8 months ago by ultyrunnerFooter feeds have been broken for a very long time and there doesn't seem to be any development. Fine if it's a hobby site for someone, but at least responses to these posts would be nice.
Why would anyone buy merchandise or pay for a no-ad membership if there's no development, bug fixes or enhancement happening?
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Unfortunately active development on the site is on hold for the time being. I just don't have the time on top of my day job to do anything meaningful with the site. My interaction is currently limited to making sure the site stays up and running and, thankfully, using it to log my rides (weather permitting).
I do apologize for the late response, and the lack of development, but things are what they are for the time being. It's just me working on the site in my spare time, and my spare time is pretty limited.
I understand that, but I've stopped using this site to track my activities. If it's just a hobby site, you should be clear to users about that.
There are very few sites like this on the web - perhaps you'd like some help getting the word out about this site and its usefulness - to sites like About, Google and Yahoo, and other general Fitness sites, and then you can get a few ads on here and make it worth your time?
Agreed. From my perspective, this is the best site for tracking my activities. Others make it too complex or put the emphasis on weight loss. Surely there is a way to make this profitable or get others to help w/ the upkeep/development. I just can't imagine this not being something that could easily become profitable, I've seen too many crappy activity monitoring websites and other ugly/useless 2.0 apps out there that seem to be surviving.
Do I smell "Google Fit"? :)
Seriously though, I've met a lot of cool runners on this site, and despite Josh's hiatus am plunking down the $20 for a subscription even so. I figured I've used WeEndure long enough for free that $20 is the least I can give.
Hopefully things pick back up in the future, and perhaps Josh gets more Ruby devs on board, because I think this site has that "something" needed...
I understand that this type of thing takes a lot of free time to keep adding/changing/improving things on the site, but the more time you put into it, the more pleased users will be, the more people will join the site, the more subscriptions you'll get, the more ad revenue will come in....at some point, it has to turn enough of a profit for it to be worth your time.
I'm a new user, and I think the site is great. But when the site developer says he's not going to be developing the site at all, well, I'm not really compelled to pay the upgraded subscription fee. You've got a nice small following here, but it could be even bigger. I'm sure there's some programmers out there who would be willing to help out with the site?