Regular visitors to the MacComedy website are pissed off that the site hasn't been updated in weeks.
"This is total crap," said Jon Miller in a recent e-mail to MacComedy. "When the hell are you gonna actually put some new stuff on your site? Are you gay or something?"
Another visitor agreed. "We can only take so many different versions of the Steve Balmer video before we crack."
Jeremy
Borger, webmaster and creator of MacComedy, seemed to be on the defensive.
"Look, do you people think all I do all day is sit around typing
up funny, Mac-related articles?" said Borger. "No! I have a
life, too! Plus, it's not easy to come up with different ways of saying
what an idiot Michael Dell is."
But that response didn't seem to sit well with visitors to the site. "If he doesn't have time to update his website, then maybe he shouldn't have one," said site visitor Tom Kudla.
"MacComedy isn't as fresh and creative as it used to be," said Guernsey Research analyst Chris LeTocq. "And it's hurting their popularity. Visitors will come to a site that's updated regularly. If weeks go by without an update, people begin to forget about the site and don't come back."
Still, there does seem to be hope for the failing MacComedy website. A new Fun 'N Games section of the site offers something different that hasn't been seen on the site before. The video of the opening of the Columbus Apple Store was the first time MacComedy ever put up completely fresh material in its Movies section that wasn't found anywhere else online (even though it wasn't that funny and we're still waiting to see the 320x240 version we were promised). And the Steve Jobs tab under the "Contents" nav bar actually takes you someplace now.
Site design is another issue. MacComedy recently got rid of many of its tables in favor of designing the layout with CSS. However, some browsers, such as iCab, don't properly display the CSS layout. When Borger was questioned about this, once again, defiance.
"If the seven people out there who use iCab have a problem with my site, they can suck it," said Borger.
"New content and frequent updates are key if MacComedy expects to keep the 12 people who visit the site each day coming back for more," said LeTocq. "Maybe if [webmaster] Jeremy Borger would stop using all his free time playing Unreal Tournament, he'd actually have a decent website."
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