The last two iterations of the site have been something of a mess.
Tobacco Reviews Website Update
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In that case, when I say "the old site", I'm referring to what it most recently was before the change. I never saw what it was like when first made or how many versions it has been through.
Once upon a time, just a few years ago, there was this simple little site called Tobacco Reviews.
It didn’t have any fancy pages, extra features, interviews with brain donors, forums, or badly written barely literate extraneous content.
All it had was a database of reviews, a decent set search options, the occasional ad stuffed into corners of the page, and a couple of pages of stats about the members.
It was a simple purposeful site and therefore needed to be tarted out to become a profit center.
Tarting out a site successfully requires intelligence, taste, and careful judgment. The original site was pretty close, just a bit spare. The last two versions have added bulk, glitzy mediocrity, and lobotomized it.
Perhaps the twice former site should be resurrected with some small additional content, like tobacco blending for the home enthusiast, a well crafted article about a carver, etc.
Just restore the search functions.
Perhaps that horse is already dead.
Additional beating will get you nowhere.
Additional beating will get you nowhere.
It's "New and Improved!"
Still seems like a decent site, though perhaps a bit too much going on compared to how it was before
This site can’t be reached
www.tobaccoreviews.com refused to connect.Error establishing a database connection
Must have been some maintenance or something though that should’ve been done at like 3AM.
I miss the old site two or three changes ago where is was just white with some green accents, looked like it was from the 90s. It was so much more functional.
Everything from the 90s was better. What's scary is, eventually we'll be looking back on the 2023 as "the good old days" when stuff was still good!
I dunno, I kind of like the high speed WIFI and browsing the net from the toilet with a pocket computer rather than being sat before a giant box chained to one location with a noisy 56K modem that took 5 minutes to connect.Everything from the 90s was better. What's scary is, eventually we'll be looking back on the 2023 as "the good old days" when stuff was still good!
I remember it taking 8-12 hours to download a single mp3 album at 192kbs VBR, now I can download like 3-5 albums of lossless audio files in an hour while streaming Hulu at 1080p resolution with no buffering on a mid-tier net package.
I don't miss the 90's at all. Then again, at the time I was a poor, red-haired kid in middle school that got picked on a lot. The one thing I do miss is power searching on Google, they need to bring back the ability to exclude terms.