Taking the New Propeller For a Spin »
Posted by: tdrapeau 3 months ago102 Comments Report this Story
For the last few months, the Propeller team has been hard at work on a major upgrade to our social news experience. As we near our community's two-year anniversary, I am pleased to announce that this work will soon be complete. We have a lot of exciting news to share!
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earthlingerer3 months ago
Cripes... "...a mascot we call the Propeller Professor. With his fashionable beanie and goatee..."
Now we have Maynard G Krebs dropping bennies helping us on the way to propeller cool.
When did this place become "propeller" again?
And what was it before?
I'll second the "cautiously optimistic".
Hopefully, it will mean an end to the crap spammers and the sock puppets. Otherwise, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
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PsychoHosebeast3 months ago
"Hopefully, it will mean an end to the crap spammers and the sock puppets. Otherwise, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"."
Same here, but I think that it was one of their major concerns, so there should definitely be an effect on them. Matter of fact, I'd imagine there's going to be some upset sock puppeteers, spammers and blind voters whose whining will inundate the boards for a while with brilliant comments like "Propeller sucks." Just remember who it is that you hear bitch the most, because they're the ones who got thier finger slammed in the car door.
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reviewer3 months ago
I am always cautious of "New" on the Net but this sounds fab-U-lous. The Digg mentality is dying...and I am sure many like me will spend more time here with faster page loading. Cheers to the tech team!
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TweekerchickQC3 months ago
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BronxBomber3 months ago
Tweeky babe:"awesomenessity" is there such a word??? I guess so if TweekerChickQC said it.
I too can hardly wait! 2 thumbs up to the staff for making this a very real possibility! Thanx!
:oD
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mr-dallas3 months ago
I'm still wondering why AOL changed the name from Netscape to Propeller. The Netscape Band name was well known and I would tell folks to come to Netscape and join this new social news site they have. But once the name changed, folks was like "What's Propeller?" etc. etc. I was turned off myself for a while, but I'm looking forward to the new upgrades Propeller (aka Netscape) will have.
Mr. Dallas
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tehranchik3 months ago
fta:
"We are very excited to launch this new experience."
We are very excited for you to launch this experience!
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gamahuche3 months ago
Ah well, this time it was the single one that vanished..
RIP..
Speaking of which - are virtual public executions of spammers and sock-puppets on the new bill-of-fare??
And, according to defined criteria, of our nemeses??
If so I think I could start learning to knit and play Mme Defarge.
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Spadecaller3 months ago
(NEW?) I've been learning how to think ahead when I post comments. JUst post "New" and then when it registers twice edit the second post to "Improved."
Yes ind, I too forsee the nostalgia for the days when a burning desire often becomes a wild and raging fire.
And, when an impetuous and cras retort gets posted twice or even three times. Will the character building through utter humiliation be lost forever?
Ha! No worries, huh?
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gamahuche3 months ago
Looking forward to test-driving this new baby!
Hope that you'll also be looking for lots of feedback and that propeller will be a continually evolving medium..
For example, how about some international development, taking into account of - and benefitting from - the simple fact that the www is precisely that and that there's a whole planet out there that's already spinning too.
And when is D-DAY??!!
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earthlingerer3 months ago
Yeah, me too.
I want to rive it into a telephone pole at 225 mph, and get out laughing at the mess I've made.
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Bkumm3 months ago
I told everyone, "Just relax". Now, I'm really excited to see how cool the new Propeller turns out to be.
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aceofspades13 months ago
I tried to post a comment, but after 5 minutes it has seemed to disappear - short term memory loss is a definite detriment to using this site as of now
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PresidentBuckheadd3 months ago
Thats a neat idea.. Propeller groups is going to be interesting..
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obiefrommuskogee3 months ago
Sounds like "new and improved" could be more intrusive. I'm not interested in linking to AOL-- too intrusive.
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y_soitenly3 months ago
I hope the new browser doesn't have an issue with memory drain, like the previous versions had.
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