Update 10 July 2009.
An alternative to womf has been created at http://lowveldnet.co.za/community. Our Goal is 1000 users within 3 months.
Caxtons have entered into an agreement with an Australian Company to supply them with a forum. I fail to see why South African businesses are not good enough. As I understand it WOMF supplies Caxtons with many localised domains like lowveld.womf.com.
They then in turn advertise this as a blog site when, the only similarity between WOMF and a blog is that the content is user generated. This site is even more backward than the Mweb blogs where I occassionaly still leave a rant.
You cannot add pictures, you cannot link, you can type thats it. The site is worse than a web 1.0 style forum. In most forums you can add images at the very least. Anybody from the lowveld that wants a real blog, talk to me. I will show you how
Tags: blog, forum, Lowveld, WOMF
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