Propeller Lives! »
Posted By JamesMarcus 1 year ago in Science & TechnologyWe 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.
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sugarcoated1 year ago
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...
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sugarcoated1 year ago
well, it has zero google rank and has indexed traffic by Alexa just from a week ago, I guess that's what I meant
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Searchbeam1 year ago
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!
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Coneywoney1 year ago
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!)
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ecotourusa1 year ago
hey Bronx Babe.
maybe you could make this an official suggestion. isn't there a support link somewhere?
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Neophile1 year ago
The duplicate reporting mechanism is indeed working. We just get a lot of reports and have to go through each one.
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Silverghost1 year ago
Maybe I'm too infrequently involved, but I didn't have a clue & thought I was being scammed. Took me awhile to trust this change as valid. Where was the notice? -Rev. S
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populist1 year ago
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.
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coreyspring1 year ago
Yeah, sorry about that. We were having trouble with the login system earlier getting it to *keep* you logged in - but our tech guys have got those issues fixed now.
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TheAttacks1 year ago
Glad to see people coming to the new domain already! Propeller FTW! :D
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Mr-opinion1 year ago
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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white-pawn1 year ago
The site looks pretty much the same. I'm not sure I understand why the cahnges were made at all. Aside from spooking me out with the AOL homepage and making it harder to log in, I'm not seeing the upside.
Unless, and this is probably just rediculous, but maybe the site was doing too well. Maybe AOL wanted to make our posts a little more obscure and harder for people to find. I noticed that they banned posting sites from Alex Jones, so I'm just not sure what this is supposed to accomplish.
If something is doing well, leave it alone. If you are going to change something, change it.
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AndygM1 year ago
I like the new name and the favicon. Here's to propelling news stories around the web!!!!!
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lovemylibs1 year ago
I would recommend some instructions on how to log in for the first time. Other than that, I love it. I haven't had to clear a cache or refresh a page yet today.
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STONERS1 year ago
Propeller is GREAT- its moving fast-Netscape got to the point to where I hated to log in because it was loading the pages so slow. Lets hope this new site doesnt start-so far its great-no problems yet ;] oh lets hope we get our "Delete All" feature for our message box-both incoming and sent-then everything would be AWESOME... Thanks everyone for getting it up and going wiothout problems....
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queenb7271 year ago
I had a little trouble logging in at first but all is good now. It looks the same so I'm happy. Now if only buttons worked the first time I clicked them...
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Searchbeam1 year ago
Now our next job:
Stopping barnacles from growing on our Propeller!
Any time we see a spammer or sock puppet, we should use "CODE B" to alert other posters and the Anchors (I hope they use another word than Anchor. It has a connotation of stopping this ship, in essence fighting the Propeller!)
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hsaleem1 year ago
I have had the same problem logging in but everything seems to have been fixed now. Love it ;)
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GrainOfSand1 year ago
I had a trouble signing in a while ago. Thanks for this submission JamesMarcus. Everything seems to be working, so far. I don't mind the change at all, it's just the same thing, but in a different place. We'll get used to it.
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not2needy1 year ago
If i figured it out, anyone can, LOL! Wasn't too hard though.
I just made propell my homepage, why go through the rest of the mess to get to the blogs anyway? Then.... when i want to go to NS.com, it's easy enough!
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GrainOfSand1 year ago
At least I wasn't the only one who was having that trouble. It was driving me nuts! But it finally "kicked in" and have been here ever since.
I see no problem, it's just in a different place, not as prominent, but folks already know we're here....
The name is kind of odd though....propeller?
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sumptuousdigs1 year ago
What's in a name?...Hmm. We are! It's ours to make or break.
The propeller in the name is not aeronautically, but rather nautically shaped, as a ship's prop. The prop on a ship is called a screw. Now we can't be chatting it up on a social network called screw, so propeller is a fine name. I guess that's what's in a name.
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brettodactyl1 year ago
Good work guys; the changeover was really smooth. By the way, the new site still integrates perfectly with Navigator 9, and the icon even changed in my news menu from the Netscape logo to the orange propeller.
Also, I like how on netscape.com, the recommended stories from Propeller are listed in the box on the side. I'll probably still keep netscape.com as my homepage to get my news, so I'm glad that there is such tight integration between sites. I was kind of worried that Propeller's connection to Netscape was going to just dissolve, but I was wrong. I look forward to testing the new version of the site you say you're working on too.
One more thing, the speed is so much better since you've changed domains. Don't know if it's because there are less people here right now or because you've worked out some of the bugs, but I'm very pleased right now.
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TimALoftis1 year ago
Very true, brettodactyl. The Netscape domain is a excellent place to get your mainstream news from AP, CNN and others. Then click on propeller to check out all the buzz in social news.
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Dicax_Maximus1 year ago
NS Techy folks, would you PLEASE sort out the "deletion of messages" function..... New site's OK, BUT, you've carried this bugbear over with you.... I have neither the patience nor the time to wait a couple of minutes to delete one message (assuming it actually does delete, that is).....
Here's hoping,
DM
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alxnsc1 year ago
Some criteria...
Consier comments.
Quantity. The number of comments posted.
Less of them is you've gone useless.
More of them is you've gone needed.
Same - well, be optimistic. it's better same than worse.
But it is just quantity.
Quality is crucial too. Bravery... Less bravery is people don't trust you.
Then straightforwardness comes. Less of it - don't believe them.
I wish you a happy new start.
Make people know they can be brave and straightforward and
your deed is the right one.
Do well. Stay high.
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