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I have no idea why I care about the NFL, but I have been going to profootballtalk.com daily for years. NBC partnered with a bunch of independent sports blogs li

by apercu 9y ago

I have no idea why I care about the NFL, but I have been going to profootballtalk.com daily for years. NBC partnered with a bunch of independent sports blogs like PFT a few years ago. They then rolled 'em all out on a new redesign. I stopped visiting after the first couple tries, then PFT backed out of the redesign and went back to their previous (crappy, old) layout. The other blogs I used to go to (pro hockeytalk and pro basketball talk) didn't and I've never returned. What I like about reddit and HN (more so) is the minimal, fast, low overhead experience. It's like the original slashdot. I hate the new animated, ad heavy slow web.

ryanmerket 9y ago
Why not have both?
crazypyro 9y ago
PFT looks like one of those blogs that is just made up stuff, but it is a pretty good source. I feel like their layout actually harms their credibility though.
- heartbreak 9y ago
  Their reputation among hardcore NFL fans is strong enough that they don't need a slick layout.
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hyperpallium 9y ago
"The slow web" is a much better buzzword than web 2.0.
cyxxon 9y ago
I also never get why these sites don't change gradually. I mean, Slashdot tried - their code was a mess, and it looked really old. But it took them ages to rewrite this, and they did it all in one go. Bam! Community was pissed. Why not move the broken old HTML to standard compliant one section at a time, and clean up things here and there, and maybe introduce a new font, or section images, ... instead of this huge explosion_ Sure it might be more work and might also not be completely doable, but if you do it all at once, you are almost guaranteed to alienate your users. And if you are Reddit or Slashdot, that's what makes you. (I somehow triggered a wrong keyboard layout while typing. I tried to find all typos, but probably didn't get them all)
- MrPatan 9y ago
  Most likely Left Alt + Left Shift, if you're on Windows. I use it on purpose now, but man was it baffling when I didn't know what was going on.

by apercu 9y ago

ryanmerket 9y ago

Why not have both?

crazypyro 9y ago

PFT looks like one of those blogs that is just made up stuff, but it is a pretty good source. I feel like their layout actually harms their credibility though.

heartbreak 9y ago
Their reputation among hardcore NFL fans is strong enough that they don't need a slick layout.

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hyperpallium 9y ago

"The slow web" is a much better buzzword than web 2.0.

cyxxon 9y ago

I also never get why these sites don't change gradually. I mean, Slashdot tried - their code was a mess, and it looked really old. But it took them ages to rewrite this, and they did it all in one go. Bam! Community was pissed. Why not move the broken old HTML to standard compliant one section at a time, and clean up things here and there, and maybe introduce a new font, or section images, ... instead of this huge explosion_ Sure it might be more work and might also not be completely doable, but if you do it all at once, you are almost guaranteed to alienate your users. And if you are Reddit or Slashdot, that's what makes you. (I somehow triggered a wrong keyboard layout while typing. I tried to find all typos, but probably didn't get them all)

MrPatan 9y ago
Most likely Left Alt + Left Shift, if you're on Windows. I use it on purpose now, but man was it baffling when I didn't know what was going on.