Several Netscape Users Not “Digg-ing” New Style
As we reported back on June 15th, Netscape underwent a makeover to include community-driven news in the style of Digg.com in an attempt to lure visitors to its lagging site. But according to a NY Times article released today, the new site was formally introduced on June 29th and Netscape users are not happy. Apparently, the browser continues to have its following despite the success of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. These longtime fans have expressed their dissatisfaction with the new “social news” style and have demanded that AOL revert the browser to its earlier incarnation.
The rejection of the new Netscape has been witnessed primarily through the site’s own interactive features. One user entitled a post “Netscape’s blunder!!!” only a few hours after the redesign was released. The posting elicited more than 300 comments, many of which were pleas to bring back the old Netscape. One UCLA grad student created a petition on July 1 requesting that AOL “bring back our Netscape.com.” The petition had received more than 1,000 electronic signatures before Netscape removed the entry from the “top stories” page and closed all comments shortly after.
Andrew Weinstein, a spokesman for AOL, felt that the signers of the petition constituted “a very small percentage of Netscape’s users.” According to Weinstein, feedback on the new Netscape has been largely favorable and he expressed AOL’s desire to make all users happy. He did concede, though, that “almost any change is likely to cause some concern in a subgroup of users.”
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