We made the Top 5 Ski Forums this year based on Feedspot. We are moving up the list for sure coming in at a solid second place. When we first launched just over 5 years ago, we were #34.
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Pugski.com is one of the "Top 5 Ski Forums"
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We're #1 in the Americas.. #2 in the world. Anyone else think it's weird that an Australia based forum is so popular globally? I'd think Austria or some place in the Alps might be the top dog, but Australia??
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Honestly, I didn't know that forum even existed until I saw the list. It looks like ti was started around 2000, so about when Epic started. In lurking around the site, Pugski.com is referenced quite often. Congrats to them for coming out #1.
Meh. Euros are... Euro...
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Don't want to piss on anyone's cornflakes but that's one hella weird algo that site is running if its truly ranking forums. J2ski is many things like a very useful database/blog but it isn't an active forum community like pugski and snowheads gets multiples of forum posts per day compared to J2ski. Example you have to go back to 7 November to find the last post on Equipment (hardly a COVID excuse there).
As for Euros - people are going to post to their local area groups etc in the main. In fact the whole concept of forums is a bit outdated - local groups on Faceache much though I hate it outnumber forum activity by heaps.
As for Euros - people are going to post to their local area groups etc in the main. In fact the whole concept of forums is a bit outdated - local groups on Faceache much though I hate it outnumber forum activity by heaps.
Remarkable that the Alpin Forum (German/Austrian) is not in that top-5...
An Oz forum being the top ski forum in the world. That's the craziest thing I have heard for a long time.
I think Feedspot's moderation team have paid too much attention to their google search results (ski.com.au comes in top two spots on a search for "Ski Forum"). @Tricia they do mention newschoolers and snowheads in the "other forums" list.
So in fairness to Feedspot they may be moderating numerous blogs without community specific knowledge, therefore we need to apply our own ski community knowledge and get the following result:
Ski Forum
1. PugSki
J2Ski
2. TGR
TheSkiDiva
FirstTracksOnline
3. Newschoolers
4. Snowheads
Top result either way @Philpug and @Tricia
I think Feedspot's moderation team have paid too much attention to their google search results (ski.com.au comes in top two spots on a search for "Ski Forum"). @Tricia they do mention newschoolers and snowheads in the "other forums" list.
So in fairness to Feedspot they may be moderating numerous blogs without community specific knowledge, therefore we need to apply our own ski community knowledge and get the following result:
Ski Forum
1. PugSki
J2Ski
2. TGR
TheSkiDiva
FirstTracksOnline
3. Newschoolers
4. Snowheads
Top result either way @Philpug and @Tricia
So, you're saying we're number 1?An Oz forum being the top ski forum in the world. That's the craziest thing I have heard for a long time.
I think Feedspot's moderation team have paid too much attention to their google search results (ski.com.au comes in top two spots on a search for "Ski Forum"). @Tricia they do mention newschoolers and snowheads in the "other forums" list.
So in fairness to Feedspot they may be moderating numerous blogs without community specific knowledge, therefore we need to apply our own ski community knowledge and get the following result:
Ski Forum
1. PugSki
J2Ski
2. TGR
TheSkiDiva
FirstTracksOnline
3. Newschoolers
4. Snowheads
Top result either way @Philpug and @Tricia
I did join the AU site and lurked a bit. Its got some good discussion. I'll pop back over when I have time.
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Suspect they are only ranking English language sites anyway and as we've said not distinguishing between blogs and forums. All seems a bit crude but then I don't expect they are doing much more than robo scraping some data and ranking based on it.
regardless, its great to be recognized and kudos to Phil, Trish and all who make the site the success it is.
The Feedspot list ignores online forums outside the Anglosphere i.e. Alpin Forum (DE) and Ski Pass (FR) which is a pity because both sites contain a wealth of information and using today’s technology anyone with a Google Chrome browser can automatically read and translate.
From my limited time on that forum, I can only take one guess on why they've created such a large global following...Australian skiers travel for skiing...a lot. Many take trips to the Northern Hemisphere during our winter, plus they have a good amount of resorts for their winter. This creates a pretty solid following year round. Plus, the site itself is an incredible wealth of information for ski travel advice; which I think would create a global following rather than a local one. I asked a lot of questions and got a lot of invaluable advice from that forum when planning my Japan trip...they have an entire Japan subforum.
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We all know Pugski has always been the best. Even better than that one that got terminated some years ago. What was it? Epicenter? Epilogue? Epi-pen? Aw heck, I can't remember.
Yay, Pugski!
Yay, Pugski!
