March 15, 2001

HOO BOY! Did they screw this up or what?! PostNet, formerly the online edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and host of community websites for hundreds of non-profits, relaunched today, becoming St. Louis Today, while the P-D has a new home at post-dispatch.com. The old PostNet community websites are over here now and the old Post-Dispatch archives? They're 404'ed, baby.

PostNet had its problems, to be sure. It was slow to load over a dial-up, hacked together content non-intuitively and — although it tried — didn't well integrate reader-generated content (from the community sites) into the main news product, a prospect which had/has enormous potential. But I hardly think the answer was spinning off three separate URLs and dicing up the material even further. Hey, AdaptivePath kids! Call up the P-D and demand they give you large sums of money (which they also, unfortunately, probably paid to some ersatz experts to concoct this jumbled mess) to sort this out.

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