It's Been About Six Weeks Since Freelancer Took Over. How Are They Doing?

A lot more spam and nonsense posts, or perhaps they're slower to moderate them.

I don't "live" in the WSO forum, so I can't comment on that change. It seems some members spent most of their time there. I checked one person's "see see posts" and nearly all their posts were there.

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blueclcl

11 years ago

Apart from quite a few members with 1- 5 posts then it still feels the same.

Sometimes I feel that the main forum is quieter than usual, but that may just be me.

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Banned 11 years ago

I wish they would stabilize the "find all posts by user" function! It is nice to see fewer forum errors when trying to access though.

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datingworld

11 years ago

I don't see much visible changes.

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Jtraits

11 years ago

still feels like it was but that's a good thing. when something changes hands-of-management , usually you see dramatic differences which is not that good for me

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laurencewins

11 years ago

Some good and some bad points...we still get loads of spammers. They should instigate the low membership fee to deter the spammers again. It also adds a little to their kitty. I also think that the time delay between reporting spammer should be greatly reduced or deleted...I end up not reporting if I see more than 1 as I don't want to wait for that time to elapse.

I also see lots of questions being asked and not answered. Often the loading times are slower than ever.

Not sure what else but if I remember, I will add them to this post.

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Marked09

11 years ago

WSO seems to be moving faster than before and less organic traffic IMO.

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Banned 11 years ago

Hi Brent,

I'm interested that you ask, in your poll, about the "quality", not the "quantity".

I haven't seen any noticeable changes in the quality of what's posted here, over the last 6 weeks, and wouldn't really expect to in only 6 weeks. (The striking changes in quality, I think, were around 6-12 months ago, when so many of the well-established, successful Warriors gradually stopped posting.)

What I have noticed, especially over the last few days, is a very big and obvious change in quantity.

The number of new posts and threads, per day, in the Main Marketing Forum, is strikingly lower than it was a few months ago. (And extrapolating from this I suspect, but don't know, that overall traffic may be significantly down, too. And that - if true - surprises me a lot, in the circumstances, and I've increasingly been wondering about it!).

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Michael Levanduski

11 years ago

I haven't noticed anything significant. The 'sticky' posts in the Warrior for Hire section is the biggest thing I've noticed, and I think that is a good move.

I don't hang out on WF too much though (too busy taking action rather than just talking about taking action, lol).

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BigVikingAl

11 years ago

Haven't really noticed any change.

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DJL

11 years ago

Database errors and timeouts seem to have decreased.
Aside from that, I don't see much change.

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Shem MD

11 years ago

i dont see any significant change right now

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drem

11 years ago

For me, nothing has changed too drastically besides the server timeouts as you mentioned. It seems, it may just be me, that there are a lot more people with new accounts asking questions.

I really like the WAMA part which adds a little excitement to the forum for me.

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discrat 11 years ago

Funny, I have not even thought about this change. So I really have not seen any change here at the Warrior Forum.

Same old good stuff here with loads of information and the occasional nonsense spam post here and there. But nothing to write home about.

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banwork

11 years ago

Everything certainly loads faster and the WSO prices are down. The new content areas they are adding are not obvious in value and the warrior forum certainly feels more like part of a big company already than a loving family.

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johnweyer

11 years ago

I have to admit I have seen an increase in 'spam' type posts. Otherwise not much change. I also noticed that I'm being targeted on Facebook.

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11 years ago

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John_3771

11 years ago

I haven't seen a ton of changes and that isn't a bad thing.

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dgui123451

11 years ago

I see a lot more new members and the social media sharing icons are cool. I’m not sure though about the signature subscription getting disabled – I really like it.

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Originally Posted by dgui123451

I’m not sure though about the signature subscription getting disabled – I really like it.

Hello,

Signature images are not being disabled --> and they are still being sold. The payments need to go to the correct party so Allen is cancelling the old subscriptions so cancelled users will need to rebuy with the payment going to the Freelancer folks.

See this post by Alaister:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post9228148

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goindeep

11 years ago

Positive: Less database issues.

Positive: Different forums.

Negative: But I did post in the War Room offering up some free report, to date it's still not been approved or disapproved, technically it is sitting in no man's land and I am none the wiser. Doesnt make me feel that great about it especially since I am a paid up War Room member...

Negative: When looking at my own profile, I routinely look at my statistics and then click
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Gambino

11 years ago

Honestly, I wouldn't even have known they took over had there not been posts about it.

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Rhiannon Beckham

11 years ago

I want to change my vote. I said 'I see little change' - being that I've barely been on here since it sold, but now after reading around for ten minutes and seeing them filled with useless, filler crap comments all by new members with under 10 posts- I see major change, it's not just because I'm looking now either, there is a definite noticeable difference. And major spam!

Who needs quality when quantity pays the bills!!

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Brent Stangel

11 years ago

Thank you all for your comments. If I didn't thank your post it's because I ran out.

A lot more spam and nonsense posts, or perhaps they're slower to moderate them

I also think fewer people are reporting them. I don't report like I used to. ):

They should instigate the low membership fee to deter the spammers again.

I also think there should be some kind of "qualifier."

I'm interested that you ask, in your poll, about the "quality", not the "quantity".

Alexa, you know I'm not the most articulate person. (;

I haven't seen any noticeable changes in the quality of what's posted here, over the last 6 weeks, and wouldn't really expect to in only 6 weeks. (The striking changes in quality, I think, were around 6-12 months ago, when so many of the well-established, successful Warriors gradually stopped posting.)

Now that you mention it, I can think of several I haven't heard from in a while.

Brent

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ErinWalsh

11 years ago

I haven't noticed much difference except for the price to get into the War Room. What is Freelancer doing differently? Why did they decide to buy it? Just as a profit-making tool? If so, I guess that makes sense.

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laurencewins

11 years ago

I hate the new colour scheme. Why change something that works well?

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Raydal 11 years ago

I just went to look for the Copywriting sub forum and realized the name
had changed (along with the font scheme of the board) so it took some
time to locate. The insult of it all is that those who are involved in
"content" marketing have been traditionally chased from that forum.
Now the name has been changed with CONTENT as the first word!

It's now the Content Strategies & Copywriting

Strange move.

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I like it. The over all feel seems cleaner...waiting to see what other changes will be made.
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Originally Posted by laurencewins

I hate the new colour scheme. Why change something that works well?

I like it
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cooler1

11 years ago

Originally Posted by laurencewins

I hate the new colour scheme. Why change something that works well?

The red almost looks the same as it did before so I don't know why you hate it.

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11 years ago

The red almost looks the same as it did before so I don't know why you hate it

The red is a shade lighter and brighter than before, and there's more of it. Laurence is visually impaired, so I can imagine it looks particularly garish to him.

Originally Posted by Raydal

I just went to look for the Copywriting sub forum and realized the name
had changed (along with the font scheme of the board) so it took some
time to locate. The insult of it all is that those who are involved in
"content" marketing have been traditionally chased from that forum.
Now the name has been changed with CONTENT as the first word!
It's now the Content Strategies & Copywriting

Hadn't noticed that until now. It would be an idea if the admin could explain what they mean by "Content Strategies". Otherwise I can see it causing some confusion.

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YaniB 11 years ago

It's irritating to me that now I am not able to see at a glance which threads I've commented on so I can jump back into the conversation.

Unless I'm missing something. I'd like to be proven wrong.

The new color and font I'm not a fan of, either. I don't see the need to fix something that isn't broken.

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hbhanot

11 years ago

I think its a bit better but its seems too early to react. Give it at least 6 months.

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talfighel

11 years ago

In my view, data base errors that we had in the past has gone down. So that's good.

Overall, it is the same for me but the new look of the forum, I am not a fan of.

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11 years ago

I hate the new font. It’s hard to read what everyone is writing.

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waterotter

11 years ago

I'm soon gonna' need trifocals just to navigate and post replies in this forum.

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HeySal

11 years ago

I agree with Jody - the new design is just ugly and distracting.

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Cool Hand Luke 11 years ago

Terrible new design.

Also, where's the copywriting forum now?
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fcf360

11 years ago

THIS IS SO HORRIBLE !!! This is giving me headaches.. Where is the old design?

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Mikaedi

11 years ago

According to Allistair..Admin is tweaking the design so what we see with the colour scheme and fonts are possibly not final..for now for me it seems really weird/compact.I preferred the older look better

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vishwa

11 years ago

I also don't see any major changes. The look is same and only fonts are changes I believe.

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waterotter

11 years ago

The spam threads are still prevalent. Even after reporting, lately, it seems a while before the threads are removed.

Member moderators will stop reporting them, but maybe with the new owners and hired help, member moderators are no longer required?

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Charles Harper

11 years ago

I like the live events.

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11 years ago

Personally I'm liking the new design so far... Fast lading and easier on the eyes. Easier to read.

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Steven Wagenheim 11 years ago

Okay, this really needs to be fixed. Unless you have just gone to a thread with one of your posts in it and nobody has been there and posted since, there is no way to visually see what threads you've posted in as the "star" doesn't show up on "new" threads.

So you end up visually scrolling through each post to find one you've been at to respond. There is no way to quick scan like you used to be able to do.

Can this please be fixed because it's making navigating through this maze extremely difficult?

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11 years ago

I like the design changes. It looks more up to date. I'll know how their internal support operations work soon enough-I just put in a support request for one of my WFH threads.

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KloudStrife

11 years ago

I like the change with the new Warrior Forum, it's starting to look much more professional now. I recently rejoined warrior forum after freelancer took over.

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trump7

11 years ago

I feel no change yet but some fonts are changes I think.

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chickenfillet 11 years ago

The red color is far too bright, and is hurting my eyes even when I have the lowest brightness set for my screen.
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  Hi Guys
  
  Matt (Freelancer CEO) here.
  
  Thanks for the great feedback.
  
  Our first mission after taking over Warrior was to get the site stable. I'm pleased to say we have moved it all over to Amazon EC2. We also scaled up the infrastructure a fair bit so that the site stopped crashing and is faster to load. We also are in the process of adding caching layers to speed things even more.
  
  A second thing we've just done is clean up and tighten up the design. There was a huge amount of clutter and flashing icons on the pages which really were quite distracting- some of you might have got used to these however
  
  We are currently building up a dedicated team internally to crack down on spam.
  
  Since we took over we also have launched Warrior Ask Me Anything - a great livestream event series with some of the top guys on Warrior Forum (or who got started on Warrior). If you haven't participated on one of these events I highly encourage you to! There is some great content from some guys who have got fantastic experience. You can ask questions live and get them answered as well. We have archives of previous events in the War Room if you want to take a look at past sessions. So far we have had Noah Kagan (#30 at Facebook, #4 at Mint.com and Chief Sumo of Appsumo), Brian Dean (Backlinko), Rand Fishkin (Moz.com) and Chris Hexton (Vero) and we will continue to run these events weekly.
  
  We have cut the price of WSOs by half and introduced a few new features such as the Sticky WSO and improved reminders about bumping.
  
  We have also added new forum areas for Email Marketing, Growth Hacking and Conversion Optimization where I'm sure we will see some great content.
  
  We have some great new features and functionality coming - but I will keep these as a surprise for now.
  
  Please - if you see any errors or bugs on the site - let us know either by private message to myself or to Alaister Low. We have a whole team working on improving the site day by day and we will fix anything that is broken or buggy.
  
  Also if there is anything you would like to see on the site in terms of new features, we'd love to hear from you! We got a lot of great feedback when we took over that we will be putting into the development pipeline and I'm keen to hear from anyone that has great ideas for improving Warrior even more.
  
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  Our first mission after taking over Warrior was to get the site stable. I'm pleased to say we have moved it all over to Amazon EC2.
  
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  The red is exactly the same as it was before, just the bar is 30px high now.
  
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  The "You have posted in this thread" icon still needs to be fixed. It does not show up over the red so there is no way to tell what threads you've posted in.
  
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  new features and functionality
  
  How about old functionality - search is not working at all for some search types, works intermittently for others, has gaps in the search history.
  
  We've been told it takes time to restore search - but how much time to get it working properly?
  
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copymyideas

11 years ago

Not seen too much change as yet but maybe they have big plans that they are working on

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11 years ago

Awesome , i like new layout and new sections like wama, growth hacker.

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RobinInTexas

11 years ago

Spam is much worse, or I'm less tolerant. It seems like I'm reporting more threads than I'm posting in. And that's not counting the person who posted about 50++ in a few minutes this morning

(afternoon for those East of the USA )

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11 years ago

Originally Posted by RobinInTexas

Spam is much worse, or I'm less tolerant. It seems like I'm reporting more threads than I'm posting in. And that's not counting the person who posted about 50++ in a few minutes this morning

(afternoon for those East of the USA )

Same here, but it seems to take forever before it's removed

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AnniePot 11 years ago

The spam here is the worse it's ever been. As I write, the front page of this thread has more spam than genuine posts. It's a game killer
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drewfioravanti

11 years ago

It's great if I ever need a call girl in Delhi.

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The Great Gordino 11 years ago

I've never seen so much sp*m posting, coincidence since the site move? Possibly, but it's making the home page 'clickawayable' unfortunately
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RobinInTexas 11 years ago

Originally Posted by drewfioravanti

It's great if I ever need a call girl in Delhi.

I wonder if they have branches in Mumbai or Bangalore?
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11 years ago

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11 years ago

I think the forum is rapidly going downhill. Will be ruined in about 6 months at this rate.

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11 years ago

IMO, the black buttons just look too bold compared to the rest of the forum theme design.

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Brent Stangel

11 years ago

Thanks again for all your votes and comments. I appreciate our fearless leader joining in.

I must say this is not quite what I expected as far as poll results. I guess it's still to early to tell as so many changes are still occurring.

I've used all my thanks again so I'll be back to thank the rest of your posts later.

It's irritating to me that now I am not able to see at a glance which threads I've commented on so I can jump back into the conversation

Ditto.

The spam threads are still prevalent. Even after reporting, lately, it seems a while before the threads are removed.

I was irritated at first but we have to remember there will be growing pains. Hopefully the end result will be worth it.

Member moderators will stop reporting them, but maybe with the new owners and hired help, member moderators are no longer required?

I've had similar thoughts.

I'm keen to hear from anyone that has great ideas for improving Warrior even more.

Thanks Matt! I'm sure you will get some...there are some pretty bright people around here.

I wonder if they have branches in Mumbai or Bangalore?

I would be surprised if they didn't. They seem pretty motivated. (:

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