Comments on: Technorati assaults design (again)

By: buena

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By: Darren Cornwell

Darren Cornwell — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:29:52 +0000

I’d have to agree with your interpretation of the ‘new’ technorati. These things are always better when left well alone to carry on in the fashion they were brought in to the web. That’s the trouble with sites today, no more organic information, everyone has their price and everyone has the ability to prioritise their content based on informational value (Read That as: Money) - I love reading the little blogs, the niche markets, that where the ‘real’ info lives.

As for the design, it’s hideous, a complete and utter teardown of a site that once held great respect and value amongst the community. Bet hey - it’s shiny, just what we need, more shiny.

By: Andrew Benton

Andrew Benton — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:01:18 +0000

I agree Kyle, the early 1990’s called, and they want their marquees back. And it seems technorati went gangster on us, “Whats popping now”. Word to your mother.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:08:57 +0000

@Joel - Pretty sure he was talking about a few years back when Google didn’t have the infrastructure they do now, and getting new content indexed would take a long time. Now Google has so many spiders running around grabbing content, and server farms crunching search algorithms, it doesn’t take long at all.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:54:31 +0000

In an age when Google might take up to a month to index your content

Just wondering if that's your experience? Most of my stuff takes at most a couple of days to filter in to the google megaplex, and my blog isn't exactly wildly read (unfortunately).

Also, is Tantek still at Technorati?

(on another point, can we tab index to the "Post Comment" submit input? o=))

By: Tarellel

Tarellel — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:02:25 +0000

It seems to me Technorati has completely run out of innovative ideas. And now their only chance to keep up with possible competitors is to create distasteful redesigns and appear to have some sort of internal activity. What a loss to the blogging community…

By: Marc Nobel

Marc Nobel — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:06:36 +0000

Technorati has lagged the past three years, and now it has become even more unnecessary! I really think they should close the site down. There are hundreds of sites doing the exact same thing, more efficiently.

By: David Rodger

David Rodger — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:38:40 +0000

It makes Safari 2.0.4 crash. WTF!

By: Matt Wilcox

Matt Wilcox — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:37:48 +0000

I’ve never really dabbled in Technorati, but I am at least familiar with it - and you’re right, this re-design is awful.

It smells a lot like some programmer had an idea, made the page, and some poor designer had to ’skin’ it. Because no designer on earth would come up with a page that behaves and looks like that without being forced into it. Content that moves while you’re trying to read it? Seriously?

By: Chris Harrison

Chris Harrison — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:41:04 +0000

WTF, indeed. It’s certainly not as bad what happened to the Flock website, but still. It’s definitely a step back.