What web sites have you given up on?

[Ichinisan]

maxconsole.com

Dextrose.com

Blackbag.org

 

[AznAnarchy99]

ytmnd
myspace
[H]

 

[Newbian]

Reddit Enhancement Suite must really change things a lot, because I find it quite the opposite. The reason I spend so much time on Reddit is because it's way too easy to access a ton of content really fast.

I used to think Reddit's layout sucked, then I started using it.

Clicking two links just to get to one image sucks but then if you want to comment on it it's a separate link and if you have use some add-on just for a normal site to surf it that only makes it worse not to mention how split up it is there with so many different channels or whatever they call them.

Just make it usable at the start... hell even 4chan has a better layout for the rare times I visit there.

 

[Ventanni]

I gave up on HardOCP.

 

[coldmeat]

Clicking two links just to get to one image sucks but then if you want to comment on it it's a separate link and if you have use some add-on just for a normal site to surf it that only makes it worse not to mention how split up it is there with so many different channels or whatever they call them.

Just make it usable at the start... hell even 4chan has a better layout for the rare times I visit there.

Why are you clicking two links to get to an image? Clicking on the title brings you right to it.

 

[lxskllr]

Clicking two links just to get to one image sucks but then if you want to comment on it it's a separate link and if you have use some add-on just for a normal site to surf it that only makes it worse not to mention how split up it is there with so many different channels or whatever they call them.

Just make it usable at the start... hell even 4chan has a better layout for the rare times I visit there.

I'm not a big fan of the "community" at reddit. It's a blend of "known" personas like a regular forum, and the complete anonymity of 4chan, giving you the worst of both experiences. I like it as a link aggregator for things I'm interested in.

 

[pyonir]

Most of mine have been mentioned...but for the +1 they are:

weather.com
cnn
espn.com
slowly getting tired of sports.yahoo.com for reasons already pointed out

 

[Pardus]

Facebook - don't care about your daily activities

Twitter - seriously, who cares

Bing - cause no one says 'just bing it'

CNN - there homepage is crap now

Weather.com - dramatic titles to get you to click on them

any website that puts a list on 10 pages instead of one to make you click though sucks big time.

 

[Majcric]

The obvious of course is anandtech.

 

[linthat22]

Harmony central. The owners finally killed the site when they switched to Lithium after the Jive software debacle.

 

[dawp]

woot went to hell when amazon took over, still check once in a while tho.


cluboc.net, site has been abandoned i place. hadn't been there in years and went back and the forum was just spam and very few post by members. I brought that to the owners attention and he closed it and started a facebook page but owner of the site decided it was just too much trouble to keep it going with full time job and running it on the side. last entry on front page is from 6/20/2012.

addicted to noise, closed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addicted_to_Noise

wasted too much time there before it shut down.

 

[BikeJunkie]

Another +1 for Weather.com. WTF is with all of the tabloid crap?! And it performs like hooker ass on my iPad.

 

[BikeJunkie]

LinkedIn

I saw value in it before recruiters completely hijacked it

 

[stormkroe]

The inquirer.net
Even had it as my homepage for 2 years.
Toms is just a regurge site now, it's currently AMD fanboy infested (though it shifts in power like a more-nerdy League of Legends.)

 

[pete6032]

Weather.com and CNN. Both have become too sensationalized.

 

[SaurusX]

Anything Gawker. They have an agenda that seeps into every post no matter its topic.

Aintitcool. It hasn't updated it's format in 15 years and the "scoops" are non-existent. Not to mention the contributors love to troll their readers with their commentary.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

anandtech, digg, tomshardware, drudge

more recently huffingtonpost and youtube. why should i have to joing freakin' faycebooger and google pus just to post comments to your site, fugdat, thanks for giving me my time back

oh, and a lot of stuff on dailymail, im not going to sit through a minute long commercial just to see a video...evar...

 

[DrPizza]

Weather.com - It's become a tabloid

Once you realize that 90% of the stuff on Weather.com seems to be nothing more than plagiarizing noaa.gov, you learn to skip all their crap & just go directly to NOAA.gov. I've advised people for years to just use the NOAA site for weather.


In addition to sites mentioned above,
consumerist.com - without the comments, the site is a lot less interesting.

 

[lxskllr]

I get my weather from my panel, or Forecastfox on my browser.

 

[waggy]

god reading this thread realized I haven't been to a bunch in years.

hardocp
digg
tomshardware
gizmodo
ocn

shit..


for weather i either use noaa or www.wunderground.com/

 

[Newbian]

I am trying to figure out what people go to weather.com for.

All I do is get my location and look at 5 day forecast more or less unless there is a storm then I will look at the radar.

 

[Kaido]

Everything in the Gawker network has been terrible since the redesign.

So much this. We live in 2013 - we have gorgeous giant high-resolution monitors and so Gawker Media redesigns everything to shrink the big pictures I love so much. And there are no clickable tag links, so if you're reading an article about hovercrafts, you have to go up and type in a search. The picture shrink completely ruined one of my favorite sites:

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

They need to take a cue from Tumblr. People are visual creatures; give us big, scrollable pictures of technology, food, and cars. I used to browse Jalopnik nearly every day until they did the redesign, it's horrible now! I've switched to Autoblog instead. Gizmodo finally grew up and stopped writing like they were in middle school and actually have great sub-topics like photography challenges and in-depth explanations of nerdy things, but it's hopeless to read now. I need a good interface, man. Back to Engdaget!

 

[pyonir]

Once you realize that 90% of the stuff on Weather.com seems to be nothing more than plagiarizing noaa.gov, you learn to skip all their crap & just go directly to NOAA.gov. I've advised people for years to just use the NOAA site for weather.

Same here. Everyone takes the info from NOAA and just "reinterprets" it so it seems like they came up with it (meaning local weather people). Why not go to the source? weather.gov is the go-to.

 

[eldorado99]

HappyPuppy

http://web.archive.org/web/19961022175110/http://www.happypuppy.com/

 

[BladeVenom]

One the worst changes was Deja News to Google Groups. One of the all time stupidest changes I've ever seen on the internet.