Google Groups

12/01/04 | Me

[Kornev]

Ok, wtf.. Go to Google usenet. They've totally ruined it today! The archive is completely unusable in this new format.

[freebilly]

You can get a replacement usenet on eBaY. One with very nice archives, too....

[BigSkyFreeper]

Complain to them.

[Kornev]

I don't see a complaint box, but I'll be looking.

[BigSkyFreeper]

http://groups-beta.google.com/support/bin/request.py

[Jaysun]

Here's the best search engine on the web in my opinion:

http://www.altavista.com

[ThePythonicCow]

So ... what's so bad about it? I just went and looked up a couple of usenet threads I had participated on in the past, under another identity. Seemed to be usable to me.

[cynwoody]

They've backed off to the old version. Not sure just when. But the beta was the live version last night, and it sucked!

This is a case of fixing what was not broken. I hope it doesn't become a trend within the company, now that it's public.

[ThePythonicCow]

They've backed off to the old version.

But they left the new one under the link

New! Preview the next version of Google Groups

And I tried the new one, and I ask again - what's wrong with it? Could you actually make a coherent explanation of what's wrong, past repeating that it sucks?

Thank-you.