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Not trying to slay the giants yet, but I'll give it my best shot.

• knieveltech 16y ago
  Rock on with your bad self! If you can differentiate with some kind of value not currently available or poorly implemented elsewhere you've got a shot. Supertopo's the home of crusty legends, dirtbags, and the ocassional crusty legend who is also a dirtbag and a luddite. While the forums there frequently serve as THE source for up to the second info on what the hardman crowd is up to the signal to noise ratio is fucking abysmal. Clean that up and you've got something. rc.com and mountainproject are basically identical in their strengths lie with an active younger community and good route databases. rc.com tries to be too many things to too many people though so the implementation is muddled, whereas mountain project looks like crap and gets maybe half the traffic but the route content is typically much better that rc's. Clean up RC's mess, harness their community and somehow figure out a way to get the same kind of quality content as mountain project, and again, you've got a shot. 8a is spraylord paradise and home of anyone who's ever dreamed of scoring that big chalk sponsorship. I'd leave well enough alone here. Edit - BTW, given the domain name, you wouldn't happen to be hanging out with offwidth climbers would you?
  • csytan 16y ago
    Appreciate the beta on climbing sites! To be honest, I'm a relative newcomer to the climbing world. I've been at it for a year, and still haven't found a news site or forum that is as addictive as HN. Re offwidth climbers -- Nope, not really. Do they have a reputation for thrutching?
    • knieveltech 16y ago
      "thrutching" may be the only term in the english language that sufficiently encapsulates the act of offwidth climbing, even when you're doing it correctly.