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Fan Life => The Endzone Dive => Topic started by: Ghost of Stan Parrish on May 06, 2009, 09:26:52 AM
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Rhetorical question, of course it is! Every single page takes 30-40 seconds to load... the pictures on the website are about 3K in data and are blown up to the point where you see each pixel... the site has pop-up adds that take over the page that you can't avoid. As much as I want to read their stories, it's almost too painful to use the website.
How can a supposedly major metropolitan newspaper have a website that is so damn pathetic? It's like they're trying to make it unusable. Anyone else have "issues" with that website? :yuck:
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How can a supposedly major metropolitan newspaper
Well, just about every newspaper in the country is getting ready to go under so they are prolly grasping at straws at this point. It's not like they can afford an army of tech people to make it better.
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Rhetorical question, of course it is! Every single page takes 30-40 seconds to load... the pictures on the website are about 3K in data and are blown up to the point where you see each pixel... the site has pop-up adds that take over the page that you can't avoid. As much as I want to read their stories, it's almost too painful to use the website.
How can a supposedly major metropolitan newspaper have a website that is so damn pathetic? It's like they're trying to make it unusable. Anyone else have "issues" with that website? :yuck:
how much do you pay to access their website and its information?
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Rhetorical question, of course it is! Every single page takes 30-40 seconds to load... the pictures on the website are about 3K in data and are blown up to the point where you see each pixel... the site has pop-up adds that take over the page that you can't avoid. As much as I want to read their stories, it's almost too painful to use the website.
How can a supposedly major metropolitan newspaper have a website that is so damn pathetic? It's like they're trying to make it unusable. Anyone else have "issues" with that website? :yuck:
how much do you pay to access their website and its information?
Exactly. The quickest way to make it better is to buy a subscription to the newspaper.
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Rhetorical question, of course it is! Every single page takes 30-40 seconds to load... the pictures on the website are about 3K in data and are blown up to the point where you see each pixel... the site has pop-up adds that take over the page that you can't avoid. As much as I want to read their stories, it's almost too painful to use the website.
How can a supposedly major metropolitan newspaper have a website that is so damn pathetic? It's like they're trying to make it unusable. Anyone else have "issues" with that website? :yuck:
how much do you pay to access their website and its information?
Point taken, but somehow the Capitol Journal (and most every other newspaper) manages to have a website that runs more smoothly, and I pay the same for them. Without getting into the value to me from the KCStar per money spent (infinite), in comparison to other websites theirs is downright pathetic.
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Exactly. The quickest way to make it better is to buy a subscription to the newspaper.
I live a few hundred miles away, so I'm doing that.
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Exactly. The quickest way to make it better is to buy a subscription to the newspaper.
I live a few hundred miles away, so I'm doing that.
I thought you lived in NYC :confused:
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Exactly. The quickest way to make it better is to buy a subscription to the newspaper.
I live a few hundred miles away, so I'm doing that.
I thought you lived in NYC :confused:
Yes. I meant to type "so I'm NOT doing that (subscribing)".
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Exactly. The quickest way to make it better is to buy a subscription to the newspaper.
I live a few hundred miles away, so I'm doing that.
I thought you lived in NYC :confused:
Yes. I meant to type "so I'm NOT doing that (subscribing)".
I live in Brooklyn <- also don't subscribe, but used to so I feel a little better?
But then again I used to pay for CD's but now I mostly just download those illegally. So I guess I'm just a bastard.
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Rhetorical question, of course it is! Every single page takes 30-40 seconds to load... the pictures on the website are about 3K in data and are blown up to the point where you see each pixel... the site has pop-up adds that take over the page that you can't avoid. As much as I want to read their stories, it's almost too painful to use the website.
How can a supposedly major metropolitan newspaper have a website that is so damn pathetic? It's like they're trying to make it unusable. Anyone else have "issues" with that website? :yuck:
how much do you pay to access their website and its information?
Point taken, but somehow the Capitol Journal (and most every other newspaper) manages to have a website that runs more smoothly, and I pay the same for them. Without getting into the value to me from the KCStar per money spent (infinite), in comparison to other websites theirs is downright pathetic.
i have no idea what the economics of running a newspaper are but my guess is that the bigger newspapers have lower profit margins.
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I live in Brooklyn
Lived all over Brooklyn myself: Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Williamsburg, Greenpoint. Also, LIC right on the border.
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i have no idea what the economics of running a newspaper are but my guess is that the bigger newspapers have lower profit margins.
Could be. I love the newspaper biz: I wrote a bit for the Mercury when I was at MHS, and thought about majoring in journalism (thank god I didn't). So, I guess I shouldn't be picking on the Star when papers are failing all over the place. Sorry, Star! :shy: (But, hey, the website does suck.)
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I live in Brooklyn
Lived all over Brooklyn myself: Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Williamsburg, Greenpoint. Also, LIC right on the border.
Nice. I've relocated to Williamsburg a couple of months ago - South 4th and Bedford. It's a good spot. Right by the bridge - I bike it every morning to work. How long did you live here?
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My K-State Webmail can take up to 5 minutes to log in. Makes me late to class sometimes :curse: :curse: :curse:
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Nice. I've relocated to Williamsburg a couple of months ago - South 4th and Bedford. It's a good spot. Right by the bridge - I bike it every morning to work. How long did you live here?
Lived in Williamsburg for two years from 2000 to 2002. Diner was still a new place when I arrived, and it was about the only place I ever went to on your south side (other than Lugers once). The neighborhood has obviously changed a lot since then.
Once, about three years ago, I was meeting a girl at a bar in your hood called Southside on a Friday evening down under the bridge. While I was walking down the street, I was asked by one of the Hassidm to come up to his family's apartment to turn some lights on. (Shabbos.) I agreed, and was rewarded with some nice homemade brownies and clementines. That same night I met the bass player for Evanescence at that bar, and some of my friends (not me) went out with the full band the next night after their show for the quasi-rock star treatment. It's an interesting hood you live in.