As per NaijaBorn, great job and I also think the site should ‘open up’ a little. Guests should be able to take a peek into what the members enjoy before they can be convinced to take a signup decision. In short, adoption should be easy and lean.

Thank you for dropping by. Hope you are able to get around the configuration. Its quite pathetic that ning could change it policy like that.

However, we really didn’t make any mistake by camping with Ning initially. We actually got professional consultation to start up with Ning with the intention of seamlessly migrating the membership database later to our private server. But Ning recently changed their terms of service and thus making it impossible to migrate members of networks created with them.

Now, Ning is hoping to compete with Facebook by suddenly becoming a kind of umbrella social network, while all other networks created through it are being turned into sub-networks or groups. We didn’t have all this when we started with them. So we decided it is better for us to move now when we are still 17,000 in membership than wait till when we are bigger.

We are still perfecting so many things on the new site. And our members have been very co-operative since we moved. The re-registration process has been very impressive too in spite of the initial hiccups we had due to some technical snag. We have dedicated team members that are working hard around the clock with the focus to give Lagosians and all our members the best online experience possible. Many of our members have also volunteered and helping in several ways to get the new site rolling as it ought to. We are really very impressed by this.

Our members are loving what they are seeing at the new site. We also believe new features we are introducing and the flexibility of use of the new site will help in expanding our membership base as we move on. Lagosians.com is actually a place to be now!

We will keep you posted as everything goes.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Cheers!

Seye