Comments on: Mourning the XuQa Zoo: Part 1

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By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:24:52 +0000

Be ready when opportunity comes…Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

By: Jonny Thompson

Jonny Thompson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:31:55 +0000

I’m going to necro this because I’ve been thinking about all the things I’ve done in the past and such. I’m deploying soon and it’s pretty crazy remembering all of you crazy kids.

Sure this was written 2 years prior, and yeah this may never get read but I hope all of you guys are well.

Take care
Airman First Class Jonathan Nill (Jonny Thompson)

By: Jill Cline

Jill Cline — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:10:42 +0000

By: Celisse

Celisse — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:46:31 +0000

oh wow. I only just saw this. This brings back SO MANY memories and it’s nearly unfathomable to think that it was already two years ago.

I’ll definitely be checking this out.

By: Amanda Gravel

Amanda Gravel — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:36:53 +0000

rawr dug this out of its grave: http://e7thstar.blogspot.com/

By: rawr

rawr — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:28:38 +0000

how i miss xuqa….
seriously, NO ONE wasted more time on that site than i did.
i blame moving to a urban place for that, but anyways…i miss it ;_;
ah…and i did a search for rawr…i had 49 results lol

good job, pebbles ^_^

By: Jayson

Jayson — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:08:03 +0000

True storp. What separated Xuqa apart from the others was that it actually gave a platform for people to speak their mind- whether it was to have fun, actually partake in serious discussions, or whatnot. It was a great networking site- but the developers took it too far and instead of keeping it simple, went overboard.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:44:14 +0000

Gravel I couldn’t have said this better myself. I hope one day the Xuqa developers read this and see just what has happened to a once-great site. Then maybe they’ll finally see that in their attempt to create the “perfect site”, they really just took a growing one and never let it mature, instead making it reach its second childishness way too early.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:09:29 +0000

This gives me memories! Anyway, I think social networking websites struggle with the fact that it’s hard to make money in this space, and the only way you can really do so is by aligning your goals (making money, getting more page views and members) with the population’s goals (having fun, making friends, whatever). What they should have done is figured out what the current members wanted… like maybe get the annoying bugs fixed? Think about it. It’s been two years and still messages and blog posts get stuck. Instead, they went about and did everything wrong. I thought they started out well, especially when they allowed for non-anonymous discussions and also when a primitive moderation system was implemented. But soon after, they started adding superfluous features and diluting the best parts of the site. I loved anonymous discussions, with their sexual tension and unnecessary drama and all.

But in the end, I guess they’re doing what they thought they needed to do and I think they’re making money from it or something. The only thing–and this is kind of painfully obvious–is that a peanut economy with leveling and poker are really lame concepts to build a community around and if that was how it was in the beginning, I’d never have joined.