I thought it was odd last night about 5 p.m. when I could no longer see the forums on the front page of the Herald Website in Google Chrome, which I’ve been happily using as my primary web browser. But they were still visible and readable in with Firefox and Internet Explorer. This morning, although there is still a header that says, “Community and Discussion Forums,” on the front page there is no content underneath. Also, there is no link that says, “discuss this story in our community forums” at the bottom of news stories.
Gone forever? Closed for overhaul? We don’t know because management isn’t telling its paying and non-paying users anything. In fact, unless you had read one specific post in one thread in the forums over the last two weeks you wouldn’t have heard anything about it from management at all.
Head over to Aww, Martha!
Update 11:00 a.m. 9/1/09
Statement from the Clinton Herald
Today, CNHI, the Clinton Herald’s parent company, shut down the community forum software on its newspapers’ Web sites, leaving it up to each newspaper to decide whether to continue to offer forums as well as administration and platform responsibilities.
After careful consideration and much discussion, we at the Herald have decided to discontinue offering community forums on our Web site at this time.
We weighed many factors and this decision was not made lightly. Although we will no longer be offering the forums on this site, we will continue to offer local, state and national stories, breaking news and photos.
We are working to bring back the “Old Clinton Photos” thread that was popular on our site, as well.
Our site also will continue to evolve and we invite you to come back often to see what we have to offer.
More later.
Hey Cman!
Ya, I checked The Herald this morning and their a mess. The classifieds are a mess w/ads repeated over and over again,etc. No input on the “Hey Martha” thing. Please keep us informed.
Not running for city counsel this year? Bummer. City needs new blood. You’re perfect for the gig. ‘sup?
V.