Comments on: FiveOuncesOfPain.com sets traffic record for sixth month in a row

By: Mr. Takedown

Mr. Takedown — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:51:51 +0000

i loath forums…

By: garth

garth — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:14:29 +0000

lolololol i’d nevar get in taht forom !!!!!1 11!

By: Sam Cupitt

Sam Cupitt — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:15:28 +0000

…I want to see this fight

By: Fightlinker.com

Fightlinker.com — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:52:40 +0000

hehe i remember being that one person commenting. Great site, great growth. Keep up the good work and i see only more success for you in 2008 (except of course in the cage, sucka)

By: Sam Cupitt

Sam Cupitt — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:59:45 +0000

If we are going to have a forum then this is how i suggest we do it. We just have your normal every day forum which lets the idiots run wild and then after looking at that we can identify the users who actually post good stuff and not topics like “Is AnToNi HARDonk teH greatest FiTer in the World?!!!!11one” And once we’ve identified the good ones we promote them to members who have access to the forum thats not full of idiots.

Probably would take a lot of work, but we could avoid the Sherdog problems.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:46:54 +0000

This is one of the five sites i visit everyday. Keep up the good work and I’ll keep stopping by. Thanks for providing all the info you do.

By: Mr. Takedown

Mr. Takedown — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:43:36 +0000

For some contests, we only take one submission per person; for others as many as you want.

We are looking at forum options and agree with you on the no sherdog-style.

We also plan to have some kind of real-time discussion during PPV’s. Personally I’d like to take it beyond “live blogging” and move toward an IM/chat style. Need to find the best technology for that. It would be truly badass to chat about the fights as they happen with fans from all over (the UFC should jump all over this idea).

Question for tech geeks out there… we are currently in a shared hosting environment. In order to effectively run forums, live discussion, and grow the site, we figure we’ll need to move to a dedicated server. Does anyone have any recommendations on the best way to do that??

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:57 +0000

Love the contests but whats the rule on multiple submissions? Are you just taking the first thing people post?

Down the road I would like to see a forum that is strictly kept “sherdog style” free. Or at least a real time discussion feature for live fights. It would be a great feature for people like myself who follow MMA closely but don’t have friends that are really into it.

By: Mr. Takedown

Mr. Takedown — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:55:29 +0000

hugs and kisses for all – what a love fest!!

What do you guys want to see from us in ’08? What do you think of the contests/prizes? Anything we can add to the site to make us that much more totally awesomer?

- Matt

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:04:20 +0000

heh….you’re welcome garth.

Once this site hit its stride and style it changed over night. Good job guys.

By: garth

garth — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:53:41 +0000

goddam it evan, that was nice of you. you bastard

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:44:39 +0000

garth, you’re a dumbass

By: garth

garth — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:36:37 +0000

kickass. i kinda miss the days when it was me and two or three other dudes occasionally calling each other names, tho.

By: Dizzle

Dizzle — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:23:08 +0000

Happy New Year. Hope everyone has a prosperous New Year and I hope this Site grows and becomes the biggest MMA News and Opinion site on the interweb.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:38:20 +0000

Thanks for making my 12 hr shifts at work alot more bareable. You’re the first site I check on my blackberry on my breaks and lunch. Thanks alot.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:30:09 +0000

your in my RSS

i love this website

By: Matt Boone

Matt Boone — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:20:07 +0000

You got the designer/coder to thank for a lot of that, more than you’d think. You came outta nowhere to dominate the piss out of Google/Yahoo key searches along with me and some other sites that always show up for popular terms. I imagine that helped a ton, especially when there is a big UFC event.

By: Andrej

Andrej — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:42:28 +0000

Awesome Site, got me hooked just like Fightlinker, Fightopinion, Bloodyelbow, Bloodyknux, Sherdog, mmajunkie, ect…. all good sites in one way or another. Keep up the good work.

By: Cat

Cat — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:36:41 +0000

Thanks! i am a new reader as well as a new MMA fan. I am still learning, and you are helping. Its a pleasure to read this site!

By: Carson

Carson — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:52:36 +0000

Well done Sam. I’ve got you on my RSS feed, always looking for updates. Happy new year.