Posted by
Townhall Techie on Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:23:55 AM
My favorite comment about the site so far:
webviking writes: Wednesday, July, 05, 2006 5:44 PM
Botched Overhaul........................
God, you guys have screwed up this site let me count the ways. Let's start out with this handy comment form, the subject line cuts you off at 40 characters! It's an 80 plus character box and you can only type in 40. There are dead links all over the place, I fumbled around for 20 minutes trying to get to John Stossel's wonderful column called "A Convenient Lie" before I gave up and went to read it on jewishworldreview.com instead. And then the site is too damn slow. I have a high speed cable connection and everytime I go to a new page, I'm cronfronted with nothing but solid blue for several seconds and then the page starts to load. I don't know how anyone on dial up could possibly use this site.
I like some of the things you are trying to do, but it was obviously way more than your high school level IT guys could handle. You need to fire those clowns and get someone that knows what they are doing in to fix this mess.
Until then, I'll go back to jewishworldreview.com. They don't have quite as good a selection of columnists as you guys do, but at least their site is simple, quick and it works, which are three things I can't say about Townhall.com anymore.
John
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All I can say is that webviking must not realize what goes in to launching a site of this magnitude. As far as calling us "high school level IT guys", thats fine, but he certainly didn't provide any credentials of his own. One of the guys on my team has been programming for 30+ years. I've been in IT for 12 years (and yes, corporate IT since I was 13 for those of you who just read the post below about me turning 25 today) and began using .NET as a beta tester for 1.0.
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The fact is, this site is
huge. I'll be the first to admit it has problems, but for what it is, we're very proud.