29th Sep 2006
Daypop 404, WTF?
A sad day: I just deleted DayPop Top 40 from my shortlist of Firefox bookmarks. For years, I would tell people it’s my favorite resource on the Web. I know that there were other similar resources (WTF? I just see that Blogdex is also on the fritz?), but for whatever reason Daypop was always my favorite. But it’s been 404 for months. It was Web 2.0 before its time. What’s next? Flickr? Delicious? All the other too-good-to-be-true fun sites out there? (And, while I’m at it, curse you Nick Denton for spiking Screenhead, my other favorite site!)
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Here’s what happens when you type in just daypop.com;
You get this whiney, non -acceptable excuse from those Daypop homos:
“Daypop down until further notice…
Sorry for the inconvenience.
After adding a bunch of submitted sites, Daypop no longer has enough memory to calculate the Top 40 and other Top pages.
If there’s no simple fix, Daypop won’t be back up until a new search/analysis engine is in place.
A new engine will take at least a month to get online”
So I guess it should be called everyothermonthpop, huh?
You’d think the grandaddy of web/blog metrics would have something else to say besides “search engine faw down and go boom” Fuckers.