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January 23, 2009
Daily Gripe About NY Times
Have you tried to search by neighborhood today? Have you been told that you've selected more than 51 locations, when you've selected only 6? Have you been unable to deselect the "All Brooklyn" box without getting a "You much choose one location" error message? Have you wanted to march down to the Times building, find out who the genius was who created this redesign and just start choking him?
I have!
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I have had those issues. Plus the fact that the site is super slow. Plus the fact that simple tasks require extra click-thrus etc etc. Why they had to mess with a formula that worked is beyond me... Damn, youd figure in a lousy economy you wouldnt spend money on unnecessary pieces of crap.
Posted by: saminthehood at January 22, 2009 5:40 PM
I had the same problem when I tried yesterday. I don't get why they keep re-doing their search and it keeps getting worse.
Posted by: Bessie at January 22, 2009 5:43 PM
Yes, it's terrible. I wrote to to the NYT Real estate section and complained and tried to get everyone on b'stoner to do the same - they need to know how awful the new system is!
Posted by: Miss Muffett at January 22, 2009 9:29 PM
I've had problems with it for years. Especially the "you need to select a location" message when I already have. Haven't used it in the last week though.
Posted by: mopar at January 22, 2009 11:21 PM
Yes, their new site is just horrible. A real waste of time.
Posted by: bk14 at January 23, 2009 1:05 AM
It'll get fixed soon. Carlos Slim from Mexico is now the new defacto owner of the NYTimes.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 23, 2009 8:46 AM
I wrote the Times to complain. The site is completely awful.
Carlos Slim was an idiot to throw money at that beast while there is still a two-class voting structure.
Posted by: lechacal at January 23, 2009 10:31 AM
Why is no-one complaining about the Corcoran site? Use their search by neighborhood section and see what happens. At least the Times has other revenue. Corcoran's site always crashes on me.
Posted by: dittoburg at January 23, 2009 10:34 AM
The old search was pretty bad as well, but what was the point to change it without improving it?
In my opinion, the worst part is that the Times lets advertisers pick their own categories, so that if you select "condo" or "multi-family houses" for "Fort Greene", you may still get coop listings in Park Slope or Gravesend. It really devalues their search engine.
Posted by: Maly at January 23, 2009 10:38 AM
Sorry I only look at Cocorean's site when I am in the mood for reading something funny. You would think that the brokers that work in Cocorean smoke some really good stuff with the prices they still try to get. I don't think they understand that housing prices are going down- way down.
Posted by: hannible at January 23, 2009 10:57 AM
I was bummed after the last re-design, but this one is totally useless. I wrote in to complain the first day it went up.
Posted by: NsPx at January 23, 2009 12:54 PM
As long as we are test driving the NYT real estate section, FYI to the Times editors: Bushwick and Bed Stuy are vastly different neighborhoods covering huge areas of Brooklyn and should not be included in the same search. DUH. They don't combine Tribeca and Chinatown. Or Park Slope and BoCaCa.
Posted by: mopar at January 23, 2009 1:29 PM
the people from the interactive news division at the times are answering questions from readers this week. why not ask them about changes in the real-estate section?
Posted by: acfnyc at January 23, 2009 1:40 PM
Regarding the neighborhoods I got this response from the Times:
"Thank you for contacting NYTimes.com.
You should try clearing your Web browser's cache of temporary Internet files which
usually fixes problems such as you've described. Because most people's
Internet Service Providers (ISP's) and Web Browsers come in many
different versions, we can only provide generalized instructions.
If they do not help you, please refer to either your ISP's technical support center or
your browser's Help documentation.
Since our Web site is constantly updated, you set your Web browser so
that it will not cache articles.
The purpose of a cache is to prevent the browser from reloading each
page, and instead require it to use a version stored locally on your hard
drive; using a cached page will prevent you from seeing the most current
pages we offer.
To make sure you are not viewing a cached page, first try pressing the
"Reload" button to refresh the page.
If the same page reappears, you need to "clear the cache". To do so,
first make sure you are not currently on our home page; go to
another Web page while you change the following settings:
For Internet Explorer (I.E.):
Internet Explorer 7.0: choose Tools | Internet Options | General,
and under Browsing History, click on Delete Files.
Select the "Delete Files...." button to the right of Temporary Internet Files.
Internet Explorer 6.0: choose Tools | Internet Options | General,
and under Temporary Internet Files, click on Delete Files.
Select "Delete all offline content." Click OK to confirm.
For Firefox:
Choose Tools | Clear Private Data
Check the box next to "Cache" and click "Clear Private Data Now"
For AOL 6, 7, 8, 9:
From the AOL menu, choose Settings.
In the Preferences window, under Organization, click Internet Properties.
In the General tab. Go to the Temporary Internet Files area.
Press Delete Files. Select "Delete all offline content." Click OK to confirm.
Choose OK to exit the AOL Internet Properties window, and you're done.
For Safari:
From the Safari menu, select Empty Cache. When prompted, click Empty
and confirm that you wish to empty the cache."
That's a whole lotta instructions to run a simple search!
Posted by: doghouse at January 23, 2009 1:41 PM
If you head over there for the choking of the web team...let me know. I'd love to join you. This is the dumbest website I've EVER seen.
Posted by: doghouse at January 23, 2009 1:49 PM
When all else fails, blame it on the browser. Typical.
Posted by: SnarkSlope at January 23, 2009 5:18 PM
Wahhhhhaaat? The New York Times web site is one of the most brilliant. My only regret is they can't enable comments on all the stories. (Because they don't have enough editors to handle the volume.)
Posted by: mopar at January 24, 2009 11:28 AM
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