WAYN www.wayn.com

Used to be great but now it's lame & useless

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“Used to be great but now it's lame and useless”

Written on: 07/07/2012

I joined Wayn around late 2008. Seemed to be the zenith of the website's popularity. There was lot of interaction and it was bustling with activity. Most members were genuinely passionate about traveling and offering their help and tips if you were coming to their area or destination where they had traveled before.

Wayn started to go clearly downhill during late 2009 and 2010. The UI got filled with ads, the website got buggy, they removed the section where you could write review about hotels, restaurants etc. People started to leave, they removed some features that had helped to increase user interaction. More and more messages started to come from perverts and romance scammers. Then more and more previously free features became VIP aka paid only. Early 2011 they added some ok features that made the site bit better like you could make the site to automatically ask travel tips from people for destinations where you were planning to travel...well in the end they removed that feature.

Well nowadays the owners have pretty much killed the website with their greed. Nowadays almost all functions are VIP only. Now you can't even see who visited your profile, you can't read all the messages or see who sent them in the first place unless you cough up money for Wayn and get the VIP memberships. It doesn't cost much but paying it isn't worth of semi-dead, greed filled den the website is nowadays.

Probably one of the worst social networks when it comes to greed and money grubbing...

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Written on: 10/07/2012

I agree completely. The true "Wayn" is no more. We need a real travel site - like Wayn used to be. How is it possible to completely destroy something that was a shining star in the social network jungle ?

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Written on: 15/08/2012

Feels like the owners don't care about their site/community anymore. They seemingly just want to milk as much money out of members as possible before closing the website.

Doesn't take a business degree from Harvard to figure out that members wont stay for long if you make even sending messages to other members to require paid membership. If you want to generate long-term profit you must offer quality service to the members instead of making it worse quality and the same time expecting people to pay more.

Yeah it's sad no site has really risen up to fill the place Wayn left when it went downhill. Lonely Planet has nice forum but not much of community features. Tripadvisor has way too many ads and the interface is kinda messy. Virtualtourist would need serious update to make the site more 21st century. Travbuddy is seemingly losing members and activity for various reasons. Then there's some smaller travel sites but they're in serious need of more members and activity.

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