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Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive

From Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive
Date 2014-04-23 13:49 +0000
Organization Miskatonic U
Message-ID <slrnllfh6s.1fdd.g.kreme@amelia.local> (permalink)
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In message <lj6qio$hp$1@dont-email.me> 
  Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 2014-04-22 18:13:47 +0000, RS Wood said:

>> http://bokardo.com/archives/paying-to-get-rid-of-pagination-on-slate/
>> 
>> Interesting article about wrecking the user experience in order to
>>  sell ads.  Save me Usenet, you're my only hope!

> It has been some years since I looked at weather.com, and I checked it 
> out after looking at the article.  What a joke!  I wonder if they even 
> understand why people visit their site.  Weather Underground has also 
> remade their front page recently, and it's just terrible as well.  
> Thankfully weather.unisys.com is still very web-1.0 and there's nothing 
> there that gets in the way of the user.

I load wunderground and I see the current stats on the weather (which is
what I want), the predicted hi/lo (which is what I want) and a radar
map, which I may or may not want. Then I have a list of weather stations
and can pick the one nearest me (or not, sometimes I pick one near where
I am going) to get all the info any weather dweeb would ever want.

But most the time I check the weather it is on my iPhone or iPad and I
use the Yahoo Weather app for that, or forecast.io.

> I hope web sites that are deliberately awful start going out of 
> business.  How many gawkers does the world need anyway?

Zero.


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WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-22 18:13 +0000
  Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-22 19:12 +0000
    Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-23 20:31 +0200
  Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-22 20:38 +0000
  Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-22 15:30 -0700
    Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-23 08:40 +0000
    Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-04-23 13:49 +0000
      Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-24 20:09 +0000
    Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-24 17:36 +0000
      Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-24 16:10 -0700
  Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive "Elizabeth T. Knuth" <eknuth@csbsju.edu> - 2014-04-27 02:41 -0500

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