the state of dmoz

I typically can't stand people that just jump on bandwagon for some particular school of thought. it's definitely quite trendy to hate dmoz- there are long queues, corruption in a lot of the cats, and pompous editors to deal with. I never really bought into it (and I'm definitely not going to try to convince you to, either).

some problems in dmoz are never going to go away; there will always be angry webmasters that are convinced it's impossible to get their site in, there will always be people trying to voice how corrupted the place has become, and there will always be queues. however, dmoz does need to start dealing with some of the technical problems in a more reasonable manor.

in case you're not aware for what's going on, over the past two weeks or so, not one site has been added to the existing queues. there's no mention of this anywhere on the public site. these submissions may have been lost completely (they're not quite sure yet).

I just hate to think of someone submitting their site, waiting six months, asking in resource-zone what the status is, and them finding out it never made it into the queue to begin with.