RichTC - 10:56 am on Nov 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

I think with this one Netscape/AOL et al must be asking the question "Do we want to invest money in a new server network for a directory that doesnt provide any financial return?"

It doesnt matter if you are for or against this directory the fact is from a business point of view it doesnt provide any financial return what so ever - Its a complete liability.

So from this point of view any work on the dmoz servers or network is frankly an act of Charity, hence its not likely to move at a very fast pace is it?

Thats the way i see it anyway

Meanwhile its no good editors claiming that everythings ok because visitors can still view the front end. The fact is that visitors are seeing out of date information that cant currently be changed or updated - this must be damaging / undermining the reputation of DMOZ.

Also, if volunteer editors havent been able to do any editing for over six weeks now i would have thought they would be very quickly losing interest in it or moving onto other directory sites if they love editing so much.

In all i dont think this situation is very good - Has anyone at AOL/ Netscaped passed any comment on how long before the service is likely to be up and running again?