Does anyone here also post on Milepoint?
#271
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Stockholm
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Ooooh. I'm kinda sorry to hear this news.
I like it that most points and miles talk (and yes, there already are a couple efforts in other languages) has been kept in a single language.
I don't think balkanization of the information by language is going to be good for the average frequent flyer/points and miles enthusiast.
I like it that most points and miles talk (and yes, there already are a couple efforts in other languages) has been kept in a single language.
I don't think balkanization of the information by language is going to be good for the average frequent flyer/points and miles enthusiast.
For example Swedish frequent flyer/points and miles enthusiasts like the sites in our own language and the other sites in Norwegian and Danish that we can follow if we want to.
#272
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Seriously, though, if those language-specific sites fill a niche then good for them! ^
#274
Join Date: Mar 2007
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#275
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#276
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What is puzzling is the crazy expansion of the milepoint/bonusfeber franchise into minor EU markets where they are at best #2 or 3. In the meantime they are not active (yet) in the big travel markets Germany and UK. I suppose setting up a new site and filling it with seed content by volunteers is pretty easy and inexpensive
#277
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True, but from what I can see most of our contributors have English as their native language and probably 99% are comfortable writing in English.
Those from non-English speaking nations I am most familiar with are Israelis and Italians and only a tiny percentage of these are fluent enough in English to be able to use FT.
Those from non-English speaking nations I am most familiar with are Israelis and Italians and only a tiny percentage of these are fluent enough in English to be able to use FT.
#278
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#279
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Germany has Vielfliegertreff and Vielfliegerforum. The UK already has this fine airline/travel/anything-to-do-with-UK forum.
I suspect the language/market/'node' selections are driven by the presence of native-speaking volunteers/partners.
#280
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Germany has Vielfliegertreff and Vielfliegerforum. The UK already has this fine airline/travel/anything-to-do-with-UK forum.
#281
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#282
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#283
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These graphs are becoming quite intruiging. The overall shapes are not dissimilar, including the approximate tripling of unique visitors since April 2014. What's causing that? Web use hasn't tripled in the last four to six months, surely - so is this an artefact caused by some increasing deficit in counting methods (eg more people blocking counting cookies)?
#284
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compete.com is probably not the best metric as it derives traffic from various sources and uses/displays US data only. That said its the only metric we have and data is available all the way back till the start of MP. @:-)
#285
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Join Date: May 1998
Location: NYC
Posts: 163
So they do not know the exact traffic on milepoint or flyertalk. They are extrapolating a guess as to the total traffic on those sites. In fact, many sites I've seen on there, where I can compare their numbers with actual numbers are usually not even close. The recent uptick in reported visitors probably has to do with a change in the people on their panel rather than a sharp change in visitors to either site.
[1] https://www.compete.com/about-compete/our-data/