Comments on: Netscape is closing down social news. Really this time.

By: Netscape Social News: Propeller Update

Netscape Social News: Propeller Update — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:18:46 +0000

[...] encouraging news from Netscape social news. When Netscape first put rumors to bed about Netscape shutting down social news, announcing the move to propeller.com, the Propeller domain brought up nothing. Today, going to [...]

By: brian

brian — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:05:14 +0000

@john: lol, that’s the fun of speculation

By: John

John — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:58:52 +0000

“Perhaps TechCrunch is correct this time. TechCrunch reports that Netscape may be moving over to the wow.com domain, of Compuserver former glory.”

Again Techcrunch is wrong, they never get it right.

By: brian

brian — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:40:43 +0000

@brian: yes, it’s indeed a shame. I’m hopeful that Netscape social news will continue on to exist in another form on another site, as is now being said.

By: brian

brian — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:33:07 +0000

@muhammad: I’m not sure if anyone knows exactly what is happening. Only a few weeks ago, Techcrunch reported that Netscape was going to close social news, which many of us argued against. We now see what he reported as coming to be.

While you mention that my headline is sensationalist, but if you look at some of the recent headlines:

AOL to Drop Digg-Like News From Netscape - AP
Netscape Ends Digg-Clone Social News Experiment - Wired
Netscape Digg Clone Is Kaput - Techcrunch
Netscape’s Digg clone goes belly up - Cnet

My story is pretty in line with other headlines, but many of them do not go into the further details such as the possiblity of moving off to another domain, continuing to maintain user accounts, etc.

I’m a huge fan of the Netscape community and take no pride in reporting that Netscape, as we know it, is closing down is news site.

By: Leonard Bartholomew

Leonard Bartholomew — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:11:50 +0000

That’s what they get for banning my site.

Stumbleupon is easier to use. It takes me 5 minutes to get the traffic that it takes me over 2 hours to get from Netscape. That and the content is not so political. You can be yourself.

Leonard Bartholomew

By: Brian Turner

Brian Turner — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:06:34 +0000

It seems that AOL just aren’t sure what to do with itself or its assets, which is a shame.

By: Muhammad Saleem

Muhammad Saleem — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:45:16 +0000

It’s unfortunate that even talking to me and having me explicitly point out to you what exactly is happening that you use a sensationalist headline.

By: brian

brian — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:02:01 +0000

@mike: lol. It seems like netscape.com will be reserved for the browser again? No clue. They have such unbelievable traffic there, hardly seems to make sense to move it rather than keep it.

By: Mike Belasco

Mike Belasco — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:58:03 +0000

Let’s see, web browser, social news site, …?? Hot dog stand?

Seriously what is next for these guys, weird