Netscape has changed its home page to make it Digg Style -- User Powered News Content. The "old" Netscape Home Page is still available to those who want to use it.
From the FAQ it seems that Time Warner (TWX) held Netscape is doing something in its own interest -- trying to reset AOL as the new homepage and trying to rebuild the old Netscape site along Web 2.0 - user generated/powered content line of thinking.
However, the Netscape community seems to be uncomfortable with the change to their Home Page as is visible from the Comments to the "changed" Netscape Home Page FAQ:
- The new Netscape sucks, and it really blows too. CHANGE IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We don't want the "AOL" homepage. We want the ORIGINAL Netscape back. A loyal user since 1995. WTF? You should have run the beta version, then offered to the ones who really want it, cause I am thinking that 99% DON'T want it. GIVE US BACK OUR OLD NETSCAPE!!...NETSCAPE!!...NETSCAPE!!...NETSCAPE!!...NETSCAPE!!...
- With so many of us hating the new ( Lousy) look I wonder why Netscape would continue with it. I dont think its user friendly. It is a confusing look, sad since I had been loyal to Netscape right from the start, but this turns me off. I have switched to Yahoo home page till Netscape switches it back to the old format or at least gives us the choice of choosing a format.
Ignoring existing Netscape users
I don't think that redoing Netscape into a Web 2.0 paradigm and/or copying Digg will really help Netscape -- especially in the way that a transition path for existing users was not worked out. The existing user base is already upset about being forced into a blogging view of the internet world:
It seems Netscape, does not intends of returning back to its old format. So I suggest, we ALL find a new Browser (LIKE GOOGLE, they have e-mail),,,and change over. Netscape, which is own by AOL, who I hated, is forcing us to use something that sucks,, IM NOT A BLOGGER,,, that what Netscape has turned into. If they lose customers, maybe then they will take us serious.
...Continued Netscape's Sudden Change Irritates Userbase
