I have read this site since it began and only posted once in a while after signing in but have been an anonymous coward at times. The appeal of this site to me has been many and varied but mostly the idea that it is 'lean and clean' with low frills and a way to follow debate or comment in an easy enough way to make it worth while to scroll down a page to read many comments.
I was an original paid subscriber to motorcycle.com web site after it went from free to pay a decade or so ago. It was sold a couple of years later and went to shit soon thereafter with a totally changed online web experience plus massive advertising and I have not been back there for many years. More recently I was using UPI mobile news channel and they redesigned their site to include a lot of pictures on the home page and a lot of pop up crap which ruined what had been a clean quick site. See a pattern here? How can you not expect Dice to screw this up? I posted as an ac to say to Dice to try to monetize the site and see how fast people leave. I got a 0 rating for that but felt it to be accurate just the same. They bought what they thought was a commodity, not truly a community. They are acting in that fashion to update it so that it is no longer lean and clean and quick to scan for news topics or comments. But, hey, it will look like all the other hip sites like facebook et al..
If they really ignore all of the community and go on directly as they seem to be doing then open software is also the model to follow here. Arrange a server service and migrate en masse to a new server without Dice attached. Ask for contributions and become like Wikipedia, not like Dice controlled/. Just a thought.
cheers..
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I have read this site since it began and only posted once in a while after signing in but have been an anonymous coward at times. The appeal of this site to me has been many and varied but mostly the idea that it is 'lean and clean' with low frills and a way to follow debate or comment in an easy enough way to make it worth while to scroll down a page to read many comments. I was an original paid subscriber to motorcycle.com web site after it went from free to pay a decade or so ago. It was sold a couple of years later and went to shit soon thereafter with a totally changed online web experience plus massive advertising and I have not been back there for many years. More recently I was using UPI mobile news channel and they redesigned their site to include a lot of pictures on the home page and a lot of pop up crap which ruined what had been a clean quick site. See a pattern here? How can you not expect Dice to screw this up? I posted as an ac to say to Dice to try to monetize the site and see how fast people leave. I got a 0 rating for that but felt it to be accurate just the same. They bought what they thought was a commodity, not truly a community. They are acting in that fashion to update it so that it is no longer lean and clean and quick to scan for news topics or comments. But, hey, it will look like all the other hip sites like facebook et al.. If they really ignore all of the community and go on directly as they seem to be doing then open software is also the model to follow here. Arrange a server service and migrate en masse to a new server without Dice attached. Ask for contributions and become like Wikipedia, not like Dice controlled /. Just a thought.
cheers..