After several modifications, feature tweaks, and revisions, please feel free to beta test our revision of OSNews.com version 4. Recently introduced to the site? Amongst many other things: Themes! Read on for a more complete changelog!
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Member since:2005-08-18
"Actually, it is: many of your user will vote with your feet if you don't listen to them."
No, Adam is right. It's not a democracy. He can do whatever the hell he want with the design and he has no obligation to even ask anyone for permission (other than the owners). Sure, that's rude, not very smart and would probably alienate most readers but that's his right.
Member since:2005-07-24
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As far as I can see, the main thing keeping readers at OSNews is the fact that it has no real competition. The staff can be rude to their readers and treat them badly because the readers have no place else to go.
Or is there another site similar to OSNews of which I am unaware?
There are plenty of Linux oriented news sites out there. But I migrated to OSNews because I enjoy the diversity of viewpoints among the readership. On a Linux oriented site, you can get away with saying all sorts of crap and everyone just nods and agrees.
But here, if I say "Linux is the best OS that the world has ever seen!" I can count upon getting some very honest feedback from people who might... err... disagree strongly with that statement.
Mainstream sites tend to be quite Windows-centric, and I don't care for being in that position: A minority member. I get enough of that in "real life".
At OSNews, I feel that we, the readership, do a pretty good job of treating each other as equals... even though we may disagree on particulars.
I would love to find another site that had all that, but where the proprietors weren't so arrogant, and didn't act like they were so burned out with running it.
And that is really what I am hearing in their virtual voices these days.
Member since:2007-04-03
That's my though, give me another site with similar content in plain HTMl and I'll be happy to use it.
The "better" the place looks the worse is it's content, that general truth all around the internet with really special exceptions, that are just justification of that truth itself. And because I have never seen a good tech site, that didn't turned it's quality heavily down after similar design remake, I'm now really afraid about OSnews.
Tech sites shouldn't look like the highest stupid point of design capabilities, it should be primarily simple and in the special case of sites used to write even about systems fot 8bit computers, it should be able to show itself on them.
Yes, owners/creators have full rights to this site, they can even turn it down in this very moment. Well maybe they should do so...
I hope, that all my affraids are wrong, that new OSnews will be somehow as simple to use and (a bit more importantly) to display (memory a CPU requirements of design) on every platform. I hope, but I affraid.
Member since:2005-07-22
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2005-07-22
I am disappointed that the people who run this site feel it necessary to use language like this when replying to someone's heartfelt concerns. "I am sorry, but..." would be much more professional and infinitely more gracious.
Actually, it is: many of your user will vote with your feet if you don't listen to them.
People make negative comments about the new theme because they *care*, not because they disrespect the hard work you guys put into the site. Other people do not always express themselves well, nor are they always helpful, but *please*, accept criticism in the spirit in which it is intended.
We are guests on your site, you are guests on our screens. Perhaps we can treat each other with respect?