DriveTribe - online car community from Clarkson/May/Hamond

DriveTribe - online car community from Clarkson/May/Hamond

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SrMoreno

546 posts

145 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Looks interesting. Maybe it will treat users like adults and allow swearing?

INWB

896 posts

106 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Signed up a couple of days ago. Drive Tribe sounds a good name and they are obviously marketing it differently. I wonder if this name will also be used across into the Amazon show. For reach it would make sense although this appears a totally separate enterprise. We shall see but if they get this right it could be in another nail in Top gears coffin.

If Clarkson starts writing columns I will likely cancel my Times membership.

As for other competition - obv Pistonheads but also Jalopnik which seems to be struggling somewhat currently (although they have just advertised for more writers). But competition is good isn't it? It will perhaps mean that users just dilute the amount of time they spend on sites. Not sure.


Leins

9,413 posts

147 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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I'm beginning to feel that car forums have just about had their day. I used to post regularly on quite a few, and even set one up once that's still running, although I've no longer any involvement in it. However, PH is the only place I bother with now, and I feel any new forums have an uphill struggle to achieve a foothold, whoever the backers

Has everyone just gone to Facebook now?

MDMA .

8,849 posts

100 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Leins said:
Has everyone just gone to Facebook now?
what is Facebook ? sorry, never been on it. is it a car forum ?

lostkiwi

4,584 posts

123 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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MDMA . said:
Leins said:
Has everyone just gone to Facebook now?
what is Facebook ? sorry, never been on it. is it a car forum ?
Beats me. I've never used it either.

Your Dad

1,924 posts

182 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Sure I read somewhere that they were having a competition to win a Lotus Elise.

V8RX7

26,762 posts

262 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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caelite said:
MrOrange said:
Impasse said:
Will it have avatars?
Will it have forum software from this century. Will it be designed to work on mobiles. I'm tired in living in 1999.
I like PHs layout. Whenever people try to "modernise" forum layouts they always end up way to heavy and tend to be more difficult to use than old simple designs.
No Avatars

No Sigs

Simple, basic, fast is the best format both for forums and cars !

I suspect a Top Gear type forum will attract the plebs - which will be handy.

Bennet

2,119 posts

130 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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I don't have anything against the former Top Gear presenters but I suspect, because of the popular association with the them, the new site may attract a very lot of kids and idiots. It may even act as a convenient vacuum for them.

FurtiveFreddy

8,577 posts

236 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Bennet said:
I don't have anything against the former Top Gear presenters but I suspect, because of the popular association with the them, the new site may attract a very lot of kids and idiots. It may even act as a convenient vacuum for them.
I'd say that's probably part of what they're hoping for. As long as they have access to a credit card or Paypal account or their parents can buy them 'credits'...

Or, at the very least, they'll collect a lot of data from their subscribers and profit from it somewhere down the line.

MarkRSi

5,782 posts

217 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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V8RX7 said:
No Avatars

No Sigs

Simple, basic, fast is the best format both for forums and cars !
Agree, pretty much every other forum is more fancy but can't beat PH's KISS approach.

Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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"The content platform will be run separately to their as-yet-unnamed car programme on Amazon Prime, with the aim being to create another income stream for the not quite rich enough yet trio"

Fixed that.

Iva Barchetta

44,044 posts

162 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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EnglishTony said:
Iva Barchetta said:
PH works on my phone,using it now ....confused
Me too. Perhaps we are fortunate in having mobile phones from this century.
He's never going to get much with that Nokia 2110...biglaugh

Jimmy Recard

17,540 posts

178 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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MarkRSi said:
Agree, pretty much every other forum is more fancy but can't beat PH's KISS approach.
Is this the Pistonheads moderator team?


jimbobs

429 posts

255 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Honeywell said:
"Former Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond are set to launch a new online venture, DriveTribe.

The content platform will be run separately to their as-yet-unnamed car programme on Amazon Prime, with the aim being to create an online community for oafish, UKIP supporting, climate-change-denying, pub bores and nerdy 14 year-olds...
getmecoat

Sump

5,484 posts

166 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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MarkRSi said:
V8RX7 said:
No Avatars

No Sigs

Simple, basic, fast is the best format both for forums and cars !
Agree, pretty much every other forum is more fancy but can't beat PH's KISS approach.
There is KISS and then there is just outdated. You can easily modernise this forum for all platforms and keep the interface just as simple.

chris285

811 posts

131 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Can't see a facebook based venture working on it's own, imagine trying to keep track of the amount of content like on PH on facebook it would be a nightmare. Forums like this have a place IMO, only way facebook would work is segregation into brands or whatever but strikes me as going down the forum route

getawayturtle

3,560 posts

173 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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jimbobs said:
Honeywell said:
"Former Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond are set to launch a new online venture, DriveTribe.

The content platform will be run separately to their as-yet-unnamed car programme on Amazon Prime, with the aim being to create an online community for oafish, UKIP supporting, climate-change-denying, pub bores and nerdy 14 year-olds...
getmecoat
Or it could be like PH with bores taking something that has nothing to do with politics, and trying to make it about politics. Some people can't help themselves I guess?

sidekickdmr

5,065 posts

205 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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I won’t be bothering, I like PH's simple (and work screen safe) basic look and broad range of interests, people and topics.

Not just a bunch of spotty teenagers and “POWER” fans talking about what’s the quickest supercar on a track.

I find it hard to keep up with all the sub forums and topics discussed on PH, let alone elsewhere.

Artey

757 posts

105 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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jon- said:
Their biggest rival is www.carthrottle.com and jalopnik, they're the biggest pure community based sites.
I wouldn't piss on jalopnik if it was on fire.

eldar

21,614 posts

195 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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V8RX7 said:
No Avatars

No Sigs

Simple, basic, fast is the best format both for forums and cars !

I suspect a Top Gear type forum will attract the plebs - which will be handy.
No search function cluttering it up.