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They Are Scribd
- Mistone 18y agolatimes showing some ycombinator love of late. good write up, captures the unique side of this cool company. sounds like a fun place to work.
- mynameishere 18y agoThe selling point: No more downloading; you can view everything in your browser. Huh? What have I been doing up till now?
- alaskamiller 18y agoBeing miserable. Rejoice at this new bright future of no more downloading.
- breck 18y agoYour browser contains an entire copy of the Internet. Haven't you noticed the immense amount of RAM Firefox and IE take up nowadays?
- kaos 18y agoi love scribd, more for the comunity (groups, friends, comments, related docs, etc) than for the ipaper itself. but i'm afraid that if the site become too popular they will be teased by copyright, and ruin the whole site (for my personal usage).
- schoudha 18y agoDid they really get 21 million users in May! That's crazy - it's competitive with Digg. Compete shows them in the low millions though...
- ericb 18y agoHmm... I tried to look at some of the popular documents, but they come up empty (gray background only). Can anyone else confirm they see the same thing?
- ivankirigin 18y agoI noted the same thing on FireFox 3, but camino worked just fine.
- ed 18y agoHey Ivan and Eric, Does the document re-appear when you change the zoom level? If so, this is a known issue and a fix should be deployed soon. In any case please feel free to email me if you ever discover a bug we may not be be aware of (ed at scribd.com). Thanks, guys!
- ivankirigin 18y agoThanks. Works now in FF3 - so I can't really be of much help.
- jasonbentley 18y agoIt could be your Flash player. Make sure you have the latest update.
- bayareaguy 18y agoHas anyone done a good comparison of Scribd vs PDF taking into account things like latency and browsing over a slow connection? I never even think about the time it takes to download a PDF on my DSL line but I can imagine that Scribd might be better at letting you see just the first page of a document over a bad connection.