Are you on the ZipperList?

ecchi · 2013-03-05, 04:11 AM

As soon as I click on any menu item I get asked for my location, then only get news/forums/etc for my area. That kind of makes it useless. If I'm looking to the site to find a date with a woman, then fine, I probably want local. But nearly everyone wants forums where they can chat with everyone (note, for example, the number of different countries the people on this board come from, what use would GGB be if it was only for webmasters living in Washington DC). People also want world news, they don't just want to know what is going on down the road. And for selling/buying stuff - everyone buys internationally, only really big stuff, like fridge/freezers gets bought locally, for example in the last year I have bought stuff on eBay from Britain, USA, China, Australia, and a few European countries.

In short, "localisation" is so 1990's, I cannot see this site succeeding unless they expand their horizons.

2013-03-05, 04:11 AM	#10
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	As soon as I click on any menu item I get asked for my location, then only get news/forums/etc for my area. That kind of makes it useless. If I'm looking to the site to find a date with a woman, then fine, I probably want local. But nearly everyone wants forums where they can chat with everyone (note, for example, the number of different countries the people on this board come from, what use would GGB be if it was only for webmasters living in Washington DC). People also want world news, they don't just want to know what is going on down the road. And for selling/buying stuff - everyone buys internationally, only really big stuff, like fridge/freezers gets bought locally, for example in the last year I have bought stuff on eBay from Britain, USA, China, Australia, and a few European countries. In short, "localisation" is so 1990's, I cannot see this site succeeding unless they expand their horizons.