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Jim Ryan — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:21:28 GMT

Before you can consider it "flawless," it might help if I didn't see NYC news items listed as Tulsa, OK news items.....

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Todd Eastman, Toms River, NJ — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:50:43 GMT

Nice, Hans and Team!

You guys did a really nice job! And it seems ( to the end user at least) you kept Murphy's law under you belt.

Keep up the fine work!

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Frank, NJ — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:26:53 GMT

No improvement. Nothing but very minor change of the screen format. A lot of waste for no results. Reminds me of Congress.

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Ruth M., Georgia — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:33:05 GMT

Here I come, CBS. Evidently you're all young and have 20/20 vision; do you know how difficult those pale pinks and greens are to read? The person who opted for smaller print must still be in grade school.

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Said Hanna, Lewis Center, Ohio — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:42:03 GMT

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!
THIS SITE IS A DREAM COME TRUE!
I'LL CHANGE MY HOME PAGE IMMEDIATELY, AND THIS TIME KEEP IT FOR GOOD.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GREAT IMPROVEMENTS.

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LYLE BULLARD LAKEVILLE IN — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:33:18 GMT

DON,T LIKE YOUR NEW PAGE ,THE OLD ONE WAS MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LYLE BULLARD

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N. Ross, Oceanside California — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:40:48 GMT

I don't like it at all. Too busy and hard to navigate. You should have left it alone!

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N. Ross, Oceanside Ca — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:02:08 GMT

What do you mean no comments yet? One time I go in here and there 8 comments, then the next time 287 and now none? Hope this isn't more to come.

Change the site to how it was before.

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Seattle, Washington — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:06:35 GMT

Sorry, don't like the changes. Too many advertisements forced on me. When I click on an article, I want to have the option to actually read it and not have a dozen other choices thrown at me before I can read what I am after. And, forced video ads are not my thing. I get force fed all day, but have a paycheck to show for it.
K

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Goobr, Lakeland, Fl — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:48:17 GMT

"Coming Soon" may be the two most dangerous words in the English language but to me, MSNBC hit the mark that you said you would.

Heck, I'm even a "right leaner" and you guys made me smile this morning. I've had MSNBC as my "home page" for years now because I feel like I get the most up to date news here. It's laid out to my liking, easy to navigate and customize to my locale. I can't tell you how many other portals I've tried and I always come back to MSNBC.

Your new format is going to take me a "little getting used to" but that's good. It (the old format) was getting a bit stale.

Kudos to MSNBC. :)

I "likey". Thumbs-Up.
Take care and please keep up the good work.

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Jerry Firman (oldfogey), Rockport, TX — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:57:21 GMT

Hans, stick out your chest, be proud. Your baby is beautiful and a heart warmer. Sure there will be glitches. Sure there will be unseen ramifications. That is what the experts are paid for. Solving problems even if they helped make them. You and yours have rendered a very, very sophisticated and attractive site.

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Tim Murphy, Ballston Lake — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:12:32 GMT

Flawlessly? You and I must have different definitions for the term. The weather and local news section does not work at all, at least on my PC. It stays stuck at NYC no matter what I change. And speaking of change, changing your settings is about as intuitive as brain surgery and it doesn't work even when you do figure it out. The homepage takes way too long to load, and the secondary loading items, like ads and sidebars, cause the display to jerk and stop and generally be very annoying. I'll happily give you a while to get it straight, but flawless? I think not.

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Larry R, New Jersey — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:31:24 GMT

I'm glad the project went off flawlessly, because the results are terrible.

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Vera Petermann — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:27:24 GMT

Go back to the old design, I am of the Senior group and I don't like change.

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Sonia — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:23:30 GMT

Seriously dislike this design. Will you please stop messing with NSN. why change an item that was already working well? Could you please find a different projfect? The unnecessary changes are quite disconcerting.

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pat daily — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:02:34 GMT

well, congratulations on ruining a good thing. the strictly functional, world at my fingertips is now so much flash and fluff, i cant navigate logically, cannot see the departments at a glance.

clearly some advertising dollars are calling the shots at msnbc.

i took one look, despaired of finding ANY hard news on the page, and immediately changed my homepage to something else.

the Law of Diminishing Returns has kicked in, good things just do not last.

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Adam, Danby, NY — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:11:22 GMT

It's growing on me, good work.

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Neal Lane, Peru In — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:29:57 GMT

My company's "Intranet" allows us access to MSNBC, most stories and photos, but will not play your videos and will not allow access to most external links. Is there any way you can imbed videos in you site to make them accessible on restricted networks, and can you include more content in your articles without relting on external links? I have the same problem with FirstGov.gov when they rely on external links.

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Dan — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:06:37 GMT

Excellent work guys. As with any web site that hosts a huge amount of content, learning to navigate the site easily will take some time for most. But, ignore the blue-hairs, this is a really first rate redesign. A really well-thought-out (and not gimmicky) approach to content organization.

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Lonnie D — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:50:39 GMT

As a fellow developer, I can appreciate the effort involved in this redesign. As an experienced web user, I immediately appreciated the personalization and restructuring of the page to suit my preferences. It is a bit disconcerting at first, and having to vertically scroll a bit more to see all the news may throw some readers, but I think its great. It's clean and easy on the eyes. A couple of things I'd suggest - removing the underlining beneath each news link. I think by now visitors know they can click on the blurb to navigate. Also, I would suggest not to make each blurb bold... it loses its significance - in fact I would bold the primary story underneath each category instead. Overall, great job. And reading Hans comments brought it all home.