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More…Lycos's Tripod blog and Web site platform offers free and customizable blogs and photo galleries. The software has improved much in the last year, and users can now blog via e-mail, maintain group blogs, create photo galleries, and edit templates and designs. The site's overall design, however, harks back to the premillennium Web era: All blog control options are lumped on a single page, rather than separated by category tabs for management, design, and posting functions. Moreover, both the control panel and blog pages are frustratingly slow to load.
Lycos Tripod
| Performance | Fair |
| Design | Fair |
| Comments on posts | Yes |
| Categories | Yes |
| Pinging | Yes |
| Trackbacks | No |
| RSS feeds | Yes |
| Atom feeds | No |
| Search function | No |
| Blogroll/lists | Yes |
| News aggregation | No |
| Mobile blogging | Yes |
| Photo galleries | Yes |
| Visitor registration | Yes |
| Moderation | Yes |
| Comment notification | Yes |
| CAPTCHAs | No |
| Number of provided templates | 9 |
| Multiple authors | Yes |
| Image uploading | Yes |
| Video uploading | Yes |
| Amount of image/data storage provided | 20MB |
| Password protection | Yes |
| Site traffic analysis | Yes |
| Logs | No |
| Advertising capability | Yes |
Pros
Offers plenty of customizable blogs
Cons
Loads much too slowly
Tripod
Tripod Review, by Ryan Singel January 22, 2007
Using an external domain requires an upgrade to the $9-per-month account, which gives you a paltry 50MB of storage but a decent 10GB of bandwidth (data that can be downloaded from your blog each month). Lycos offers a selection of basic templates, but they are garishly heavy on background images; a decent Web designer could fix them, though, as Lycos allows you to customize templates with your own code.
Lycos also offers free client-side software, called Qumana, which will let you post ads on your blog. The software is a great way to speed up your publishing, and can work with almost any blog hosting provider.
Posting a new entry entails negotiating a visually busy WYSIWYG form that features more than 30 icons. The page has a few nice touches, though; you can include and edit audio and video, for instance, or switch to HTML view.
Unfortunately, the Tripod platform is painfully slow. Opening a new-post window took as long as 20 seconds when I tried it. Tripod blogs themselves also loaded significantly slower than those running on any of the other platforms I tested.
It's a shame. If Lycos could take user interface lessons from other platforms and speed up its back end, it would have a chance at truly reinvigorating the once-mighty Tripod community.
Ryan Singel
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