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    The Buffalo News Website Front Page

    ...is one of the biggest jokes I've seen.

    Out of the 30 or so articles, several will be new. Most will be repeated over the course of 3-5 days. Many will be repeated in various places on the front page and all in all the amount of actual content is minimal. Is the paper itself as bad (sans any political bias) as their 8th grade level web site?
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    Quote Originally Posted by HipKat View Post
    ...is one of the biggest jokes I've seen.

    Out of the 30 or so articles, several will be new. Most will be repeated over the course of 3-5 days. Many will be repeated in various places on the front page and all in all the amount of actual content is minimal. Is the paper itself as bad (sans any political bias) as their 8th grade level web site?

    It is crap but in part it's designed to the audience.

    They don't have the quality of staff to put out top level journalism on a consistent basis...so anyone who values that does not read the site. The people who do read the site tend to be....well they enjoy lots of pictures.

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    If you have a pet to clean up after you already know it's best use. Their website is a freaking joke. I know that Buffalo is a backward city with little of import happening here but please, delete the stories from 4 days ago.
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    A link on their website today about the ECMC computer mess takes you to a story about United Way...almost the same thing!

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    Quote Originally Posted by grump View Post
    If you have a pet to clean up after you already know it's best use. Their website is a freaking joke. I know that Buffalo is a backward city with little of import happening here but please, delete the stories from 4 days ago.
    This is what I'm saying. 4 day old stories that show up in 4 different places. They could remove those and all the "Smiles at...." and just leave the sidebar opened so the sub-categories are visible. Like I said when they made the change - a wordpress theme set up by a 9th grader....
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    If there was another local paper available. I would purchase the other paper.
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    Did you know some people are unearthing an old mansion in Somerset?? It's only been on the front page of their website for, oh, about 3 weeks now.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by HipKat View Post
    Did you know some people are unearthing an old mansion in Somerset?? It's only been on the front page of their website for, oh, about 3 weeks now.....
    It's like Groundhog Day , wake up and see the same story on the website day after day

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Lackawanna View Post
    If there was another local paper available. I would purchase the other paper.
    If someone offered you a turd day after day you'd probably stop buying. Treat this piece of **** the same way!

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    The funny thing is they have a 10 article limit per week but they produce less than 10 articles worth reading each week.

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