I’ve been wondering why Thesaurus.com has taken a turn for the lame recently. A truewriter shouldn’t need a thesaurus–but a braindead, sleep deprived one with a baby really does! When my mind draws a blank (pretty much all the time), I would just hop over to thesaurus.com for a multitude of word choice options. But those days are over. To continue the illusion of a big (Big. See, that’s the best I could do without a thesaurus) vocabulary they want me to suscribe to their premiumservice. But after the Vista Print debacle I hesitate subscribing to anything anymore. Guess I’ll have to actually use a real thesaurus again, if I even still have one. Like, the kind in a book, with pages, that you turn.
4 responses so far ↓
awalkabout // May 2, 2008 at 10:09 pm |
A real book? Do they still make those???
Tom // May 13, 2008 at 1:34 pm |
Just FYI: I don’t think the old content is available on the premium service. Where had you gotten that idea?
k.d. // May 15, 2008 at 5:51 pm |
I noticed that the free content had changed, didn’t seem to generate as abundantly, which led me to assume that if I were to subscribe to the premium service, that I would have access to better/more content.
Tom // May 17, 2008 at 9:42 pm |
No, unfortunately, the good stuff isn’t on the premium service either.
Basically, they ruined what was one of the most helpful writing tools on the web. Nobody can figure out what’s going on over there, and the folks in charge are being frustratingly silent about it.
Here’s the company’s blog: http://www.lexico.com/blog/index.php. Lots of fellow complainers there.