On 21 September 2011 14:14, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The real problem here is that if there was a real market for stupid > sites like that, they would already be there. And they are not, which > does seem to point to the conclusion that there isn't a real market > for such sites. Doesn't it? Not really. There are basically no major WP-derivative sites of any kind in existence - the ones that exist are either plain dumps studded with ads, or very small-scale attempts to do something good and innovative. As far as I can tell, it's just very hard to get a fork or a significantly different derivative site up and running successfully; it requires a large investment on fairly speculative predictions. Given this, it's hard to say that the absence of a particular kind of derivative site is due to there being a lack of demand for that *kind* of site - there might be demand, there might not, we just can't tell from the available evidence. (To steal David's analogy, it's a bit like saying that unicorns can't be trained, as there are no trained unicorns. Of course, there are no unicorns at all, and their trainability is moot...) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
