This post indicates that our concerns have been heard. Give them a chance. Clearly discussions are taking place and some changes will be made. Whether those changes will be acceptable to the community can only be judged after we have seen them; but in view of this post it is most unfair to say that our concerns have not been heard. Why do you suppose they used the megaphone graphic?
This post indicates that our concerns have been heard. Give them a chance.
They've had three months, they've had their chance. They squandered it.
in view of this post it is most unfair to say that our concerns have not been heard
In view of their complete failure to fix the known bugs in the Beta, let alone to materially alter a fundamentally flawed design... it's quite fair to say that our concerns have not been heard. From this and corporatespeak nature of timothy's post, it's quite clear that th
I think they understand the magnitude of their "failure" which isn't a failure in their eyes. They bought/., but they clearly don't want/., so they are going to demolish it and build something new.
It's not like you can "fix" the beta, because every single thing about it that is different from the site as it is now is wrong. I'm not talking from an aesthetic point of view, although aesthetically, the beta is like goat sick, but it systematically demolishes every piece of functionality that makes/. good.
I've been wondering about this myself. What if they see the existing userbase as more of a cost than a potential for revenue? We're more likely than average to use adblockers and NoScript when compared to the typical web user - maybe the cost of our bandwidth is outweighing the money they make off ad impressions? Pure speculation, but it would explain some of the behavior we've seen.
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This post indicates that our concerns have been heard. Give them a chance. Clearly discussions are taking place and some changes will be made. Whether those changes will be acceptable to the community can only be judged after we have seen them; but in view of this post it is most unfair to say that our concerns have not been heard. Why do you suppose they used the megaphone graphic?
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They've had three months, they've had their chance. They squandered it.
In view of their complete failure to fix the known bugs in the Beta, let alone to materially alter a fundamentally flawed design... it's quite fair to say that our concerns have not been heard. From this and corporatespeak nature of timothy's post, it's quite clear that th
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I think they understand the magnitude of their "failure" which isn't a failure in their eyes. They bought /., but they clearly don't want /., so they are going to demolish it and build something new.
It's not like you can "fix" the beta, because every single thing about it that is different from the site as it is now is wrong. I'm not talking from an aesthetic point of view, although aesthetically, the beta is like goat sick, but it systematically demolishes every piece of functionality that makes /. good.
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