Thread: DMOZ submit down?

On freeserve I could never get it to work right, and I've only tried a couple of times on pipex, but it works sometimes. Just not very often.

It's like that some times, just need to remember to keep the information in notepad or something so you can resubmit later, also many a time when it says it's timed out it often has sent the data so your listing is in just you think it's not done it as you never seen the thanks for submitting page, annoying as an editor that is as you end up with 3 or 4 of the same sites waiting to be checked.

I've never been able to submit to DMOZ in explorer but seems to work a dream in Netscape.

its been down for a while. On the SEO boards, you can find advice to 'keep trying' and to 'use the back button' etc. Personally, I tried this for a whole afternoon and *nada*. Think it's nacked until they buy some new hardware..

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JaJa

I believe that DMOZ is in the process of upgrading their servers ... seems to take longer than most other businesses would take.

Iain

DMOZ have been upgrading their servers for around 12 months

I think DMOZ's time has come.....time for google et al to look for a new categorizing solution

DMOZ are buying new servers - and say they are spending a lot of money this time round to make sure they are up to capacity.

But not sure if they'll be able to keep up with the demand - 900 million Chinese and another 900 million Indians to come online yet

best learn mandarine and about 300 other asian languages 1.8billion people :-) anyone know if we can get chinese/indian domain names and anyone know any translators?

If you submit to a category where there is no editor, what happens?

You hope that a 'green buster' or editall editor bothers to look at that category

Or.......you could apply to become an editor for that category yourself

just used opera to submit and it works a dream.

Should I be wondering if they activily seek to slowdown IE users????

worked last night for me on explorer (unusually) but took about 1.5 mins to get the submission and even then they queued it as they couldn't determin my IP. Had time to make a coffe.

to test this *outrageous* theory that a reputable web company might actually show preference to its own products, I cranked up my good ole copy of Nutscope 6 (with Gecko sauce, natch) and tried to submit to DMOZ.

Worked about as well as IE. In other words, not at all. Only advantage I can see is that the time out leaves you on the same page, so you can just keep pressing the submit button, like one of those trained monkeys in front of a peanut machine...

It's nacked. Personally I blame Cnut for submitting 30 or 40 thousand mobile phone sites every day.
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JaJa
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