Once again, I have to say it, you all are amazing!! It took you less than 5 days to push our reviews from 80 to over 1,100 and drive our overall rating up to 96% from 1,200 votes.
You smashed through our goal of adding 1,000 new reviews and with two days left we we'll surely get some, as they say in Louisiana, lagniappe (pronounced lanyap) -- a little something extra -- and maybe hit 1,200 reviews.
Keep spreading the word and let folks know that this is just the first step in taking Firefox to the masses. This first effort has been a smashing success, well beyond what we imagined when we first started talking about it. Thanks to everyone who posted reviews and helped to spread the word on blogs, and in conversation and emails with family, friends, co-workers, and classmates. This is grass roots at its best! Laissez les bon temps rouler! :D
Posted by asa at July 12, 2004 08:10 PMAsa, you're also amazing. hehe you managed to leverage the growing firefox community and achieved a goal without mozilla.org putting download.com links on the front page or going over to slashdot. That would've been too easy :)
Posted by: arielb on July 12, 2004 08:37 PMYou know, this makes me realize something. If there's at least 1,100 people out there that're so satisfied with Firefox BUT didn't say so before this "take action" idea was put to us...I wonder just how many more there are out there that haven't voted or rated (whether it be due to not hearing about it or be it due to not wanting to sign up with a place just to be able to review a product or something else). I mean, this 1100 is really only a fraction...the fraction that's heard of this idea AND willing to put some time into it.
Posted by: Devon on July 12, 2004 09:51 PMOpera the Counterattack?
Download.com's Opera page now have 137 votes, while most other software only have a few votes...
I of all people wasn't able to give a review. i tried to register-really hard- and I don't know what but it didnt work.
Posted by: arielb on July 12, 2004 11:43 PMIt's "les bons temps" ;-)
Posted by: [ct] on July 13, 2004 08:51 AM