On Commenting

Recently, our newspaper implented registration for commenting on stories. There have been issues with getting the registration confirmation emails working, and I’m told that it’s being worked on. There is a workaround, and though it’s a bit clunky, it will work.
If you are unable to click on the confirmation link when you register, you can [...]

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Changes for Photo Reprint Ordering

Many readers visit our daily photo galleries and often purchase a reprint of a photo that appeared in our paper. This is a service we have offered for years. This is especially popular if you have a son or daughter who participated in sports or a school event we covered. Having one of our award-winning [...]

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Commenting Will Require Registration

According to The Independent’s parent company, GateHouse Media, at 9AM EST on Wednesday 6/11/08 we will integrate commenting registration across all sites.
If you wish to comment on articles on our website, you will have to register and provide a valid email address. This is being implemented company-wide for all GateHouse Media newspapers [...]

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Archives, Spotted and Reprints, oh my!

We’re looking forward (really, REALLY looking forward) to the return of our full archives. I still do not have an ETA for them, but they’re putting the final touches on them and they should be returning within the next week or so. Growing pains eh?
We do have some fairly exciting changes coming with our Spotted [...]

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Highlights from the Redesign Q&A

You can replay the live chat we held to help answer questions about our new website redesign, but if you don’t want to sift through that, I’m going to post some of the Big Questions people had.
Archives: Our full archives will be down for a while as the company tackles getting 10 years of stories [...]

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Independent Website Relaunch Q&A


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Awards, Changes, and a Poll

I’ve got a lot of things to report on this, our Redesign day.
First, The Independent won an award for Best Website this past weekend. Woohoo! And three days later the website underwent a complete redesign from the ground up. Time will tell if the new look helps us win again next year.
But speaking of the [...]

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Pets

In all the hoopla surrounding our site redesign, I completely forgot to point out a new feature we have in our classifieds section - PETS! What’s that you say? Pets aren’t new. What are you talking about?
We’ve partnered with a company called Gadzoo in order to bring you, dear readers, a feature-rich section full of [...]

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Leading up to the Big Change

As you might know, The Independent was soldĀ  in November of last year to a new company called GateHouse Media. This meant a lot of changes internally for us, but it will also mean some changes for you, the readers of our website. We will be launching a new look for our website that uses [...]

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Tale of woe

This week has been a bit of a battle in trying to ensure the website is loaded each night. The machine we use to do this keep corrupting the database and crashing. Since the copy desk takes care of loading the site, they don’t know how to fix that sort of thing and so it [...]

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