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  • Bill Gates was ousted from Microsoft board over staff relationship

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    9secondkox2 said:
    Bill Gates is gross. 

    How the dude ever convinced Melinda to marry him is a mystery. 

    But then, the toad is the one who cheats? And he’s the one with the nasty vices? 

    Gross. 

    He should be great full for anyone who ever shows him an ounce of affection. 

    Dude got used for his fame and fortune. And he sold his soul. 

    So sad. 

    Now, he’s not only gross, but old and gross. 

    Don’t know much about Melinda but she seemed sweet. 

    Dude deserves what is happening now. 

    Gotta feel for every wife, gf etc that actually loves their other half, but whose partners want to push some otherwise deal-breaking crap on them. 

    “Hep babe, I love you and our kids. But I am going to go get busy with Trixie every year for vacation. Every year. So be ok with that.”

    and that is likely just the top of the iceberg. 

    What a guy. 

    Dude was so distracted with filth, no wonder he got whooped by Jobs at every turn and didn’t foresee Ballmer driving the company into oblivion. 

    And if he is doing all this other stuff, the Epstein connection just begs for a further look. 

    Not going to end well. 


    StrangeDaysviclauyycdysamoria9secondkox2

  • Apple debuts colorful 24-inch iMac with M1, upgraded camera and audio

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    The chin is ugly, the grey outline is a huge head scratch for a company who is trying to embrace entertainment the way Apple is, the lack of ports on the low end (and lack of touch id on the keyboard) is kind of ridiculous. I was ready to pull the trigger on a new iMac for work, but now I guess I wait for WWDC and hope they're smart enough to not make the same mistakes on an iMac pro. 

    That said, this thing is going to sell like hotcakes to the masses. 
    JSR_FDEDelijahgwilliamlondon

  • The Big Redesign Feedback Thread

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    clinc said:
    It's better without the weird scrolling, but there's still way too much wasted space.  Just give us condensed summaries of articles in reverse chronological order.  Simple and efficient.
    The featured articles aren't going anyway guys, sorry. Feel free to use https://appleinsider.com/archives as your bookmark though.

    clinc said:
    It's better without the weird scrolling, but there's still way too much wasted space.
    We did put in a patch to do a word count on articles and not include one of the topmost sidebar elements when it's below a certain threshold. Should help a lot when we have shorter articles.

    This is an actual functional problem — search results pages don't work at all:

    https://appleinsider.com/search/?query=test

    Check it, links don't work — nothing is clickable except the nav bar.
    No one can reproduce this. Can you provide us with more info? (os version, browser version, device, etc.)

    amar99 said:
    Like some others, I’m finding the new design a bit disorienting. I mostly view the site on an iPad, and the second nav bar that “snaps” on to the top one is unpleasantly jarring when it shakes the whole page for its animated effect. 

    I’d rather have fewer links taking up space at the top. Ideally, there would be a fairly compact area at the top that would disappear when I scroll down, stories would be organized in chronological order so I would always see the most recent at the top, and individual headlines/teasers would take up less space on the home page so I could see more at once, rather than the three I can see now. 

    I also miss the stock ticker, even if it was broken much of the time.  
    I just came to the forums to point out exactly this jarring behavior. As soon as you reach the first article on the main section of the page, the toolbar jumps, and then the headline is cut off. Then we’re left with two toolbars which take up a decent chunk of useful screen space instead of getting out of the way and just letting us scroll down the page. How many hits do you actually get on those shortcut links? Fine to have them at the top of the page, but please don’t keep them around as we scroll down. Thanks!
    A fair amount, actually. Moreover there are SEO implications to that bar. I'll look into making it a bit less snappy/jarring.

    The stock ticker is missing on ipad because we just didn't have space for it and something had to give. It exists on mobile and desktop. I'm not sure how we can address that in the future. Tablets only make up like 5% of our reader base, so any tablet-specific fixes get lower priority = \
    retrogusto

  • The Big Redesign Feedback Thread

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    ITGUYINSD said:
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    I hope the bottom placement of the "Read more..." wasn't placed down there as some sort "censoring" of the forum content in an effort to groom the contents by making it more pro-Apple and difficult for the average "Joe" to post their opinion.  While some people do come here just to troll and post negativity, at the same time, everything Apple does/sells/designs isn't always perfect (maybe to the dismay of some here) and so posting an "anti-Apple" post isn't always trolling.
    It was not. There is already a link to the comments at the top of the article, and we only display 5 comments beneath it. The amount of space that takes up depends on the length of the comments. The link is there to prompt the user to go to the forums if they want to read more.
    fastasleepazamino

  • Like and informative buttons vanished

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    Likes and infs are back.

    What we found when we were looking at the dislike button, before we made the decision to remove it, was that it was overwhelmingly being used to pile-on people regardless of post content. We did contemplate breaking it out into more buttons "misleading, hostile, etc." but in order for that to be meaningful it requires the people participating in the system to be well-intentioned. As it existed in its simple 'dislike' state it didn't provide any value other than to discourage posters and encourage tribalism.

    Informative is a result of the positive-spin of that component breakdown we explored with dislikes. If we take a sampling of posts marked informative vs those that are simply liked the posts marked informative are generally of a much higher quality, so it is serving its purpose.

    Also just for some technical stuff: The plugin we use to manage these reactions has been abandoned, so it's up to us to patch it to keep up with changes. Sometimes it can create some problems with load (which is why it was temporarily disabled). We are looking at doing a full forums upgrade at some point this year and that should help address a lot of issues people have been raising (no, we're not ignoring you.) Other stuff needs to get done first, but it is on the dev plan for this year.
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