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Started 3 years ago by turbo ninja
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turbo ninja
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So I clicked over to NBC4i.com today to see if they had video of our Fearless Leader demonstrating his bell-ringing skillz and the whole site looks new.
Yay: Simpler navigation. Looks like there are fewer pages, which I think is a good thing. Better video player.
Boo: Apparently links to content on the old version of the site are now invalid. No video of Walker "Ringer" Evans as of 1:15 this afternoon.
Good to see them trying to improve their product while the Dinospatch struggles just to keep a seven-day publishing schedule.
(edited to add sarcasm-deflecting linkability)

Posted 3 years ago #
lifeliberty
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thanks for the link!

Posted 3 years ago #
turbo ninja
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lifeliberty wrote thanks for the link!
Is that sincere thanks, or sarcasm because I didn't take the time to actually include a link to the site?
Either way, I have revised to save people to trouble of copy/pasting or - God forbid - actually typing "nbc4i.com" into a browser.

Posted 3 years ago #
mrsosu21
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THANK GOD. I like their news and updates but their site took WAY too long to load up! Thanks for making me check!

Posted 3 years ago #
Walker
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The show I was on is Daytime Columbus. I don't think they put entire shows of it online, so I don't think my clip will be up there. I was going to ask someone to DVR it for me, but it sort of came up pretty last minute.
mrsosu21 wrote THANK GOD. I like their news and updates but their site took WAY too long to load up! Thanks for making me check!
+1
I'm glad to see NBC4i.com updated. It and 10TV's site have both been notorious for bringing my browser to a screeching halt as they load all sorts of junk very very slowly.
Bummer all of their old news links are broken though. TOP did the same thing when they updated. There are thousands to their sites all over the internet that are now broken. Not very helpful in finding what you're looking for.

Posted 3 years ago #
Rockmastermike
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Walker wrote
I'm glad to see NBC4i.com updated. It and 10TV's site have both been notorious for bringing my browser to a screeching halt as they load all sorts of junk very very slowly.
NoScript and Adblock
The only way to fly.

Posted 3 years ago #
Walker
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Rockmastermike wrote NoScript and Adblock. The only way to fly.
Or I could just not visit NBC4 or 10TV's websites. ;)

Posted 3 years ago #
Rockmastermike
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Walker wrote
Rockmastermike wrote NoScript and Adblock. The only way to fly.
Or I could just not visit NBC4 or 10TV's websites. ;)
Cutsy scripts, flashing idiot geegaws, and useless screen clutter are at epidemic levels across the entire intertrons. C.U. is remarkably free of that kind of crap, but it seems like anywhere else you go there's something trying to suck up your system resources to do something you don't really want to do.
Even some of the threads on CU will load a crapload of flash video players if you allow them. I prefer to only allow what I want to see. Everything runs better that way. Of course, sometimes when I look at a thread I see a lot of empty boxes with no explanation what I'm going to get if I let the script go. LOL

Posted 3 years ago #
Coremodels
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I just keep my local section on Google News and click if interested, took nbc4i off my favorites a year ago.

Posted 3 years ago #
Rockmastermike
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Coremodels wrote I just keep my local section on Google News and click if interested, took nbc4i off my favorites a year ago.
zipcode definable local sections is the best thing to happen to google news EVAR.

Posted 3 years ago #
turbo ninja
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Walker wrote >>
Bummer all of their old news links are broken though. TOP did the same thing when they updated. There are thousands to their sites all over the internet that are now broken. Not very helpful in finding what you're looking for.

Funny - the bookmark I have for CU's forums doesn't go anywhere now.

Not very helpful in finding what I'm looking for, indeed.

Posted 3 years ago #
Walker
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The old links to CU news stories and forums all do work. Which is what I was talking about.

For example the old ugly link of http://www.columbusunderground.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18106 will auto-redirect you to http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/nbc-4-s-new-website

Anyway, most people had the following bookmarked for the forums (which redirects):

http://www.columbusunderground.com/phpBB2/portal.php

I assume maybe your bookmark was just this:

http://www.columbusunderground.com/phpBB2/

Which wasn't redirecting properly. I just updated it. Although your browser might have the old file cached. Either way, I'd recommend updating your bookmark. :P

Posted 3 years ago #