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Happy Re/new Year

23 points by krogsgard 13y ago

minimaxir 13y ago
Considering how high The Verge set the bar for blog launches, this is underwhelming for a blog launch in 2014. Both the design and functionality are minor improvements from a basic Wordpress theme. (of course, content is king, so that might not be relevant in the long run) Their LiveFyre SSO implementation has significant issues. (Remember your password, because you are not reseting it. Also, profile pictures flat-out don't show.) Worst of all, there's a significant bug with their custom font on Chrome (both PC and Mac): the fonts load after the page loads, causing a brief adjustment every time you open a page that's very annoying.
- Flowsion 13y ago
  Is there something that I could read about how The Verge launched and why it was so successful?
  - krogsgard 13y ago
    This is a pretty good rundown on how The Verge came to be: http://www.businessinsider.com/vox-2012-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/vox-2012-1 4m uniques and 20m visitors in the first month is a heck of a splash.
    - FlyingCocoon 13y ago
      Thanks for sharing this historical chronicle
axefrog 13y ago
I find the focus on the word "code" (Re/code, The Code Conference) weird considering the fairly distinct meaning of the word "code" in the software industry. Their blog and conference is not about code or coding, but about tech in general. It would have been just as valid to use the word "robots" and then also blog about software, genetics and so forth. Weird.
- samirahmed 13y ago
  I agree, I was hoping there would some high level insight into implementation, rather than the generic "tech news". Something like highscalability etc...
  - petercooper 13y ago
    And they also have a $6500 "Code conference" which doesn't seem to be much about coding either: http://recode.net/events/the-code-conference/ http://recode.net/events/the-code-conference/
hnha 13y ago
Seeing how they deleted all their previous content (allthingsd) off the internet without a warning, I will make sure to never link to this website.
- PeteMall 13y ago
  All of the content is still there (ex: http://allthingsd.com/20131231/you-say-goodbye-and-we-say-hello/ http://allthingsd.com/20131231/you-say-goodbye-and-we-say-he...). WSJ controls the domain and the brand. They chose to redirect the homepage to WSJ.D
n1ghtmare_ 13y ago
I know this is very subjective, but DAMN this is one ugly website. I got excited at first because I thought it's about code (which it isn't) ...
mproud 13y ago
U G L Y

23 points by krogsgard 13y ago

Considering how high The Verge set the bar for blog launches, this is underwhelming for a blog launch in 2014. Both the design and functionality are minor improvements from a basic Wordpress theme. (of course, content is king, so that might not be relevant in the long run) Their LiveFyre SSO implementation has significant issues. (Remember your password, because you are not reseting it. Also, profile pictures flat-out don't show.) Worst of all, there's a significant bug with their custom font on Chrome (both PC and Mac): the fonts load after the page loads, causing a brief adjustment every time you open a page that's very annoying.

Flowsion 13y ago
Is there something that I could read about how The Verge launched and why it was so successful?
- krogsgard 13y ago
  This is a pretty good rundown on how The Verge came to be: http://www.businessinsider.com/vox-2012-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/vox-2012-1 4m uniques and 20m visitors in the first month is a heck of a splash.
  - FlyingCocoon 13y ago
    Thanks for sharing this historical chronicle

axefrog 13y ago

I find the focus on the word "code" (Re/code, The Code Conference) weird considering the fairly distinct meaning of the word "code" in the software industry. Their blog and conference is not about code or coding, but about tech in general. It would have been just as valid to use the word "robots" and then also blog about software, genetics and so forth. Weird.

samirahmed 13y ago
I agree, I was hoping there would some high level insight into implementation, rather than the generic "tech news". Something like highscalability etc...
- petercooper 13y ago
  And they also have a $6500 "Code conference" which doesn't seem to be much about coding either: http://recode.net/events/the-code-conference/ http://recode.net/events/the-code-conference/

hnha 13y ago

Seeing how they deleted all their previous content (allthingsd) off the internet without a warning, I will make sure to never link to this website.

PeteMall 13y ago
All of the content is still there (ex: http://allthingsd.com/20131231/you-say-goodbye-and-we-say-hello/ http://allthingsd.com/20131231/you-say-goodbye-and-we-say-he...). WSJ controls the domain and the brand. They chose to redirect the homepage to WSJ.D

n1ghtmare_ 13y ago

I know this is very subjective, but DAMN this is one ugly website. I got excited at first because I thought it's about code (which it isn't) ...

mproud 13y ago

U G L Y