• (cs)

    I clicked on the Best of the Sidebar link, and the title came up over a blank page. That was funny. :)

  • (cs)

    At first the name change was odd but I like it. I work at a company with software that is "Worse than Failure".

    We have many applications and technology in use that if they had failed, would have meant that we wouldn't have to suffer with them day after day. If they had failed, the people who had created them would either be forced to improve or would be gone.

    Because of the all too common "If it ain't broke don't fix it!" mentality we are forced to suffer with applications and technology that truly is "Worse than Failure"

  • Some Guy (unregistered)

    Heh, this is like reading about some pointy haired boss that always seems to get cited:

    1. We want a new name
    2. Rather than checking what the new name should be, we check what the old name shouldn't be
    3. Create new name based on absolutley nothing, that absolutely no one is satisfied with

    It would seem that in lieu of the old new name sucking, the process has been repeated.

  • Cod, James Cod (unregistered) in reply to RxScram

    I second that. It will make the site more enterprisey and brillant.

  • AdamTheBastard (unregistered)

    Why not just run slashcode and let the users moderate?

  • (cs) in reply to LoeZ
    LoeZ:
    "The Real WTF" is that the Random Article -link sometimes takes me from the english site to the russian site.
    I got German too.
  • Fister (unregistered) in reply to RxScram

    FIST!!1!one!

  • G (unregistered)

    "The Daily Worse Than Failure"

    Congratulations for making this announcement yet another WTF

  • Kristian Z. (unregistered)

    Why not publish the posts with a "first!!" comment pre-attached? Then, as soon as the second comment (ie. first /real/ comment) is posted, the fake "first!!" comment can be deleted automatically.

  • (cs)

    WTF?

    How is adding "The Daily" to a stupid name supposed to appease those of us that thought the stupid name was stupid? Now it is just a longer stupid name.

    The problem wasn't the dropping of "The Daily." The problem was taking a nice TLA and defining it!

    New Coke was a new product, not a name change. ATT -> Cingular was a merger...

    Isn't the definition of "worse than failure" when you do something and you think you succeed, but you really don't?

  • roshi (unregistered)

    I want to see some graphics of the results!!!

  • Atario (unregistered)

    Well, I guess this proves at least one thing: that 5.5% of TDWTF readers have Javascript turned off. Or, like me, turn it off momentarily, when it suits them.

    I haven't conducted a study to get the actual number, but the comments on this story should also prove that a certain percent of TDWTF readers don't read Javascript alert() boxes.

  • Zambah (unregistered)

    How about www.thedailyworsethanfailure_final.com ?

  • (cs) in reply to Kristian Z.
    Kristian Z.:
    Why not publish the posts with a "first!!" comment pre-attached?
    This is an excellent idea. Or perhaps you could have a separate "Add FIST!1! Comment" link/button.

    But why stop there? Let's give the people what the people need. Instead of having only "Reply"/"Quote", we should have comment links for at least some of the more common tasks, such as adding a "Brillant!", "The REAL WTF is ...", "Not a WTF", or a "print it out, put it on a wooden table ..." style comment.

    Think of all the time we could save!

  • (cs) in reply to AbbydonKrafts
    AbbydonKrafts:
    RMW:
    same (i got a message saying it was invalid)

    It was just Javascript. The people who chose it were those who disabled Javascript - probably specifically for the purpose of circumventing that particular block.

    Who disables Javascript? I just used Firebug to remove the onchange event from the select box! Much easier.

  • Shannon McMahanson (unregistered)

    Being responsive to user feedback is a very charming trait, indicative of advanced frontal lobe development and possibly refined child raising skills. I love you.

  • (cs)

    Love the featured comments. Excellent idea.

    I for one will be rushing to read every Alex's Soapbox article that gets published.

    All in all good changes. I was one of those "couldn't care less about the name" people. Nice work taking the piss out of everyone that did care. :D

  • (cs) in reply to RxScram

    If I recall correctly, despite complaints that it was all about censorship, the stated reasons for the name change were:

    1. They're not all WTFs, we also have Error'd and serious articles.
    2. It's not daily any more.

    So is it going to actually be daily again?

  • Tyrannical (unregistered)

    Jesus, is this some kind of joke post?

    “The Daily Worse Than Failure” is even worse. No, make that Worse than Failure.

    How about you go back to "The Daily WTF" BUT in YOUR mind you can pretend that WTF stands for "worse then failure"

  • ruff (unregistered)

    so the next site address would be: http://yourdailyworsethanfailuredeliveredtoyourbrowserwhateverbrowseryoulikebest.com/ or http://thedailyworsethanfailurecuriousperversionsin informationtechnology.com/ ?

  • (cs)

    I vote for therealwtf.com

  • Eric (unregistered)

    I don't care what the site is called, it's really the content that matters. The reason I prefer the old name is because of the shorter domain name. With this "compromise" it's just getting worse. You haven't reached failure yet, but keep changing the name and the site might soon live up to it's name.

  • brodie (unregistered) in reply to s.

    Seriously. "I might just adblock it"? LOL. If a website name or logo bothers you that much, you really need to get some help. Or get some things in your life that are actually worth getting upset about.

    I can't imagine what happens to you people when other insignificant crap happens in your life. If you get this bent out of shape about a name change on some website, what do you do when something truly serious happens in your life?

    Bookmark the site and read the articles. Then the name really doesn't matter anyway, if that's the sort of thing that bothers you.

    Man, what a bunch of fucking whiners.

  • Tobestar (unregistered)

    Can I recommend a new alternate site acronym in honour of all the argument about the name ..

    The Daily WGAF

    (I'm sure you can work it out)

  • Nelle (unregistered) in reply to Daniel Beardsmore
    Daniel Beardsmore:
    Oh, and it's nice to see thedailywtf.com working again -- I left my bookmark using that URL and now it's working as normal. Woo!

    I never stopped using it

  • Cloak (unregistered) in reply to Sunstorm
    Sunstorm:
    I approve of the featured comments highlighting. It gives me a small carrot to actually go out of my way and comment, something I usually wouldn't bother. Having the chance of my post being highlighted lets me feel slightly fuzzier inside. Hopefully that's not an incentive just for me.

    Wouldn't see it as a tool to filter out the "good" comments though. I enjoy a lot of the boredom-induced diatribes that people tend to go on over here and will read all the comments anyway. For maximum effectiveness, it should have a "show only featured comments" tickbox somewhere. It could then collapse all of the other comments Digg-style, or hide them altogether.

    that's all nice but somebody has to do : read the mail and classify it. Are there enough resorces at theDailyWTF?

  • Cloak (unregistered) in reply to T $
    T $:
    I happened to think, there's a potential problem with the Featured Comments: What happens if someone posts a legitimate comment first and then later edit/replaces it with "FIRST" or "FIST"?

    I actually quite like the race for the FIST!!!!!!!! Only here in Europ we're getting the latest WTF around or after 6 o'clock. Just the time where you are on your way back home. It's a pity I can't participate.

  • (cs) in reply to Gyske
    Gyske:
    I'd like to propose a new, new, new URL: http://thewebsiteformerlyknownasthedailywtfandworsethanfailure.com

    How about:

    ILikeWastingMoneyOnDomainNames.com?

  • Cloak (unregistered) in reply to RxScram
    RxScram:
    I think that Alex should have a quarterly name change... picking a new and improved version each time. Just picking a single name seems like a poor idea and an excuse in laziness. In fact, if Alex could do monthly name changes, that would be even better...

    Yeah, THAT would be TRWTF

  • Cory (unregistered) in reply to RxScram

    Randomized monthly name changes would be most excellent.

  • Cloak (unregistered) in reply to Zambah
    Zambah:
    How about www.thedailyworsethanfailure_final.com ?

    Later this could become

    www.thedailyworsethanfailure_finalNew.com www.thedailyworsethanfailure_final2.com www.thedailyworsethanfailure_final2New.com www.thedailyworsethanfailure_thelatesstfinalNewReplacing theOldFinalNew.com

    and so on

  • Cloak (unregistered) in reply to magetoo
    magetoo:
    Kristian Z.:
    Why not publish the posts with a "first!!" comment pre-attached?
    This is an excellent idea. Or perhaps you could have a separate "Add FIST!1! Comment" link/button.

    But why stop there? Let's give the people what the people need. Instead of having only "Reply"/"Quote", we should have comment links for at least some of the more common tasks, such as adding a "Brillant!", "The REAL WTF is ...", "Not a WTF", or a "print it out, put it on a wooden table ..." style comment.

    Think of all the time we could save!

    WTF

  • Cloak (unregistered) in reply to Tobestar
    Tobestar:
    Can I recommend a new alternate site acronym in honour of all the argument about the name ..

    The Daily WGAF

    (I'm sure you can work it out)

    We Got All Fucked ?

  • Synonymous Awkward (unregistered) in reply to brodie
    brodie:
    I can't imagine what happens to you people when other insignificant crap happens in your life. If you get this bent out of shape about a name change on some website, what do you do when something truly serious happens in your life?
    Probably suffer an attack of apoplexy so intense that they physically explode.

    "The release schedule's been brought forward a week?! WhyyyheeeaaGGGHHHH splut"

  • Claxon (unregistered) in reply to RxScram

    Give me a 7 figure budget 20 Comp Sci grads and 3 years, and I'll Harness the secret powers of programming to create a site that automatically renames itself every time it is visited. It will even send Alex's credit card details to a registrar for each domain name, and e-mail all existing users, notifying them of the name change.

    What more could you ask for?

    PS. How many of us disabled JavaScript just so we could select that menu option in the survey that was disabled via javascript?

  • dube (unregistered) in reply to gabba

    oh my, it even has MORE letters in the url!

  • (cs) in reply to kernelman
    kernelman:
    tells us that you have no discernible spine.

    And your post tells us that you have no discernible brain.

    Seriously, the fact that you even care what name Alex chooses for a site that BELONGS TO HIM is ridiculous. You lusers that have nothing more important in your lives than to whine about the site name here should be embarrassed. I know I would be if I were in your position.

    Get a life.

  • (cs) in reply to OzPeter
    OzPeter:
    Given that ad revenue is based on a numbers game, I would say that pleasing the majority is a better business model for the long term (unless of course you feel you can easily replace the people you have annoyed)

    Given the fact that the content hasn't changed, the damned name makes absolutely no difference. And anyone petty and moronic enough to be "annoyed" aren't intelligent enough to be reading posts here anyway; they should be simply rocking in their chairs and twiddling their thumbs to keep themselves amused.

    You should start now.

  • (cs)

    So, it appears that the "featured comments" are hand-picked by Alex? As opposed to being "voted up" by the community? (Being that I don't see any + or - buttons)

    Probably for the best, then, to avoid gaming the system.

  • (cs)

    And that's a nice change to a pastel pink on the CodeSODs. Fancy.

  • (cs) in reply to Gyske

    I'd like to propose the old URL: http://thedailywtf.com, which is all of a sudden appropriate again! :)

  • dbg (unregistered)

    The changing of the website name twice is a WTF all by itself. :)

  • Ror (unregistered) in reply to KenW
    KenW:
    kernelman:
    tells us that you have no discernible spine.

    And your post tells us that you have no discernible brain.

    Seriously, the fact that you even care what name Alex chooses for a site that BELONGS TO HIM is ridiculous. You lusers that have nothing more important in your lives than to whine about the site name here should be embarrassed. I know I would be if I were in your position.

    Get a life.

    And you have nothing better to do than to troll and flame users on an internet board? :)

  • Ric (unregistered)

    Will you be publishing more detailed data on the survey? Or even raw (anyonymised, of course) data? -- either in XML or a file format you invented yourself.

  • (cs)

    Good job making me bookmark three different links to be able to see the articles I want to on a single site. This seems like a WTF to me, you should submit yourself.

  • Zaippa (unregistered)

    I like the new new new name! Nice!

  • James (unregistered) in reply to gabba
    gabba:
    Ah, a _compromise_ name. I'm sure this will make everyone happy and we'll hear no more about it.

    Compromise, n.: a conflict resolution in which all parties are equally unhappy.

    Oh, and bonus! For the first time in well over a year, I got a CAPTCHA that isn't in my browser's autocomplete database. You forgot to list that one!

  • Traffic hazard (unregistered)

    Frequent name changes would be awesome, and would serve to enshrine the victory of dumbness over common sense demonstrated by most of the articles. Have a competition each month or two to choose a new WTF acronym to use for the following period.

    Wait Till Friday Wet Twin Females Wobbly Torso Flab Want To Flee Whales Taunt Fishermen

    The possibilities are mind-boggling.

    captcha: refoveo - It's Latin. We know that much.

  • Vector (unregistered)

    How about

    http://www.thedailynamechange.com

  • Drift (unregistered)
    Speaking of which, I’m surprised that only 5.5% of you said that, given the opportunity to leave that first comment, you’d leave “a well-reasoned, humorous, and insightful reply.”
    What's the margin of error on that? 6%?

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