Personal computing discussed
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Norphy wrote:Today's, um, article from Renee has raised my eyebrows somewhat...
Aranarth wrote:You mean they posted it as speaking from experience?
1. Little forethought has gone into the choice to migrate.
2. You’ve chosen to migrate your site at a bad time of year.
4. You didn’t put your migration through a test run.
6. You forgot to scrub your site of duplicate content.
7. You are migrating ONLY to grow your traffic and lead sources.
8. You cobbled together in-house manpower for the migration like a true DIYer.
10. You’re ignoring the red flags telling you to wait.
Norphy wrote:Today's, um, article from Renee has raised my eyebrows somewhat...
derFunkenstein wrote:Aranarth wrote:You mean they posted it as speaking from experience?
So much of this is just heartbreaking.1. Little forethought has gone into the choice to migrate.
"Well I don't know what voodoo this site runs, but I don't like it"2. You’ve chosen to migrate your site at a bad time of year.
Like the day of the biggest change in CPUs in two years? Yeah that's a bad time of year.4. You didn’t put your migration through a test run.
Remember last summer when we reported all those bugs that only kinda got fixed?6. You forgot to scrub your site of duplicate content.
Or, you know, you forgot to migrate ALL the content, like the subscription management page with the Stripe applet.7. You are migrating ONLY to grow your traffic and lead sources.
Literally the only reason for the switch to Wordpress. Wordpress in and of itself is not bad; the theme with too little information density is the problem. Still. Over a year later.8. You cobbled together in-house manpower for the migration like a true DIYer.
Poor askfranklin.10. You’re ignoring the red flags telling you to wait.
You mean like a critically important review going live the same day coupled with the fact that the migration hadn't been tested and finally matched with the fact that the redesign resulted in a slow and ugly site that crapped on the legacy of its founders and crushed the souls of then-current staff?
tfp wrote:Odd topic, I'm not sure any one in benefits management would be interested in that articular and it doesn't help general employees because it's not their call...
cphite wrote:tfp wrote:Odd topic, I'm not sure any one in benefits management would be interested in that articular and it doesn't help general employees because it's not their call...
And anyone who was actually in a position to make decisions would roll their eyes and laugh at that article.
But some algorithm said that "401K" would drive clicks and so our esteemed "editor" had to throw together another list of things any idiot could tell you about whatever.
superjawes wrote:Is it just me, or has there been an uptick in "SEO" content lately? It has me concerned because it kind of feels like: "This thing we own is not generating the revenue we want. Get traffic now or we pull the plug!"
superjawes wrote:Astoundingly it's nothing compared to what's happened to PCPer since Shrout left for Intel. If SimilarWeb is to be believed, that site only gets half the traffic of TR, and it actually got a 3080 to review.
Buub wrote:Maybe one of the original guys can buy it back for pennies on the dollar now!