SCN: websites to feature

[Rod Clark]

> Speaking of content...  did we quietly disappear commercial pages
> and individual pages?  Rather than wait for an answer I'll
> venture my opinion that if we did ban them then that was a
> mistake...

Doug, 

   Personal site hosting could have been very important for SCN
in attracting users, volunteers and suport - a significant
attraction (and maybe it still could be if we radically upgraded
it.). But not as it is being offered now. Sadly, our personal
site hosting is largely moribund because it is so behind the
times and uncompetitive with the choices much better other that
people have. Word of mouth has been very unkind to SCN on this.
Our listing at http://www.scn.org/subscribers mostly hasn't been
updated for quite a while, because almost no users are
interested in new personal site hosting on SCN any more.

   It's so clunky to make and maintain a personal site on SCN
that people, especially those who are new to the Web, know not
to come to SCN for that. Our Operations committee is adamant
that it is impossible to allow our users to use FTP, for Ops'
own reasons. This means that we have essentially thrown away any
chance to catch up in this area, as long as we stick with such a
user-unfriendly system as we have.

   A few small businesses tried SCN and almost all have since
moved elsewhere. 

Rod Clark

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