Welcome to the New Website for The Young Turks!

Email Print posted by Cenk 04/23/2006 10:12:04 PM EST

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The new site not only accommodates the radio and the video show, but it is also a blog. This means that we will be putting up the latest articles, videos and news pieces as the day goes along. There will be Young Turks features as well as stories from other sites and news organizations.

Welcome to the new website for The Young Turks!

For those of you who are used to the old site, we hope this is an improvement for you - that's why we did it. This new site will allow you to have your own page within the site and post your own articles, links, pictures, stories, or anything else your wild imagination can come up with (within the bounds of reason).

Unfortunately, you will have to create a new account to login to this site and start using it. Old login names and passwords did not transfer over. It shouldn't take long, and anyway it gives you a chance to set up your personal page on the site.

The new site not only accommodates the radio and the video show, but it is also a blog. This means that we will be putting up the latest articles, videos and news pieces as the day goes along. There will be Young Turks features as well as stories from other sites and news organizations.

We also want you to start your own blog on the site. Your posts will go up on your own homepage and the latest entries will also be on the main homepage of the site under "Forum." You can vote on other posts and the most popular will be on the homepage of the website for longer periods of time, so everybody can read them.

We want you to feel at home here. Build your own homepage anyway you like, write any articles you like and point out anything you find interesting in the news and the world.

Of course, we welcome comments to help us make the site better. We want to make it easy and fun for everyone to use. We will not be able to respond to suggestions instantly. But we will read every one of your messages and do our best in trying to address your concerns.

For those of you who are new to the site - welcome! We do a daily current events show that is very much against this administration. We look forward to the day when can all celebrate the exit of George W. Bush from the White House, whether that's January, 2009 -- or earlier.

We also cover many other topics on the show that are not political. Some of you that are only concerned about the state of our government these days - justifiably so - please bear with us on our tangents. Those of you who like to hear about all current events, including politics, pop culture and entertainment - you've definitely come to the right place.

These days we cover a lot more politics because the current government is so disastrous and produces so many scandals. We look forward to the day when all is right again and we can go back to talking about J. Lo's ass for half the show.

Please check out the video links on the site, the show itself, our posts and the posts of your fellow Turks. If you love the show and can't get enough of it and want to help it grow, we'd love to have you as a member.

Thanks for coming.

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Welcome to the New Website for The Young Turks! | 13 comments (13 topical, 0 hidden)
Investment well worth it. (none / 0)

It will require a bit of a time investment to get familiar with the site, but it will be well worth it.

David 

by davidk on 04/24/2006 04:00:55 PM EST

Super Duper (none / 0)
Love the update to the site and the expanded functionality. I'll keep a blog here now too.

by Suspect Device on 04/25/2006 11:32:04 AM EST

I don't understand (none / 0)

Why did you guys kill all the discussion forums?  I thought that was one of the most thriving, and interesting parts of the website.

To be perfectly honest ... I can't get through on the phones anymore, and if I can, it means a 45 minute wait before being told that you've moved on to another topic.   Now the forums are gone, which were essentially created by guys like me, Tim, Jimmy, Tj, and Ken.  We spent a lot of time and effort trying to make them interesting and helped get them going in the first place.

I don't understand why it was so important to eliminate  all that effort.  You guys are joining in the overcrowded line that is singularly obsessed with web logs, encouraging more and more people to rage on for pages and pages without saying anything.  The fact is, most people haven't taken expository writing classes, and shouldn't be encouraged to go on ad nauseum.

The show, and web site, that I never missed seems to have given up on me.  I'm disappointed. 

by DenverAdam on 04/25/2006 02:07:03 PM EST

Forums? (none / 0)
Forums are gone? Is that true? That sucks...

by Suspect Device on 04/25/2006 05:03:29 PM EST

Discussion Forums (none / 0)
Adam, two things. First of all, the old site is not destroyed. At the least for nostalgia purposes and more importantly because there were things I loved on there, we preserved it.

At some point, we hope that people will be able to tour the Ancient City of YT. Hopefully once we figure out where to "put it."

More to the point, this format while strange and foreign now to all of us (and yet ironically cliched at the same time), I think is better in the long run. It allows for everyone to have their own space to write posts. And all of those posts go on the front page.

I know you guys put a lot of time and effort into building the old forums and Dave and I thought long and hard about that. But we can build something even better here. My guess is that the same guys who posted the most on the old site will be the same guys who post the most and are read the most here.

It's just a different format. The substance is exactly the same. We really hope you guys understand.

Cenk

by Cenk on 04/25/2006 08:57:54 PM EST

Front page video (none / 0)
Cenk and Dave... would it be possible to have a link to run the video independently? Just curious. The advantage is you can have the show run in the background while browsing the site. For IE users (not me, netscape all the way) that do not have tabbed browsing, it would be helpful to them. //Matt (in Milwaukee)

by Suspect Device on 04/26/2006 10:46:08 AM EST

Yes and no (none / 0)

Cenk:

I understand that you're always looking for ways to improve and keep the site fresh.  I have no problem with that.  I don't think anyone does.  But turning it into something that looks like every other web log on the planet, while different from what we had, is hardly new.  Plus, without a heirarchical structure, it will be impossible to find something you're looking for after the first couple of weeks unless you're watching the new topics pop up on a 24/7 basis.  As much as I love you guys, I don't have that kind of dedication.  I'm all for change, but I'd like to be able to find things I want to find.

One of the most aggravating things I see on the web is  searching for a particular phrase or search set ... let's use "global warming cheney oil dependence" ... and being sent to a web log's front page because all of those words appear, although not in the same topic, and then you have to sift through yards and yards of topics that bear absolutely no relevance to what you want, only to find that what you want isn't there to begin with, or is buried so finely that you miss it even after four passes.

I like having things grouped by relevance.  Things stay together.  It's easier, it's the way our minds are taught to organize, and it's not the flavor of the month.  And believe it or not, I actually do care what Ken has to say and want to be able to find it easily. 

A heirarchical forum encourages discussion and debate.  A web log encourages speeches.  I'll give it my best, but my hopes are dim.

 

Suspect:

Good point.  Plus, although it's been said many times, I don't think anyone is listening -- not all of us have lightning-fast access that can handle the video without stopping everything. 

by DenverAdam on 04/26/2006 11:20:58 AM EST

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To Forum or not to forum... (none / 0)

I am a big fan of forums myself. I had about 100 or so on the old YT forum myself, but stuck to another board for most of my posting. On this other board I post tho, we do have very lively debates and if we want, we can have a blog too. Rarely do some of the members (like me who have been active on that board for at least 3 years or more) use the blog function.

 I am not arguing either way if you should have this format or the other. Its your site after all. But something to consider.

by Suspect Device on 04/26/2006 01:39:41 PM EST

Forum dilema (none / 0)
I have to say that I am in complete agreement with DA on this. I consider many of the folks who posted on the forums to be my friends, and although I have been to busy to post much, I have been checking out the posts and kept in the loop. Not only have we lost the forums, I am forced to sign up under a different user name becouse my e-mail was being used by a different user (me) but I couldn't log in to that account to change it. I don't want to be a complainer, the change may be good in the long run, but right now I feel like the Turks have turned their backs on us, your loyal fans.

by juebawl61 on 04/26/2006 10:30:31 PM EST

Membership? (none / 0)
I have been a paying member for well over a year now, but with my change in user name I lose it all. Come on guys, this ain't funny no more!

by juebawl61 on 04/26/2006 11:03:01 PM EST

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username (none / 0)

juebawl61,

i had the same username issue. you have to go to the login page, put in your old username, (but not the password though), and hit the mail password button.

then you will get a new password emailed to you. there were still some kinks (with the new password) and i emailed Dave Kohler for him to help me (producer@youngturk.com

plus, Cenk announced the new website on Monday(???), yet the new site didn't take effect for me until today, a few minutes before the show today. i didn't try to log in before that today.

by Hue on 04/27/2006 01:12:14 AM EST

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passwords (none / 0)
I had the same problem - even when I clicked the button to have my password emailed to me it never worked.  I finally emailed Dave & he said to use your user id as the password & then you could go in & reset it.  That finally worked for me.

To Cenk & Dave - I agree with DA, TJ & Juebawl about the elimination of the discussion forum.  If you look at what is being considered a forum here, it's really nothing more than a mini blog.  Very few of the postings have replies or any discussion going on.  I think the post with the most replies is this one.  I also miss the ability to send someone a PM.  I could have sent the info in the first paragraph to Juebawl without everyone in Turkworld having to read it.  Just my 2 cents.

by MrsDA on 04/27/2006 02:46:46 PM EST

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It took three days to get here. (none / 0)
Finally, I figured out how to login. I was starting to think I had been exiled to Spathiland.

by Twba on 04/28/2006 07:12:31 AM EST

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