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- Tichy 18y agoThey are in the news business and need to make entertaining stories. I don't see the big deal - all news outlets try to make as much drama as possible, and Arrington seems to be good with words. It's the way of the news.
- Mystalic 18y agoTechCrunch's quality has gone down over the last year. The problem is that Arrington has critical mass, and not following TechCrunch could keep you out of the loop on some important stories or conversations. At some point though, I won't be able to handle it and will unsubscribe, regardless of how many people follow his news.
- extantproject 18y agoImportant stories like Twitter's downtime or del.iciou.us not pushing new software when Arrington decides they should?
- mcxx 18y agoI never followed TC, I just go here. Interesting worthwhile stories make it to the front page.
- adrianwaj 18y agoIts problem is the commenting system. Needs something like Digg.
- lpgauth 18y agoThey also need some kind of comment moderation but I guess if there is no moderation in the blog post what can you expect :?
- adrianwaj 18y agoIf Arrington is after traffic, people would stick around to read and participate in comments moreso if it was actually usable. Regarding the posts, I think better comments would encourage more cooperation by the websites who are profiled as the comments could be more valuable.
- immad 18y agoDisqus is the answer to all commenting systems! :)
- coglethorpe 18y agoAm I the only one who finds that TechCrunch is unreachable most of the time? I assume its server is overwhelmed with traffic. Possibly the problem is on my end, but I don't have problems with other sites. I find it strange that the guy who complains about Twitter's downtime seems to have some of his own to deal with.
- greyman 18y agoI tend to agree with the article, especially the "impatience factor". What I especially don't like is the practice of "private beta invitations". I am wasting time reading "news" about features of some new online service, only to find out that it's not available yet, but Techcrunch has "50 free invitations for its readers". It's a win-win-lost situation - startup got publicity, TC is "first to report it", but I wasted my time. What I think TC got right is the blog-like format + discussions + quick reporting. But the content stinks. I hope competition will take him over.
- greenagain 18y agoI think they need to decide whether they want to be a personal blog for Arrington's uninformed self-injection or real journalism. Right now, I think they're pretending to the latter while operating as the former.
- bbgm 18y agoI don't read Techcrunch unless someone points me to a story that sounds like it might be interesting which is rare. However, people seem to read, and their traffic hasn't suffered, so I doubt that the site is going to change anything soon. For that matter, who cares what Techcruch is writing about. By moaning about it here, we're giving it airtime that could be used for something more useful. Ignore it, and perhaps others will too over time (or they'll change their focus). Yes, the site has influence, but to think it's the only way to get noticed is only adding fuel to the fire.
- adnam 18y ago> By moaning about it here, we're giving it airtime that could be used for something more useful. Ignore it yes, sorry. I'm slightly horrified that my rant is #1 on HN. In a nice way though.
- adrianwaj 18y agoLook they even get reprinted in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/09/AR2008050902914.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05...
- noor420 18y agoTechCrunch needs a comment system like the one used here @ hackernews. It will then be more fun.
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- pg 18y agoThis is the top story on Hacker News? Embarrassing. Should I add downvotes on stories, for users over a certain karma threshold?
- brlewis 18y agoI didn't vote it up myself, but I'm not surprised that on a slow news day, something about TC would get voted up by a lot of people interested in tech (especially web) startup news. A lot of people ask for downvotes when they're particularly annoyed by a particular story, but they're always told to just go vote up something good. A more moderate change might be to allow people to undo their upvotes if they decide the story wasn't worth saving after all. You have more data and experience than anybody else. Try out what you think will be best and undo it if it doesn't work.
- fallentimes 18y agoYes. Please. A couple week trial period couldn't hurt. What's there to lose?
- davidw 18y ago+1 to a trial period. Give it a month, collect some data, publish it, and see how things worked out.
- emmett 18y agoI constantly find myself wanting to downvote specific stories. My only other choice is to upvote everything around it, which isn't what I really mean to do.
- gojomo 18y agoIt's worth a try. If story downvotes existed, stories like this might not even be upvoted... I suspect most of its upvotes reflect pent-up demand for downvotes on previous TC material.
- robg 18y agoI think it's just an anti-TC sensibility that's emerging with the recent focus on twitter's troubles. TC seemed necessary when it was promoting startup efforts. But technical critiques seems well-beyond its niche (and I'll admit a bit terrifying to someone developing an application).
- josefresco 18y agoAlternatives to TechCrunch, choose one, be happy: CenterNetworks Mashable! VentureBeat Read/Write Web
- brlewis 18y agoCan anybody give reasons to favor one of those four above the others?
- unalone 18y agoMashable I would advise against. It's full of fluff articles, and sometime a year or two ago had the inexplicable idea of turning into a social network itself. It's a mess of a site and its writing is no better. Though I don't follow many blogs anymore, period, R/WW writes fewer articles, but it tends to do a much better job with making sure the articles it DOES write are good. It's fairly high-quality.
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- alaskamiller 18y agoMashable sucks a lot, their posts are just derivative of whatever PR piece is sent to their email. They implemented a social network to get them more pageviews but it's now turned into a porn den. VentureBeat started out by just reporting VC money and so on but switched. I liked him when he was with Mercury News but I haven't really been visiting his site as the other ones pretty much covers it. Allen Stern wants to be like Michael Arrington and he's done a good job thus far. He breaks news every now and then and provides great analysis. Silicon Alley Insider is shaping up to be a great tech news source. Topical, on point, and constantly updated. And as much shit as Valleywag gets around these parts, they're still a top read in my book if you're an outsider in the Valley and want to pretend you fit in.
- Prrometheus 18y ago>They implemented a social network to get them more pageviews but it's now turned into a porn den. The story of the internet.
- sealedidentity 18y agowell isn't it better to just ignore TC? I mean it's easy to critique something, where once we had insight all we have now is backchatter. And seriously, this doesn't deserve to be on YC.
- popshop 18y agoI hate Arrington as much as the next guy, but I know first-hand that 1. The database architecture of delicious is outmoded (i.e. thought up by Josh for a much more limited use) and as a result 2. they simply cannot get the 2.0 version to work (i.e. scale).
- rw 18y agoIt's clear that Techcrunch is preparing to buy Valleywag.
- t0pj 18y ago"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." --Eleanor Roosevelt
- garfieldheights 18y agoI do think we have more interesting things to talk about here.
- Wesmax27 18y agoIs it just me or did these types of articles start appearing once Arrington started promoting HN on TC?
- drawkbox 18y agoTo be honest I hope del.icio.us 2.0 never launches. Usually Yahoo has a knack of making things less usable. I really think they have a solid offering now (that is what made it purchasable) I would hate it to be another yahoo tv. However I hardly go there, usually a track for me. so they could get some more traffic there if they changed their site but the service within the browser and distributed bookmarks will always be their main point.