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New Netscape.com is a decent, usable news rating website

by Darren

I never used the old Netscape, so I don’t have any complaints about the new one. I tried out the new Netscape recently, and found it easy to navigate, and simple to use. It’s similar to Digg, but not an exact copy. The site allows the users to decide which news stories are important, by voting, just like Digg, but has some additional features you won’t find elsewhere.
One nice feature is the random story that gets rotated on certain pages. This will give your website a bit of exposure, even if it hasn’t garnered a ton of votes.

A couple of annoying things stand out also. The visit the site in a Frame bit doesn’t seem too kosher, although you can break the Frame with a click of a mouse. They’re probably doing this for visitor tracking purposes, but I’d rather have my article appear without a Frame. The Framed page doesn’t have Title at all in Firefox.

Other bugs I noticed: being sent to the wrong confirmation page after entering a story and allowing double posts. There doesn’t appear to be a duplicate story checker installed yet.

There are plenty of good things about the new Netscape, as well. Two good things are the activity log, which shows what’s happening on the system, and the fact that a decent community appears to growing quickly. It’s great to have another option to just Digg, and it looks like the Netscape people got quite a few details right on this version. As they add features and remove bugs, I’m predicting this site will end up being very successful.

It looks like over 10,000 people have already registered on the new Netscape, so the launch is off to a decent start. No idea of the effect of being “Scaped” is yet, but hopefully I’ll find out very soon. Don’t forget to click if you enjoy this article.