Some competition for MechSpecs!

It has apparently been up for a couple of months, but I just noticed it from a post in the official MW:O forums:

MechBuilds

 

I saw that place a while back, they didn't have much to start with and apparently are still struggling.

 

I've seen these guys before and am surprised they haven't grown any since the last time I saw it.

I understand how difficult it can be to get a niche fan site to this level. MechSpecs is over 2 years old and we are still here today for two reasons; you guys being an active (sometimes prolifically so) community and the fact that we were first to do this kind of thing. There are a few other MWO related sites out there that provide what Mech Specs does but they don't have the community, traffic nor content that MechSpecs does.

 

Hear, hear!! Well spoken Bruce Michael.

 

Actually that is an issue I've been having with the site lately. Recently I've noticed my eyes getting tired late at night before I want to go to bed... which causes a bright website like this one to be neigh blinding. Obviously the solution is for me to spend less time on the computer but I'm an internet junky so fat chance of that happening. I'd never be so bold as to ask Mason to do more work, what with his job and everything he does for the site already, but the ability to select a different color scheme for the site would be a welcome feature.

 

Put on some sunglasses. Instantly darker MechSpecs

 

Didn't realize it was a competition . The site has no advertizing and generates zero income, its run purely for the love of mech games and I would have thought the more sites promoting MWO the better. Yes its a fairly new site and like some have said it can take years to build up a community, but we are not new to this & this is not our only site, we also ran Mechbay (for the earlier mechwarrior series) before it got hacked and deleted many years ago.

 

Meh... You got balls son!

I wouldn't say there is any competition at all. You are recycling ideas but then you already knew that since you managed to come here and sign up within hours of a post about your site being posted here.

Niches are already filled with NGNG doing the Podcasts and Community Information, Smurfy does the Mech Lab and Mech Specs does the MIN/MAXing. You are a dollar short and a couple years late.

 

Down boy!!! Jeez Jacob.

Everyone is welcome here.

With that said, this thread is closed as there is no more need for discussion on this topic. As for MechBuilds, good luck and nice to see more community involvement. Cheers.