Well, today was the last straw. I unsubscribed from the Salon main page. It is totally impossible to read anything on Salon, or to even try and contact them! Every time I go there, my browser crashes and I have to restart my computer. Don't they understand about advertising, and how it slows down things? What idiots constructed this website? Well they lost one reader, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Hopefully they won't decide to improve Open Salon. I would hate to have to give it up!
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HOLY KRIPES!
It looks like someone's high school project after a few joints. A postmodern nightmare if I have ever seen one. Alas.
It's all those damned video adverts that overwhelm my browser. The page never finishes downloading, because of the damned ads that keep popping up constantly. Don't these people know what malware is?
Where my problem arises are the automatically generated video advertisements. As soon as the page starts to load, I end up with at least five of these going on simultaneously. They in turn bog down my computer memory and crash the browser.
I have to disagree with "another steve s" though. It does NOT look like a high school student web page designed by some stoned kid. A stoned 16 year old would do a much cooler color presentation. That's way too monotone overall for someone stoned.
Didn't crash for me or cause undue overload. Still, I don't go to Big Salon very often. There are so many interesting voices here on Open Salon.
Your concerns though are why I build web sites the way I do, with zero 'bells and whistles' - there are still folks in this world with dinosaur systems and dial up modems, I don't think it's fair to create an internet that not everyone can access just because it's 'new high tech and looks cool' :-/. But then that's just me ;).
Rated for where no man has gone - and probably never will.
R♥
Think about how many people simply assume that their computer is frozen for good and cold boot it so the next time they click on Solon its frozen again – Time to go buy a new computer I guess (gasp).
The Verizon web site does the same thing and I have complained to them as well with no response.
It’s simply not acceptable, for ANY reason, that a web site will bring the entire Windows 7 OS to a grinding halt.
And Salon still locks up my Windows 7 computer. It actually manages to stop the clock on the computer. Something that I thought was impossible.
Still the first time I call Salon it locks up for 15 seconds then its OK.
Still not acceptable for a web site to do that.
Still crap...