Tamijo wrote:
Seems to me that MG is in trouble, we have some 60+ teams but we had only 5-6 persons lifting all the workload, the other 90% did nothing or very little to keep the game flowing and that was already an vulnerable situation.
Now core contributors have been absent for quite some time, resulting in no rankings updates due to missing races and I guess that soon the few reporters left can’t keep up and reports will come slower and slower.

With MG in serious trouble, the database team also missing people with time to contribute, stage forum alive but not exactly kicking – and no Stage Database for 2018 ? Even though asked many time no answer to why.

Ya PCM daily may not be dead, but is clearly very dusty, and if the many issues we got are not be addressed quite soon, it looks like we are on a downward spiral.

Avin Wargunnson wrote:


Btw. SKY killed cycling as Cyanide is slowly killing PCM, so here you have my two reasons to not follow those two things so much as i did (ofc my work, my new university study i started and my family has nothing to do with that).

ringo182 wrote:


I think you'll actually find Sky have helped to regenerate cycling after Armstrong nearly destroyed it. They've introduced it to a new audience in Britain who have established themselves as a new power in the sport to rival the classic powers of France, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy and Spain. Whether that will be long term once the British Sky team goes will remain to be seen.

They were also probably key to the growth of this website seeing as this is an English language site and Sky brought a huge number of English speakers to the sport, some of whom will have found their way here.

You can hate them for their success as much as you like, but you can't deny the impact they have had on cycling is huge and will be felt for many years to come.

CrueTrue wrote:
In terms of the whole 'PCM.daily is dying' discussion, several valid points have already been made.

The way I see it, it's mostly a structural problem. Firstly, PC gaming is declining, and it's declining fast. Less people are buying PCM, thus (obviously) reducing the amount of potential members.

Secondly, in the same department of issues, people are using their tablets and mobile phones more and more often rather than going to the PC. Tablets and phones are made for consuming content, not creating it, and thus you will see less activity on sites like PCM.daily that are basically based on user-created content.

Third, you have Steam, you have YouTube, you have Twitch - not to mention Facebook and Twitter. Communities are now more likely to emerge and thrive at platforms like those rather than individual sites such as PCM.daily.

If you look at PCM communities in general, you will see a huge decline across the world. Scandinavia, which historically has one of the strongest and most loyal fanbases - well, it's completely gone. PCMNorge (Norway) has shut down, PCMGeeks, PCMFreaks, PCMScandinavia, PCMdk (all Denmark) and whatever they've all been called have shut down. The latest news item on Benelux' largest community, PCMFocus, is from April 2017. Still activity in the forum, but you get the point. PPDB has been gone for years. France, as far as I know, doesn't even have a 'regular' PCM news site, only forums.

Still plenty of forum activity at various sites, and since I'm out of the game I may not be aware of new communities. But as said - PCM.daily's decline is very much a result of the general structural issues.

That being said, there's obviously a lot that PCM.daily could have done which has not been done - e.g. a stronger presense on 'new' media such as Twitch and YouTube, making a mobile friendly website, evolving the community on social media etc. etc. It could have helped slow the decline, but in the end - well, the result would eventually be the same.

ringo182 wrote:
Am I right in assuming the Awards are cancelled this year

hillis91 wrote:

Been a goner for a while, because i've not had access to the site

Found a way to get to the site now