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elamb
June 15, 2006, 1:47 a.m.
How very Microsoft of you? Isn't this the same thing Microsoft did to the Navigator. "fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."
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elamb
June 15, 2006, 2:05 a.m.
Nice. All it needs now is more ADs.
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digg pwnes netscape
June 15, 2006, 2:11 a.m.
wow what a terrible terrible knock off of digg
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dugg
June 15, 2006, 2:19 a.m.
shame
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dugg
June 15, 2006, 2:20 a.m.
why did the number of votes drop? A bug, editor's call, or am I seeing things?
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Ryan
June 15, 2006, 2:22 a.m.
It is acting a little buggy right now. I'm seeing the votes jump all over the place. We did pull the other digg.com story just so there weren't duplicates.
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Karina
June 15, 2006, 2:29 a.m.
Votes on this post just bounced from 9 to 24, so yeah, it's a little unstable right now, but that's what "beta" is all about.
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davisable
June 15, 2006, 2:30 a.m.
Take a dozen ads, squeeze them onto every single bloody page in the site and you get Netscape. Seriously guys--cut back on the annoying ads (try using Google-like text-ads) and I might consider coming back.
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alexrudloff
June 15, 2006, 2:37 a.m.
We've been in beta for about 2.5 hours now ;) We're getting load from multiple diggs, netscpae.com, NYT, techcrunch, and god knows what else. Be patient ;)
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God
June 15, 2006, 2:41 a.m.
TIP: Putting an ad in the middle of the comments isn't going to get more people to view it; it's going to get more people to *block* it.
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JasonCalacanis
June 15, 2006, 2:43 a.m.
God: We gotta have a couple of ads on the page.... right now we have like two. I think that's just fine. We could prob. do 3 or 4
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God
June 15, 2006, 2:47 a.m.
Having ads is fine. Having ads is understandable. Having ads in the middle of the comments, however, is just plain annoying.
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JasonCalacanis
June 15, 2006, 2:53 a.m.
I don't mind the ad in the middle... you can scroll past it easily.
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dugg
June 15, 2006, 3 a.m.
you should definately move away from the ads in the middle. When I submitted my earlier comment, I thought it messed up because I didn't see it. However, it was found after scrolling through the add in the middle of the page.
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God
June 15, 2006, 3:03 a.m.
Yes, you can scroll past it. But that starts to get annoying when you have to do it whenever you load the page.
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JasonCalacanis
June 15, 2006, 3:05 a.m.
i'll think about it... maybe we will put the leaderboard back up top and move the medium rectangle out. this is a beta... thanks for the advice :-)
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netscapemarvin
June 15, 2006, 3:17 a.m.
These pages dosn't have more ads than any other typical blog ala gawker, gothamist, engadget etc. I mean if all you do is hang out at virtually adless sites it's a bit to deal with but once you leave the cave and join most of the rest of the interweb world..you just shrug it off a par for the course. If the content is good who cares how they keep the lights on?
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Matt
June 15, 2006, 3:33 a.m.
I think the ad in the middle of the comments messes up the flow of the page and the conversation. Maybe try putting them between the end of the article and the beginning of the comments, sort of like how Slashdot does it...
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digitalrao
June 15, 2006, 3:52 a.m.
OMG this makes sick... TimeWarner taking out Digg.com .. its like Microsoft killing the Netscape Navigator in 1999... TimeWarner doesn't have any heart for anyone kinda like Microsft didnt have any heart when they put Internet Explorer into Windows 98. It wouldve been better if Netscape tried to take out YouTube or MySpace... but No they had to take out Digg.com would be funny if Yahoo! or google bought digg.com then who would be laughting all the way to bank then... another man's dream is another dead man's wish.

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    Nov. 30, 2007, 1:41 p.m.
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netscapemarvin
June 15, 2006, 4:01 a.m.
before the fold, viewing the page, the comment ads are so big, they are the last thing i see... i may not even realize there are more comments. when ads compromise functionality and interface, that's not a good thing. If you do keep the comment area ad, why not make it text or style it into a blue/yellow comment area... less annoying for users, and probably more people will read them. win/win?
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Jayson
June 15, 2006, 4:12 a.m.
You guys realize that Jason became VERY rich off of his adept placement of ads in websites. I think he knows a little bit about what he's doing.
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Conrad
June 15, 2006, 5:12 a.m.
I think it's hilarious how there's a picture of Kevin Rose next to this article.
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icebin
June 15, 2006, 5:26 a.m.
use it.
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icebin
June 15, 2006, 5:27 a.m.
use it
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icebin
June 15, 2006, 5:27 a.m.
use it