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Housekeeping
Well, day 3 and the new website is still up, although some odd traffic patterns earlier led us to believe that we may not make it. We did... And thanks to many of your generous donations and hat purchases we have been able to buy a redundant, hot-swappable server which will assure we are around when we are needed most- that is, when certain others have the most cause to wish we were not.. Plus it will speed up load times materially.
Furthermore, we are reading your feedback. We know what you want and are working toward achieving it. The good thing is now you all know what we have to work with: from here on, readers will be, at worst, pleasantly surprised. But remember: there are many gorgeous websites out there, many of which would pass the Calvin Kline smell test of what a "cool" website should look like. Frankly, we couldn't give a rat's ass. And judging by the huge boost in traffic neither do most of you. As a reader pointed out, give me a Lynx text browser, and I will still read Zero Hedge over another website anyday. Of course, we are flattered.
But the point is, we want to make Zero Hedge not just informative but esthetically pleasing. We will get there, and we thank everyone for the hundreds of suggestion emails and forum posts. From day one, Zero Hedge has been an adventure in democracy, ironically in parallel with our country becoming anything but.
So your patience as we roll out is appreciated. Like I said before, there are some very exciting launches coming that would not have been doable on any other platform. Once the majority is happy with this initial stage, we will divulge them.
In the meantime, keep reading and writing. As always, the thing that differentiates Zero Hedge is our proactive readers. At times we hate you but we can not exist without you. So keep punching us in the ear: that is what democracy is all about. We can take it.
In other news, I will be in Europe for 10 days after tomorrow, collecting toxic debt samples. If the MSM is unwilling to go to ground zero, someone else should. Which is why I leave you in the capable hands of Marla, Cornelius and Travis, and some of our closest friends, who will soon share their delightful and provocative thoughts with all of you.
TD
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Thank you. Zero Hedge has shifted my focus from tidbits of information to the meat that I have so hunted down over the past months. Enjoy your vacation and much thanks
Could you find a way to drop the three persistent items at the top of the page if I've seen them many times, or read them?
TD and co...lots of anon posters are making it a little hard to sort who is who at the zoo....is there any way you could give a nudge for anons to come up with a moniker...?
Godspeed TD!
Can we have full text RSS feeds again?
agreed, please please please bring back fulltext rss
Suggestion: i know you have a million right now so ignore me for a while until you can get to it but... at the old site the comments page was my favorite part. reading robottrader and gordon and those guys i learned a ton. with this format it is very hard to find the posts of the people i like to listen to to learn. maybe you can outsource your comments to disquss for a while until you get a comparable setup built? i would love that. but im a nobody, just here trying to learn..... and in the big picture part of all this, thanx a ton for this website. you should publish a book so little guys like me can buy it and share it with our non internet friends at the same time supporting you and zh financially.....
What's with this "enigma" business in your motto? Bring the old blogspot mantra back please! I can overlook the small uglies with this small reversion...
I AGREE. Bring back the old slogan.
I am also finding it harder to follow contributor comments, but I guess that is not so bad.
When do you roll out the European contributors? I am giddy to see what they will bring here on the old continent (though I personally may soon relocate to Asia or South America)
i think I preferred the old version. I don't like having to open a new link to see the story....scrolling down was great and worked and made sure it kept my interest. I work in a dealing room and we used to yell out interesting ZH stuf to each other and then everyone else would go read it. Doesn't happen any more...too hard when you're watching the market and dealing the whole time.
Enjoy and thanks to you and the team for all you do.
The new service is awesome, I think the best part is the ability to follow each persons posts via their name, too often Tyler's rapid fire posts may hide a piece from Marla or Cornelius and I like to keep up on all of their work.
The forums are also very cool (while i have not posted), I enjoy seeing the development of ideas from threads to ind. posts.
It looks good.. im still partial to the old blogger site... it so busy here...
You want to hear this but your new format is unreadable. I will probably be forced to stop reading your excellent site because the new format - a thin column with barely any information available on the individual posts without clicking through - is non user friendly.
One thought on the technical side of things - you can save a lot of server hits by adding an Expires header. Currently the server is not returning that header:
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$ curl -I http://www.zerohedge.com/modules/taxonomy_vtn/taxonomy_vtn.css?W
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:05:14 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) DAV/2 PHP/5.1.6
Last-Modified: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:13:39 GMT
ETag: "7b0137-604-a79766c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 1540
Content-Type: text/css
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Assuming you've got mod_expires available, just add this to your httpd.conf and do a "/sbin/service httpd graceful":
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<FilesMatch "\.(ico|gif|jpe?g|png|js|css)$">
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 year"
</FilesMatch>
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Best of luck with the new site, and thanks for the great content!
Or, I should say, "/sbin/service httpd configtest && /sbin/service httpd graceful". Never hurts to be safe...
The new site is very nice. But could you show the entire post on the front page? It's a hassle to click "Read More" for every story.
Completely agree....don't want to have to click through to read the whole story. Don't have time for that at all.
Glad your going into the field. Good luck.
esthetically? league tables? That's the King's English. Your anonymity is slowly eroding.
Tyler, We will all miss you! Have a safe and wonderful trip!!!
Thanks Zerohedge! Can't wait to hear what your recon turns up
Great stuff here on ZH. Loved the old stuff. Love the new stuff. It's all about the content for me. Who gives a rats a$$ how pretty it all looks.
Bon Voyage TD.
I remember when I had Tyler post on my website to help get him some notice. Ah those were the days, FEBRUARY! lol
http://www.fundmymutualfund.com/2009/02/guest-post-zero-hedge-some-more-...
Great content as always, but what's with the new layout? Did your summer intern design it? Oh well, have a safe trip.
oh, now much better! (maybe it was my browser, with the skinny middle column) Nice job!
nice work, friends. of course, we are mostly creatures of habit who don't welcome change, but i think this is for the better. it's true that not seeing each entry in its entirety is a drag, but it streamlines the format and the page loads faster as a result. i agree with those who suggest to get rid of the semi-permanent banner blogs. i like the stuff to the right in gray (i.e., archives, most popular, etc.). i'll probably continue to find new features along the way that will be deemed nifty, so those will be classified as pleasant surprises. i'm a wannabe chartist, so a discussion on that every once in a while would be nice. the s&p looks to finally be rolling over and forming a head & shoulders (reversal) pattern. discuss. :)