What I find strange, is that around 150 people an hour still view the old eBuild site.

With that sort of traffic, I'm amazed the owner of the eBuild site hasn't sold it, rather than close it down.

The thing is that with Ebuild and organic traffic is that there's no upsell of anything else. If you could then offer visitors other educational material with a view to eventually selling something it might be different. Without that, advertising is about your only option.

I wonder how well Navitron do out of their forum.

One problem The BuiildHub has, is getting people to their new site, at 6am they had 5 users on line, compared to ebuild, which had 235.

Good question. At 10:30 it was

The BuildHub. - Who's Online 14 Members, 1 Anonymous, 6 Guests

Ebuild - 94 users are online (in the past 30 minutes). 2 members, 92 guests, 0 anonymous users

GBF - no data

The other problem is visibility, searching "the buildhub" brings up loads of hits, none of which are the forum in question.

Maybe the owner of eBuild could put a message on the front page directing readers to the new forum.

I don't think that eBuild was financially successful. Also from what I understand, it was the site owner that threw his toys out the pram, not the members.

I just Googled BuildHub UK and it was the 7th entry on the list. It don't help that it is a .org.uk.

The thing about .org.uk is that it is not instinctive to go to, .com and .co.uk is. So it does not jump out at you straight away.

Posted By: gravelldEbuild's organic traffic was/is not from people searching for Ebuild, is for people searching "what is thermal mass" or whatever.

ebuild isn't in the first 100 hits for that search query, so I don't think so. Which is reasonable since the site expressed such an eccentric view.

But you're right that people searching for actual content is important and that's what they won't get for quite a while.

Sorry, but have to step in here due to Nick's provocative comments.

God knows why, but I was copied-in to the emails of the conspirators so know exactly how "things" developed and it was not David Button who threw any toys out of anyone's pram, let alone his own.

I'l repeat what I said in earlier posts in another thread here, immediately I saw how things were developing (and it started with the posting of one particular comment that opened a thread clearly titled with the names of the companies who subsequently raised "issues" with David) I PM'd all the other Mods with a warning, citing an earlier, far less potentially contentious, instance that led to threats of legal action and asking for their agreement that "we" close it down. I was told I was over-reacting and found myself the minority.

I emailed David to warn him of the thread and suggested the thread be "locked down". That was an error because I should have said "closed down". David locked it. One of the other Mods unlocked it (which I didn't know we could do, having tried it on another thread some time before and failed because I was using the wrong one of two available options, only one of which worked) and a flurry of posts ensued. As I knew David was busy at work I emailed him, closed my eyes and waited for it to hit the fan.

Had I known the Mods could actually have locked and unlocked threads I would actually have deleted the thread, not locked it. With hindsight, I should have done that anyway, but without the support of the other Mods, who was I to assume that kind of authority? If anyone on the "board" of the new forum wants to understand why I say that they have too many Mods, you now have your answer.

So no, David Button did not throw his toys out of the pram, he was, like me, shocked at the vitriolic and often downright slanderous comments coming from the conspirators and which still trickle out from at least one of the people involved, if only to stoke the flames of discontent.

I repeat, I was copied-in to the emails circulating amongst the conspirators. I still have them. I am sorely tempted to publish them. I haven't, yet, because a number of the people involved now regret going as far as they did in what they said.

I have no problem with observation, it's uninformed malicious comment that seriously pi$$es me off.

Posted By: daikingYou won't be joining them, then? It's a shame as I always enjoyed your posts.

But I'm in so much **** now, I've got to take help wherever I can find it.

I see that in the other place it's just you and the exclusive club of 16. Such a shame ebuild closed and a great pity DB did not sell it on to someone with the time to devote to Building on his success.

Posted By: Triassic

Posted By: daikingYou won't be joining them, then? It's a shame as I always enjoyed your posts.

But I'm in so much **** now, I've got to take help wherever I can find it.

I see that in the other place it's just you and the exclusive club of 16. Such a shame ebuild closed and a great pity DB did not sell it on to someone with the time to devote to Building on his success.

Its not quite that bad. You won't hold it against me will you? :big smile:

(For the avoidance of any doubt for anyone else, I have absolutely nothing to do with anything that has transpired anywhere)

Posted By: daikingYou won't be joining them, then? It's a shame as I always enjoyed your posts.

But I'm in so much **** now, I've got to take help wherever I can find it.

I joined them on day one, but I've decided take a step back from the various forums I'm a member of and to knuckle down and get on with my self build. No doubt I will be back at some point to asking further questions, as and when required.

Posted By: SteamyTeaI think this is my third week in Cornwall, in the last 12 years, that it has not rained.

It's been 11C, windy and wet at times here. Not at all summery. You've been lucky. I've been working inside the house floor tiling, grouting and fitting skirting.

There were people swimming all this week. Mad Emmets most of them. I kept my shoes and socks on (I was working).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmet_%28Cornish%29