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"Gardenweb" is pretty much finished?

9 years ago

Google's blurb says: "Houzz is the new way to design your home.
Browse 15 million interior design photos, home decor, decorating ideas
and home professionals online."

That is about all that's left, no? Gardening is pretty well defunct, gone?

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trickyputt

9 years ago

Not hardly, but whomsoever thought it was a good idea to blend them in the manner they did is not able to impress me with their superior knowledge of demographics and channel theory- or execution of same.

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Laurie (8A)
8 years ago
I agree. I get so annoyed when I have to fight with the computer just to get to the gardenweb And clicking no thanks every few minutes can't be good for business either.
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Mokinu
8 years ago
I don't think it's dead. I think it's on the uprise, currently. I think people are just still getting used to the change (i.e. I think a lot of the old users left with the change, and now we're getting new people, as well as some of the old people back).
Mokinu
8 years ago
See my comments in [this thread[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/is-this-forum-dead-dsvw-vd~4920660) for how I answered the question in the not so distant past, and for suggestions on how I think Houzz could improve GardenWeb to improve its user base.
Mokinu
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
Laurie, yeah, I can relate. It's not fun to have to go through all those steps to get where you want to go. In the meantime, while you're waiting for them to spruce things up (hopefully they do), then you can always bookmark the forums you use the most, as well as this page with the big list of them. There are a few missing from that page, though, I think—like the cooking forum. There's another cooking forum out there somewhere (I think it's called Cooking with Your Harvest; oh, it's actually just the regular Harvest forum, which is on the list). Then there's the recipe exchange.
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Original Author
8 years ago
Last evening during Jeopardy! on OTA TV a houzz advert showed up. Nothing about gardening there either.
Embothrium
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
There's always much more interest in houses etc. than in yards, that's just the way it is. Except during the holidays, when many in my seasonally damp and dull climate area mount amazing outdoor light displays - yet do nothing noticeable with the same spaces the rest of the year.

Even during times and places where some wealthy landowners have made large involved gardens that covered acres there was often a huge house full of sometimes priceless treasures - and little taxation of the upper class - involved as well. With the gardening the first thing to be cut when and if things got tight.

I only have to click No Thanks every few minutes when I am not logged in.
albert_135 　 39.17°N 119.76°W 4695ft.
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago

Like an Old Testament prophet Janes was right on.

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