Galaxyvoyager2 wrote: ↑Sat 25-Jun-2022 11:41 pm
It's not what Backpage or Craigslist used to be, you could really find hidden gems on Backpage/Craigslist. And at the time social media didn't exist so the hidden gems that would be on Backpage are now only doing only fans screwing their boyfriends and not showing their faces. Also, I have an inclination that Leolist was bought out by a Chinese enterprise. They also bought out announce which was a french version of backpage/leolist. If a Canadian would try to do that they would get sent to Kingston and JT would give a whole spiel about women's rights and misogyny, but because they are Chinese and the current government is controlled by the Chicoms they can do whatever they want, that's why you see all those low ball Chinese shops spamming like it's 1999.
I agree with the first part of that, back in the old days, there was a lot more wild west with sites like CraigsList and Backpages.
Backpages was of course owned by the people behind The Village Voice - odd bedfellows for sure.
But then we all know what happened there.
It seems like LeoList was bought up by Unicorn Media back in 2019, Hungarian not Chinese. Unicorn Media seems to own a bunch of classified sites in Europe.
But if you go to http://www.unicornmedia.pl there doesn't seem to be any mention of LeoList on the site - probably trying to keep that part of the business in the background?
LeoList has since bought up Annonceintime and Humpchies (adult classifieds from Quebec)
Getting back on topic, I think it's the same issues sites like TERB or Backpacge struggled with: how do you keep your paying customers happy (the advertisers) while not letting them get away with things that hurt the site's credibility.
CraigsList's solution was to make advertising on it free (advertisers lose power) and let users flag ads (users get power).
But CraigsList made its money from other sections (apartment rentals), I don't think LeoList could do that, because its name is so synonymous with adult content now.
IMHO the best thing would be to start a new brand using the same platform but focused on the non-adult side, then use profit from that to run LeoList.
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Humpchies & Annonceintime join LeoList! (2022)
https://www.leolist.cc/blog/en/annonceintime-hump-post-merge/
https://www.seekerstime.com/leolist-canada-based-classified-site-announces-change-of-its-ownership/
https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/19/07/ab14012100/leolist-announces-a-change-in-ownership-the-largest-classified-site-in-canada-plans-its-expansion
https://www.ceginformacio.hu/cr9311418943_EN