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msrenee · 2023-03-15 00:23:35

Unless it's changed completely since I bolted from there a couple years ago, they absolutely do. Anyone who had been using the site for more than a few weeks generally understood the difference.

Bud | karma 9252 | avg karma 2.94 · | 2016-11-06 04:30:34

It seems to me it says more about their website quality, which is different.

Chris2048 | karma 2919 | avg karma 0.51 · | 2016-07-15 10:18:32+00:00

Actually, now I see the site is different... Same difference though..

milsorgen | karma 344 | avg karma 1.28 · | 2013-11-16 16:11:52

I wouldn't say it's completely different. It certainly is positioned in a completely different way but one can still log in and view their old pages and content.

InitialLastName | karma 6569 | avg karma 2.61 · | 2018-08-22 16:29:56

Sure, but even looking at the two sites now I'm not sure I can see much difference in content quality.

krazydad | karma 187 | avg karma 2.17 · | 2014-05-14 15:38:10

It's almost like some people use both sites...

elromulous | karma 1720 | avg karma 4.04 · | 2022-09-25 19:43:56

Exactly. The website being unchanged is definitely a feature.

JanezStupar | karma 2193 | avg karma 2.56 · | 2013-12-16 15:42:55+00:00

If you went to both sites, you would also notice that a lot of the items and indeed merchants are the same on both domains.

bloqs | karma 1157 | avg karma 1.87 · | 2023-09-12 12:26:09

What makes you think this website is any different?

Cushman | karma 7681 | avg karma 4.04 · | 2012-07-30 02:16:37+00:00

I also checked the site out for the first time in a while. My first thought: "This looks like AOL.com."

But of course I haven't been to AOL in forever either, maybe they've changed. So I checked them out too. Yep, can't tell the difference.

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endymi0n | karma 11254 | avg karma 9.9 · | 2015-02-05 21:15:17+00:00

Yup. Different page, different people, different providers.

danielha | karma 1912 | avg karma 2.01 · | 2007-03-12 13:28:30

It does. The URLs submitted slightly differ.

mlvljr | karma 45 | avg karma 0.05 · | 2014-11-25 08:48:41+00:00

Wait, these are different sites??

luney | karma 49 | avg karma 1.63 · | 2013-01-11 02:56:31

With only a few exceptions. It's the same site.

The one site that stood out the most is excite.com

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ww520 | karma 9957 | avg karma 2.49 · | 2010-09-09 02:57:24

The two sites look pretty different. May be it's my lack of design sense that can't tell the difference.

teuobk | karma 1709 | avg karma 5.48 · | 2010-01-12 18:56:39

That looks surprisingly consistent to my eye.

Any data on how other similar sites (e.g., reddit) have changed?

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randartie | karma 613 | avg karma 4.09 · | 2012-10-29 19:09:16+00:00

Yes it's different because there is different content on each website, so it's still useful?

proto-n | karma 660 | avg karma 3.53 · | 2023-02-21 15:54:10

On their own websites, which is a huge difference

zacinbusiness | karma 648 | avg karma 1.73 · | 2014-05-01 07:04:02+00:00

But how observant are most people? www.halifaxbank.com vs www.halfaxbank.com for instance is a very minor difference. Remember that people misread things all the time, and the more comfortable they are with a string the less likely they are to actually read it.

HappyTypist | karma 1908 | avg karma 3.02 · | 2015-10-29 21:07:59+00:00

They don't. Same origin policy, cookies etc.. You just don't.