I think we have a winner in the King Ute Message Board contest

The death of UFN changed the game.  This message board blew up over the last 3 months.  I’m curious what the comparison over the last 3 months is between here and Utahby5.

isn’t there a couple of other boards:

Scout, Rivals and 1 other

I’m too busy here to look at other places. But I think post numbers alone do not make the best site. There are other criteria. May post some of my thoughts when I get home in a wee bit.

As an outsider (living in SLC) I use to frequent UFN, mostly to read. I hardly ever post unless I feel like talking smack before matchups like last night.

I actually follow a lot of boards through out the pac-12 and of all 12 teams, Utah is the most intriguing. Having lived in utah for several years now, I have been able to study utah fans closely, and its shocking how divided the fan base is, while united at the same time. most teams dont have 20 different free message boards, IMO, it’d be better to gather them all together instead of comparing and contrasting and trying to outdo the others. obviously religion plays a huge part in that contrast and division.

from what I have gathered between UFN, UH, ,UB5, etc… is that each have their own style of fans. UFN was littered with politics and it looks like since UFN’s shipwreck, a lot of that has transferred over here. Of the 12 pac-12 teams, Utah is by far where I see the most politics discussed.

that’s a reasonable approach.

My drive-by first thoughts of the “competition” for Ute Hub below. I’ve never visited ANY of these sites until just now. Seriously.

Scout

Went to Scout, but it isn’t free. I couldn’t read anything. $10/month. It’s more like a giant board with subcategories for different fan bases? Cool model. Not as home grown though perhaps. If I could get every Ute Hub member to pay $10 a month I could quit my day job. LOL

Rivals

It says Rivals but the logo says Ute Nation. So not sure what that means. I went to the basketball forum. There’s been one thread there in all of 2016 with no replies. No posts in 2017. Maybe I’m missing something or in the wrong place?

Utahby5

I used to run some phpbb and vbulletin boards. That’s the look and feel of this one. Mobile deployment works, but not to my tastes. Categories include The Hinckley Institute, The Institute of Religion, Emigration Canyon-THIS IS THE PLACE. Really? Um, kay. I think I’d be a cultural non-fit there.

Salty Utes

Home grown, which is nice. Pay to opt out of ads. Good idea. Seems a little outdated design wise but I’m so used to UH I have UH colored glasses. It’s fine. I know a UH member runs it so that’s cool. The cesspool category is fitting.

Conclusion

I’m too biased but I have to agree with the assessment in the OP. I think feature and look and feel wise nothing can touch this site, not to mention the user profiles and all the extra fun stuff like pick em games and such.

One small correction on the numbers. We reached 25K in about 1.25 years. But I think post numbers will continue to increase.

EDIT: I was going to try and do multiple one-word posts and say “Here, maybe this will help the post count”. Apparently that’s not allowed…good to know.

Scout and Rivals sites are both pay sites, primarily devoted to recruiting, but with decent off season content. Last year the Rivals team moved, less Alex and a couple more, to scout and merged with Swinney’s team over there. Most of the content from Rivals went there. But Alex did a smart thing and brought on a lot of ex-players to provide their insight. I think those moves improved both of those sites.