I’m looking at the Yuku homepage right now for “Yuku – Message Boards 2.0″.

The main image to the site – they have a revolving image script running – shows three pregnant women, presumably this is advertising a feature of the Profiles element of Yuku where they’re trying to compete with the likes of MySpace. When you sign up to Yuku, the information they require apart from a username and password is ASL: Age, Sex, Location. Your profile page by default also shows your sexual orientation and what you’re on Yuku for (including “Fun”, “Dating”, “Relationships” and “Meet People”).

The Communities element is the message board system – currently lacking many of the features of cheaper offerings elsewhere – which will eventually include the migrated ezboards.

But what about this Media Sharing element? No, I can’t actually work out what that means. When you sign up to Yuku, your profile comes with 9.54MB of space for image files only, i.e. no music, no video. And, er, that’s it. Bearing in mind a free Photobucket account comes with 1GB of storage for images and video (images up to 1MB and video up to 100MB), I’d hardly call Yuku’s pathetic offering “Media Sharing”.

But then, what else would you expect from ezboard, Inc.?

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