Gadgets & Tech – We have just completed our planned changes to Netscape.com. As we originally reported, a new portal has been launched on Netscape.com, and the social news site previously located there has been moved to propeller.com.
Will be interesting to see what they mean by "we are not happy to simply stand pat with our existing features. In the near future, we will be able to share information about our new social news platform"
What's staying, what's going, what's new etc, etc.
Should be fun. good to see so much of the community participating here already.
Just hijack to home page, the most obvious log in doesn't work, no instructions to the switch over (though I havn't checked E-mail, but with AOL I doubt it
Yup, AOL is still my most hated internet service, and they just screwed up one of the better, if not best service.
Bad enough that they already played with the netscape browser, making me seriously thinking about changing to Modzilla / firefox
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No question it was probably a smart decision for Netscape business. While it's still too early to say if this is an upgrade or downgrade for all the submitting parties here, the fact that propeller.com is a week old site concerns from the ranking perspective...
well, it has zero google rank and has indexed traffic by Alexa just from a week ago, I guess that's what I meant
Where did you find the info?
engineer,
Here is the complete info:
Domain Name: propeller.com
Registrant:
AOL LLC
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, VA 20166
US
Updated Date: 17-Mar-2007
Creation Date: 15-Mar-1995
Expiration Date: 15-Mar-2008
Registrar...............: AOL LLC
Administrative Contact:
AOL Domain Administration
AOL LLC
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, VA 20166
US
Tel. 1.7032654670
Email: domains@aol.net
Technical Contact:
AOL Domain Administration
AOL LLC
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, VA 20166
US
Tel. 1.7032654670
Email: domains@aol.net
Domain servers:
dns-03.ns.aol.com
64.12.51.138
dns-04.ns.aol.com
205.188.157.238
You can get this information and any other domain name's information at:
http://www.completewhois.com/
Good Luck!
Interesting info
patgulipat,
You don't care about the rank, but I do!
It is simple economics.
The more the traffic to your site, the more advertising dollars, and therefore an assured existence!
It is a tough world, and for us to exist as a vibrant, productive community, we must be able to pull more traffic to Propeller.
That in itself puts an onus upon in this community to strive for the highest quality in our posts and comments. Content is really the King! The better the content, the more the visitors who are interested in reading what we have to say.
James, I think all signs are good so far. I am sure if all of us put our shoulders to this wheel, we can make the wagon move! We are in this together, and I am going to do my very best to make my posts and comments intelligent, balanced, and provocative in the best sense of the word, like I have always tried to do.
Let me wish smooth sailing for all of us, and let us get more visitors!
Peace and Blessings!
I'd like to see this site come up first when I log on.
Can I change the settings?
good point... i was wondering the same.
A little help here!
Just set propeller.com as your homepage in Options / Main in Firefox or Internet Options in IE.
thanks zaphod. i have another homepage i use. I enjoyed going to netscape. now it's a 2 step process, right?
(goto netscape and clik on the propellor)
if there is something else I'm missing...
Propeller is GREAT- its moving fast
Maybe the Spammers will lose interest as the casual surfing traffic is not redirected from the netscape portal so the gains in revenue from made for adsense blogs will be down.
It does mean that traffic will be down for a while but this should keep things running smoothly for us dedicated PROPELLER HEADS.
I am surprised that there is no announcement or redirect script on the new portal though (unless I have missed it!)
The site looks pretty much the same.
I'm not seeing the upside.
I use both Netscape 8 and 9 on my machine
Yeah! & how about adding a "Retract" button for the pos/neg votes? Just in case someone makes a boo-boo?
Good idea!
hey Bronx Babe.
maybe you could make this an official suggestion. isn't there a support link somewhere?
BB,
I am all for it!
The duplicate reporting mechanism is indeed working. We just get a lot of reports and have to go through each one.
Qualifies as extremely cranky at any rate.
People can vote and sink stories according to whatever criteria they like.
Yeah if you ever suspect a user is a sock puppet, get in touch with an anchor or a scout about it.
Neo,
We can say "se la vie" and shrug our shoulders, or find these mutts that are spreading their doodoo on our lawns, and teach them a lesson or two!
Correction:
I mis-spelled!
It should read "c'est la vie"
Pardon my French ! Really!