DriveTribe - online car community from Clarkson/May/Hamond
Discussion
93DW said:
Have you seriously never heard of one of the worlds biggest websites or is it just an un-amusing way of a man in his late 40's to early 50's to say he doesn't use Facebook?
I haven't heard of it either? What is it? Some kind of online book with a phot of people's faces? I genuinely don't know.
jon- said:
jjr1 said:
Ouch for PH
Not really, PH is an old school forum and will sadly probably die with its members.Their biggest rival is www.carthrottle.com and jalopnik, they're the biggest pure community based sites.
ChemicalChaos said:
My experience of CT is that if you have an MX5, Skyline or some other bit of 90s Japanese tin then they'll circlejerk into a frenzy, but if you have something else then hardly anyone cares.
This, and they love to recycle click baity articles across a lot of their social media plaforms. Artey said:
How does being a copy cat equal being a pioneer. I tried CT twice, not being a FB w
ker I came out if shattered. There's no logic in that interface.
I think you misunderstand me: it is PH which was the pioneer with this whole cars on the internet thing, but it has since been far surpassed by rivals in terms of social media interface; which, whether you like it or not, is the future of on-line communities.ker I came out if shattered. There's no logic in that interface.PH's problem is that it was originally targeted at 30-something TVR enthusiasts, and those early adopters have grown with the site. Sure, there are a few younger subscribers (myself included), but the average PH demographic is mid-40s middle class divorcee who is reluctant to change (hence this wonderfully retro interface we're all forced to used).
Granted, CT is aimed at a much younger audience, but to give Alex his due (even though I find his on-line persona intensely irritating), he's exploited a niche largely left by PH's reluctance to move with the times.
I'm quite excited to see how DriveTribe shakes things up, given that its core appeal will be with the 40-something Jeremy Clarkson fans: this website's typical member.
simonrockman said:
4U2P said:
I haven't heard of it either? What is it? Some kind of online book with a phot of people's faces?
I genuinely don't know.
It's like Friends Reunited but more modern.I genuinely don't know.
Some kind of site that reunited friends? Never heard of it.
/PH
LaurasOtherHalf said:
Cheib said:
Henry Catchpole has just announced he's joining DriveTribe...big loss for Evo IMHO.
Is he leaving Evo or simply writing for DriveTribe as well? Also, from Twitter conversation it seems Harry Metcalfe and Jethro Bovingdon will be on there too.
The site has been running for a couple of weeks now with access restricted to tribe leaders only. It seems (at the moment - not sure if this will change) that you can only log in with a Facebook account, which almost, almost put me off, as I've resisted joining FB for many years, but I bit the bullet & I've been building my tribe page "Reg's Better Drivers" for the last few days.
Taking a brief look around the site, there is a lot of content, some of it quite good - it definitely covers an extremely broad variety of subjects across the whole motoring spectrum. I'm a little old-fashioned & its taking me a while to get used to the format, but it's fairly straightforward to use.
I'm led to believe that there are around 25,000 pre-registered users who will be given access from today onwards, and then it'll be opened up for full public access on or around 28 November.
Taking a brief look around the site, there is a lot of content, some of it quite good - it definitely covers an extremely broad variety of subjects across the whole motoring spectrum. I'm a little old-fashioned & its taking me a while to get used to the format, but it's fairly straightforward to use.
I'm led to believe that there are around 25,000 pre-registered users who will be given access from today onwards, and then it'll be opened up for full public access on or around 28 November.
If anyone is on the beta and fancies helping me out, I need a few tribe members before they allow it to be soft launched -
https://www.drivetribe.com/t/R-UBbQYRQOO7yV-VVlnpb...
https://www.drivetribe.com/t/R-UBbQYRQOO7yV-VVlnpb...
How very disappointing. I was looking forward to this but will not be joining Facebook so it seems I will be able to join Drivetribe now either. I really don't understand why I can't just log in to the website like on here?
I know I'm a 'stick-in-the-mud' but why does everything online seem revolve around Facebook?
I know I'm a 'stick-in-the-mud' but why does everything online seem revolve around Facebook?
Mike335i said:
How very disappointing. I was looking forward to this but will not be joining Facebook so it seems I will be able to join Drivetribe now either. I really don't understand why I can't just log in to the website like on here?
I know I'm a 'stick-in-the-mud' but why does everything online seem revolve around Facebook?
Because that's the way they want it. I'd suspect something commercial in this instance.I know I'm a 'stick-in-the-mud' but why does everything online seem revolve around Facebook?
Nothing stopping you creating the most basic facebook profile ever, and using that.
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