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Talk About Tulsa => Other Tulsa Discussion => Topic started by: Gaspar on November 11, 2014, 09:50:20 AM

Title: Tulsa World Website
Post by: Gaspar on November 11, 2014, 09:50:20 AM
What has happened to the Tulsa World website. I've noticed over the past few months that any link that directs you to a TW story takes forever to load and frequently fails altogether.

Has TW finally decided to give up on that whole internet fad?
Title: Re: Tulsa World Website
Post by: BKDotCom on November 11, 2014, 10:11:54 AM
it's some horridly implemented dynamic javascript injection/ajax mess
I'm guessing related to their paywall implementation.
doesn't load at all on my home PC for reasons unknown
Title: Re: Tulsa World Website
Post by: dbacksfan 2.0 on November 11, 2014, 11:32:03 AM
Quote from: Gaspar on November 11, 2014, 09:50:20 AM
What has happened to the Tulsa World website. I've noticed over the past few months that any link that directs you to a TW story takes forever to load and frequently fails altogether.

Has TW finally decided to give up on that whole internet fad?

Residual affects from the earthquake that damaged their old building?
Title: Re: Tulsa World Website
Post by: Gaspar on November 11, 2014, 01:19:51 PM
Quote from: dbacksfan 2.0 on November 11, 2014, 11:32:03 AM
Residual affects from the earthquake that damaged their old building?


You win the internet today.
Title: Re: Tulsa World Website
Post by: sgrizzle on November 11, 2014, 04:07:23 PM
It's all running out of Omaha these days.
Title: Re: Tulsa World Website
Post by: Gaspar on November 12, 2014, 09:06:55 AM
Tried to hit it from my phone this morning because of a FaceBook post they made about some arrest or something. BANG! white browser screen and nothin!

I went ahead and blocked them from my timeline, because it seems that KRMG runs almost identical news reports, and their website works.
Title: Re: Tulsa World Website
Post by: Vision 2025 on November 12, 2014, 01:54:19 PM
Quote from: sgrizzle on November 11, 2014, 04:07:23 PM
It's all running out of Omaha these days.
On a dial-up line!
Title: Re: Tulsa World Website
Post by: Weatherdemon on November 12, 2014, 03:39:44 PM
Too many ads are preloading before the content.

If an ad server is failing then you have to wait for their request to timeout. Unfortunately that period is longer that most browsers timeout period so you end up with nothing or just the story title.

I clicked on one random story just now and got 26 ads and three videos. One of those videos autoplays and the other two begin to playing if you just accidentally move your mouse over them)

Sacrificing functionality, usability, and load times for $$$.
Title: Re:
Post by: LeGenDz on November 12, 2014, 06:14:42 PM
I'm not having any issues. Can you guys post a link to one that you are.
Title: Re: Tulsa World Website
Post by: Weatherdemon on November 13, 2014, 10:37:46 AM
It's frustrating too that they continue to link articles from the Daily Oklahoman that you can't read unless you pay for their subscription too.

Title: Re: Tulsa World Website
Post by: patric on November 13, 2014, 11:19:00 AM
Quote from: Weatherdemon on November 13, 2014, 10:37:46 AM
It's frustrating too that they continue to link articles from the Daily Oklahoman that you can't read unless you pay for their subscription too.

They must not realize that doing so only drives viewers to whatever competition has the story.