I am having the same Flash issues as "Mitch" mentions above, and have been having them for over three weeks.
I am a big fan of this site. It has the best substantive Hawkeye content available, and it is totally free. That is a great thing. It is also encouraging to see Jon askk for feedback from the sites' users and to continually improve user experience. One the smartest people I know -- a former CEO of a large company -- preaches that every business must ask their customers what they want, not tell them. I see Jon asking people on this site all of the time what they want.
I view this site daily (in season) from a work computer that uses IE8. Up until sometime in 2009, my computer had a version of IE from the dark ages. I had many problems viewing this site under the older IE version and was excited when my company finally upgraded to IE8 because I was told by people on this site that it would solve all of the problems I had been having (i.e. floating advertisments in the middle of the page that could not be minimized). Things did get better when we migrated to IE8, but it seems IE and this site still do not mesh very well, and I am guessing a signifcant percentage of the sites' page views come from IE browsers. Many of us viewing from work do not have the option of switching browers
The IE/Flash issues I now am encountering on this site are very frustrating. I know I have Flash on my computer and that I do not have trouble viewing any other webpage that runs Flash from my computer, but I keep getting a warning sign on this site for some reason that states I need to download Flash. It has slowed down my experience on this site enough that I am viewing this site much less. I am hopeful that this will get corrected, as I think I saw Jon mention somewhere recently that he is aware of the Flash problems and is working on them.
On a somewhat related note, I would love to have a version of this site that is easily viewed from a mobile device. This site is navigatable from my Blackberry, but it is not an easy endeavor. If my memory is correct, the site's articles are easily viewed via my wife's IPhone but the Forums are not (I could easily be wrong about this). Anyways, I know it may be expensive to put together a mobile-friendly version of the site or it may be something that is already in the works, but just wanted to provide you with my sliver of customer input on that issue.
Thanks again for this wonderful online Hawkeye community. Go Hawks!
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