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This Drudge page is 26 years old. The design has seen few changes since its debut in 1997. It remains entirely written in unscripted HTML, with a mostly monochromatic color scheme of black boldface monospaced font text on a plain white background. (Wiki)

I know what you're saying; "The point is?."

The point is to send a message to every GD web site and cable provider in the freaking world. 

Find a design you like, then fire all but a few maintenance programmers who will spend the next three years doing nothing but fixing every bug.  Every three years you can add two things for every five you junk.

I'll use FIOS as my example.  Rarely a day, and never a week, goes by that I don't find some new, irritating splash screen, DVR protocol change, or other crap that makes me say bad words, sometimes when my grand kiddies are about.  Take a lesson from Drudge!  He is now the most visited news website in the world.  When he began, he made his bones by, somehow, being able to tap into the Newsweek (Wa Post) computer and find this embargoed story.  From that point on Bill Clinton was toast.  And there were others.  Today, however, most of Drudge content are leaks by other news blogs and agencies. etc. But his clout continues to grow.  Why? Because we know exactly what every link does. We know how to find old, archived stories, and wear comfortable, old, slippers the whole while.

 If  the Drudge Report fell into the hands of, say, FIOS  programmers; it would start asking for passwords, have embedded videos playing, and have more bling than Kim Kardashian's labia.




PS.  Off hand I can think of two other high volume sites that have leaned that lesson; Free Republic, and Bad Blue.


13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Verizon is absolutely the worst big company website I have ever had the ulcers to look at. I curse them, I damn them, I rhetorically strangle them after I rack them, for links that go in circles, for more ad space than work space, for unexplained crashes, for placing the selling of wireless shit over all other services we buy, (we have the whole bundle)for selling their email service to AOL, making me go to worthless, airhead, ad-laden AOL to get my email, for customer service reps who don't know squat about the system and speak like valley girls in a dramatic machine gun whisper, for dropping me after I click the "keep me logged in" box, for forgetting me after I click the "remember me" box, for making me log in for or five times before I get to the screen i need, for selling me a FIOS interface box with a weak power supply that's insufficient to keep the backup battery charged; for designing the fucking box circuitry such that the system won't run without a fully charged battery....aarrrrggghhhh.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick

Rodger the Real King of France said...

So, Dick, other than that how do you rate them?

Anonymous said...

Wait. Kim Kardashian has bling on her vajayja?

jd

Anonymous said...

When you get tired of Verizon, LTCGEN Tailgunner, switch over to At&T bundled with Direct TV for a while. I've never had all that crap from Verizon, but on a scale of one to ten, AT&T sucks.

Sir H the Comet

Anonymous said...

So, Dick, other than that how do you rate them?
Don't make me tell you how they took my 2001 BMW car phone, a wonderful, clear, simple phone with a great display and sound, an integrated part of the voice recognition driven radio/navigation/telephone system, and disabled it forever when I asked for a phone for my wife.
Ratbastard *&*(^%$^&@Ps.

Sir H the Comet - Is "sucks" just a bit better than or worse than ten being lowest?
I looked into Direct TV, but my biggest, best tree is in the way of the feed.
Tree wins, easily, even though both Verizon and Comcast suck (way lower than 10)
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gadfly said...

And that other website, "Curmudgeonly Boned Jello" or whatever might well have stayed with the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" philosophy - if Blogger didn't do so much busting things up over time.

By the way, Linda Sue O'Grady deserves our thanks for making comments and full articles come together in a neat way, while living under Google rules.

Dan said...

I know I'm complaining about the free ice cream, but I'd sure appreciate it if the comments popped up in a box like on Sondra K's site.

gadfly said...

Dan: As LindaSOG pointed out before, secure blogger sites (https) don't allow what Sondra K is doing on her older http site. As Rodger has discovered when he got clobbered last winter, get in line or go out of business.

Linda Sue O'Grady said...

Thanks gadfly... we do what we can with what we have.

I liked the comments in the little box as well, Dan.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

This is why Linda makes the big $$

Linda Sue O'Grady said...

muah... If only I could remember where I put those big $$

MAX Redline said...

Hmm. I use https everywhere - from EFF. https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/atlas/

It works.

Linda Sue O'Grady said...

HTTPS does work, but... not always with the older code.

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