Well I thought about being a pessimist in the last post, but decided against it. But now that I take a look at Worldsex it really doesn't seem THAT different from my site...to me anyways.
Isn't it nearly impossible to grow a TGP to the size of Worldsex these days? IMO that site isnt that great...he just got in before the market was raped with saturation.
I'm using this site as an example because, out of the ones you mentioned, I suppose it's the most similar to mine. The main differences I notice are: he has black, dark blue, and yellow whereas I have black, light blue, and pink. He has more ads, shorter descriptions, and several columns whereas I only have 1 column. His site is spread out more wheras mine is kind of 'compact'.
He also uses a larger font.
I just can't see how my site looks anymore like something a sponsor threw together than his site does. I could replicate Worldsex if I wanted, but I'm not a dick so I'm not gonna try to rip the guy off.
All in all I just find it odd that many of the largest text tgps are the oldest, and it would seem that design has little to do with their traffic. There's no denying that it is much more difficult to start a TGP from scratch today than it was in 1995-1999. Perhaps it costs less today, but as far as design skills go, all the oldest (coincidentally largest) TGPs arent that impressive.
To me, sites like Wow TGP are impressive, even though he did just pay a guy to design it. Sites like Easy Pic and the Hun aren't so impressive IMO.
I don't mean to offend any of these sites owners, but come on...what do they have that most smaller new TGPs dont have (besides a decade of bookmarkers)?
That's all. If you'd like to debate this, feel free...perhaps I'll learn something amidst our argument.
later
c-lo