Dear people who wrote comments like this on my post yesterday about how ugly the new online PI is:
Their last print paper is today, so I’m not sure why their brand-new website would start today too. I’m waiting to see what it’ll look like tomorrow.
The “brand-new PI” is up right now and it’s the exact same boring format as yesterday. To those who said that the online PI is the same as it always was: You’re wrong. There used to be more and varied content. To those who say it’s fine: You’re also wrong. They need to be reinventing this stuff from the ground up, and instead, they’re running a full page of hotlinked words like this:
At the very least, I wish I’d pulled up the PI’s homepage today and found a blatant ripoff of the Huffington Post. Instead, I just got the same old boring unexciting, uninformative AOL-type layout. Where’s the experimentation? Nobody is going to make this model work if they stick to the same old dumbass newspaper websites as they always have.
The site won’t even load now. Nice of them to upgrade their servers so people can actually read their product.
I agree Paul. I’m hoping this is just a placeholder, but I’m not holding my breath.
Where is the content from today? Everything from the top navigation (okay, the BigBlog is updated) is from yesterday or before with the exception of syndicated/wire content that probably auto-uploads. Definitely missing things like food/Rebekah Denn already.
Worse yet, the content is pathetic. Shockingly weak, given that the world is watching.
Jesus Christ, Paul — up until last week, the people at the P-I didn’t even know if they’d be working today. Pardon their sorry asses if they didn’t immediately innovate the flying fuck out of their Web site.
BTW: They did launch a new mobile version of the P-I site between whiskey shots and goodbyes this week, though.
Leave the P-I reporting to Eli, fatty. He can handle it.
Dude, why not call me out directly? That comment was mine, and I was expecting something different today and didn’t see it. I’m surprised. Stupid, stupid crouton!
This is the kind of magical content they are rocking: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa…
They should have rebuilt their website months ago, when it started to look more likely that the print edition was coming to an end, therefor making for a smooth transition. The way it happened, going from the printed PI to this sorry excuse for a website is more jarring a transition than when the Cardassians took back Terok Nor in season 5 of Deep Space Nine.
@8: Why? “Months ago,” it was looking like the whole thing would be shut down. Why rebuild a walking corpse when you could spend the same time building your own portfolio to land a job somewhere real?
Chill. They are figuring this out as they go. #5 got it right: Until last week, no one even knew if this would happen. They’ll get better as time goes on.
They’ve succeeded in making the Seattle Times website look good by comparison.
To bad about the risible editorial content, tho.
what crap no wonder it went out of business and no one used it.. good riddence suckaz
Wake up – if you think Hearst didn’t know they would keep the site version of their news organization, you’re extremely naive. Just b/c the journalists didn’t know doesn’t mean Hearst didn’t have folks building that site on their own servers.