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join:2003-05-04 Schaumburg, IL
1 edit | Re: New Comcast.net Web Just looks like it's rearranged a bit. There is some more customization you can do now, sort of like the previous version. You can also change between 3 different color schemes.
I didn't get any mail, but it just tried it, and it is the new format. That said, I rarely use the page, so I don't know when it actually changed.
The mail check is still goofy. It says I have 8 new mails, but there are actually none as I don't read it on-line but use Thunderbird. | |
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  dadkins Can you do Blu? Premium,MVM join:2003-09-26 Hercules, CA
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| said by pokesph :so I just got this email from Comcast announcing an all new website.. anyone else get it? what's so new? Looks ALOT like Yahoo.com? -- Think outside the Fox... Opera | |
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| Re: New Comcast.net Web said by dadkins :Looks ALOT like Yahoo.com? it sure does.. and it scares me.
I hope this isn't the entry into Comcast using Yahoo services like so many other ISPs have done.. | |
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| Re: New Comcast.net Web AT&T-Yahoo! portal page. |  Comcast portal page. |
said by pokesph :I hope this isn't the entry into Comcast using Yahoo services like so many other ISPs have done.. Wouldn't that entail a 'yahoo.com' URL? Such as, 'comcast.my.yahoo.com/'? -- Norman ~Oh Lord, why have you come ~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum | |
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  Quaoar
join:2004-08-11 Fort Collins, CO
| Yep! Comcast updates their net interface page, hoping that their customers (most of whom do not ever read this page!) will fail to realize that Comcast is very slow at updating their internet up/down speeds, and is actively denying Netflix streaming when there is "congestion". Not that Comcast is re-investing their profits on our backs in eliminating "congestion".
Comcast is what it is, and nothing it can do with a new web interface will counter Comcast's poisonous corporate culture. | |
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 |   dadkins Can you do Blu? Premium,MVM join:2003-09-26 Hercules, CA
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| Re: New Comcast.net Web said by Quaoar :Yep! Comcast updates their net interface page, hoping that their customers (most of whom do not ever read this page!) will fail to realize that Comcast is very slow at updating their internet up/down speeds, and is actively denying Netflix streaming when there is "congestion". Not that Comcast is re-investing their profits on our backs in eliminating "congestion". Comcast is what it is, and nothing it can do with a new web interface will counter Comcast's poisonous corporate culture. Tell us what you really think there friend. LOL! -- Think outside the Fox... Opera | |
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join:2009-04-02 Seattle, WA 2 edits | I don't get what this has to do with the subject. Slow at updating? Here in Seattle I can choose a 50/10 if I wanted to. | |
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join:2008-04-13 Glenelg, MD
| Re: Try the mobile comcast.net designed for iPhone »m.comcast.net/iphone/index.jsp#_mainMenu - works well in Firefox, but not in IE8
This doesn't work. Try to search for a movie in Fancast. Type in "Back" to search for as an example. You'll get a bunch of results but you can't scroll down past the first page or go directly to any other letter. This makes search, my most important feature, unusable. | |
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  koshoka
join:2006-12-01 Pottsville, PA | I didn't get a good look at it, I kept dozing off after a few seconds. | |
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  cypherstream Looking forward to the future of things. Premium,MVM join:2004-12-02 Reading, PA clubs: | I like it. It doesn't yell at me for using Google Chrome.
On the old one in the top left it said "Get Comcast's Internet Explorer 8". Uhh, I'm sure Microsoft would like to know Comcast is taking all the credit for IE8. | |
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  RR Conductor RailRoadDude Premium join:2002-04-02 Redwood Valley, CA | I saw that, went to the new page, and was so impressed I closed it so as not to wear it out  -- You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything. | |
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  freebird317 Premium join:2004-02-23 Portland, OR | I hate the new page. I will now only go there to check email. -- Lead, Follow I do not care just get out of my way. | |
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 |  CCCarole Premium join:2008-05-29 Palos Heights, IL | Re: New Comcast.net Web One advantage of the new Homepage is that you can customize it. You can set it up as lean or as loaded as you'd like. | |
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join:2000-07-29 Chicago, IL | Re: New Comcast.net Web I keep writing to them about the mail count but it does no good. I just checked again and it says I have 29 e-mails with 0 unread. Well, I would really like them to show me exactly where they are. | |
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| Re: New Comcast.net Web said by LarryE :I keep writing to them about the mail count but it does no good. I just checked again and it says I have 29 e-mails with 0 unread. Well, I would really like them to show me exactly where they are. I pointed that out during the SmartZone beta, but there's been no progress in that. SmartZone is really Zimbra, so maybe it's the Zimbra team to blame? | |
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| Re: New Comcast.net Web said by cypherstream :said by LarryE :I keep writing to them about the mail count but it does no good. I just checked again and it says I have 29 e-mails with 0 unread. Well, I would really like them to show me exactly where they are. I pointed that out during the SmartZone beta, but there's been no progress in that. SmartZone is really Zimbra, so maybe it's the Zimbra team to blame? So, how do we contact Zimbra? Someone needs to fix it. | |
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| Re: New Comcast.net Web In the lower right hand portion of your SZ window, there is a link "Tell Us What You Think" which goes here: »www.comcastsupport.com/forms/net···back.asp. We read all of those, of course. 
Also keep in mind that some of the email engineers read BBR forums directly, as well as our Comcast Email forums. We weigh all of that feedback combined when developing our feature release and bug fix schedule. Something to keep in mind -- we certainly try to keep tabs on what our users would like.
We're currently rolling out a maintenance drop that fixes some bugs and includes an enhancement (when you collapse ads, they stay collapsed instead of popping back out regularly). We're roughly half way through with the roll-out, so some users are on the new code base, others are not (some features will not roll-out until 100% of users are on the new code base). This will be complete on approximately 7/10/09. -- JL Comcast | |
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 |  |  |  CCCarole Premium join:2008-05-29 Palos Heights, IL | Have you refreshed your browser? If I read my messages in SZ and refresh my browser the count goes to zero. | |
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| Re: New Comcast.net Web Oh good point!
It must not be a forced refresh automatically. I do believe a manual browser refresh fixes it. I'll have to test with a few different browsers.
Original issue seemed to be that if Outlook pulled my e-mails off the server, logging into comcast.net I would still see a very high e-mail count.
Again, I'll have to experiment with it a little more. | |
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| Ok I opened Chrome and logged into comcast.net and it said I had 3 e-mails. This was the first site gone to through google chrome, so I don't see it being a refresh issue.
So I click on it, and it says I have 3 messages, 1 new. Go into my mailbox and there's only 1 message in there total.
I'm thinking because Outlook downloaded messages earlier, but the server doesn't notify the counter on the smart zone front page or the comcast.net front page.
Once I went into smart zone and logged out, the e-mail counter returned to 1, which was correct. | |
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 |  |  |  |  |  CCCarole Premium join:2008-05-29 Palos Heights, IL | Re: New Comcast.net Web You are correct in that the Comcast server did not know that you popped your e-mail to Outlook. | |
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join:2000-07-29 Chicago, IL
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| It has nothing to do with a refresh. The count was wrong even after a complete reformat of the hard disk. I Download using Windows Live Mail and don't leave a copy on the server and all my browsers refresh on exit. I'm going to stop using Live Mail for a few days and see if that has any effect and will post back here. | |
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1 edit | Re: New Comcast.net Web said by LarryE :It has nothing to do with a refresh. The count was wrong even after a complete reformat of the hard disk. I Download using Windows Live Mail and don't leave a copy on the server and all my browsers refresh on exit. I'm going to stop using Live Mail for a few days and see if that has any effect and will post back here. What does email through a client have to do with the new webpage?
Am I missing something here? -- Think outside the Fox... Opera | |
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| Re: New Comcast.net Web Because the *NEW* webpage still includes the same old broken e-mail counter as the old one. Now it's just in the upper right with different graphics. But the count is still wrong.
If your going to update something, why not fix a few bugs in the process, rather then letting them hang out there. | |
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| Re: New Comcast.net Web But Larry was describing using Windows Live to download his email. A new webpage would not affect email though a third party email client... would it?
My counter seems to still be working.
Perhaps there is a bug elsewhere that should be looked into - like POP-ing the email or maybe the email server needs to be kicked/hit with a brick. -- Think outside the Fox... Opera | |
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| Re: New Comcast.net Web Could be. I just logged in and it said 3 new, 1 unread. Go to my inbox and there's only 1 message there. Where's the 3 new?
Well Outlook 2007 at home must of downloaded it. But why doesn't the new Comcast.net front page or Smartzone actually pop into the e-mail server and grab a count, so it knows what to actually display?
Now once I go in to my inbox and back out back to the Comcast.net home page, the new "My Comcast" signon e-mail count is corrected.
This "My Comcast" signon is pretty nice, and it seems to allow my browser to remember my username and password and give me one click access to my mail, or browse the community forums. The counter is just not "POP'ing" into the mail server to pull the accurate count. I'm not sure where the number comes from. | |
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| Re: New Comcast.net Web said by cypherstream :Could be. I just logged in and it said 3 new, 1 unread. Go to my inbox and there's only 1 message there. Where's the 3 new? I forgot to answer this specific bug question. For a variety of reasons, differentiating between new and unread is proving challenging in certain use cases. So in our next major release (likely mid to late Sept) that counter will be simplified to just show the number of unread messages. This will be simpler and more reliable. -- JL Comcast | |
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 AquaSport California - Sun, Surf, Traffic Jams
join:2007-05-03 California
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| The old page was easy enough to navigate and looked modern. WHY DON'T THEY WORK ON CUSTOMER SERVICE INSTEAD? Ugh, Comcast's customer service is a pile of steamy, smelly, runny You Know What. Even if the technicians can't fix anything, at least they don't smell like I would think that they do. | |
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@comcast.net | If you have been on comcast any amount of time you would realize the so called new page is the same layoff they had about 3 years ago. It's nothing new. | |
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join:2005-05-25 Richmond, IN
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| Yahoo new look. | |
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