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Alabama Posters...How awful has al.com become?
Posted on 8/17/15 at 8:38 am
Posted on 8/17/15 at 8:38 am
Went there this morning but its nothing but clickbait. UA/AU Sorority Bid Day Photos. Vintage Alabama Pets. World's Strongest Man in Gulf Shores.
Now I don't expect it to be the Wall Street Journal or New York Times, but its comical about how bad it has gotten. I get that their goal is to drive pageviews but al.com has morphed into some sort of Buzzfeed wannabe. Every damn story is a slideshow.
Now I don't expect it to be the Wall Street Journal or New York Times, but its comical about how bad it has gotten. I get that their goal is to drive pageviews but al.com has morphed into some sort of Buzzfeed wannabe. Every damn story is a slideshow.
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Posted on 8/17/15 at 8:41 am to FairhopeTider
no mention of the comment sections 
Posted on 8/17/15 at 8:55 am to NYCAuburn
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no mention of the comment sections
No worse than tRant
Posted on 8/17/15 at 9:02 am to FairhopeTider
I've deleted my Al.com Alabama football app. They intentionally post shite to have Alabama and Auburn fans at each other. I don't need to know what that the AU football website is trolling Alabama fans. I'm sure stuff irrelevant to Auburn fans shows up on their version of the app.
This post was edited on 8/17/15 at 9:03 am
Posted on 8/17/15 at 9:03 am to FairhopeTider
al.com is the main reason I am on this board. It has sucked so bad for so long its untenable and has been for a few years. The online forums are trolled so hard (mainly by dumbasses on both sides of UA/AU) that its impossible to conduct any conversation at all.
I havent logged on there in at least a year.
I havent logged on there in at least a year.
Posted on 8/17/15 at 9:08 am to FairhopeTider
it has always sucked. Let's not make a big deal of it now.
Posted on 8/17/15 at 9:49 am to FairhopeTider
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UA/AU Sorority Bid Day Photos
John Archibald trolling for clicks is what I don't like about the site.
Posted on 8/17/15 at 9:50 am to FairhopeTider
I live in Alabama...and I'm afraid they are doing an excellent job of serving their target audience.i
Posted on 8/17/15 at 9:56 am to FairhopeTider
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Went there this morning but its nothing but clickbait.
The way they put pictures is not "clickbait." AL.com embeds their slideshows onto one page.
"Clickbait" is that crap you see on facebook where you have to load a new page for every single picture. That's why it's called "clickbait", because the whole point is to bait you into clicking a new page 20 times and generate the website more ad revenue every click.
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UA/AU Sorority Bid Day Photos
They post these every year. People like hot college girls.. It also appeals to all the alumni in the state of both schools who were greek, and after all the whole point of AL.com is to cover things people in Alabama will find interesting.
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Vintage Alabama Pets. World's Strongest Man in Gulf Shores.
Again, nothing new. They post a weekly article with pictures from all over the country. The same article gets posted all over the country on similar news sites, so it's not like it's just AL.com
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no mention of the comment sections
Been a cluster frick since the site opened. Comments sections all over the internet are cluster fricks, AL.com just gets the added benefit of the idiots of the UA and AU fan bases.
None of these gripes with AL.com are anything new. If you don't like those kind of things, then don't click on them. I don't. I still check AL.com almost daily, but I scroll through and only click actual news articles. It's still the best site to get actual news from all over the state.
Posted on 8/17/15 at 10:03 am to BowlJackson
quote:I agree with this and it's the main reason why I still visit.
It's still the best site to get actual news from all over the state.
I can get my industry news, crime news, and construction news for any part of the state with ease
Posted on 8/17/15 at 10:08 am to FairhopeTider
It's a fine site if you know how to navigate off the main page and get to the actual news articles and columns.
They've had a few really great investigative series in recent years, but they've only been on the main page for a little while because nobody clicks on them.
They've had a few really great investigative series in recent years, but they've only been on the main page for a little while because nobody clicks on them.
Posted on 8/17/15 at 10:15 am to FairhopeTider
I hate the sports section, but I follow the city development/business side occasionally because they do a good job of giving good insight on the progress of Huntsville, Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuscaloosa.
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