They Are Scribd

mynameishere · on July 9, 2008

The selling point: No more downloading; you can view everything in your browser.

Huh? What have I been doing up till now?

breck · on July 9, 2008

Your browser contains an entire copy of the Internet. Haven't you noticed the immense amount of RAM Firefox and IE take up nowadays?

alaskamiller · on July 9, 2008

Being miserable. Rejoice at this new bright future of no more downloading.

bayareaguy · on July 10, 2008

Has anyone done a good comparison of Scribd vs PDF taking into account things like latency and browsing over a slow connection? I never even think about the time it takes to download a PDF on my DSL line but I can imagine that Scribd might be better at letting you see just the first page of a document over a bad connection.

schoudha · on July 9, 2008

Did they really get 21 million users in May! That's crazy - it's competitive with Digg.

Compete shows them in the low millions though...

ericb · on July 9, 2008

Hmm... I tried to look at some of the popular documents, but they come up empty (gray background only). Can anyone else confirm they see the same thing?

jasonbentley · on July 10, 2008

It could be your Flash player. Make sure you have the latest update.

ivankirigin · on July 9, 2008

I noted the same thing on FireFox 3, but camino worked just fine.

ed · on July 9, 2008

Hey Ivan and Eric,

Does the document re-appear when you change the zoom level? If so, this is a known issue and a fix should be deployed soon.

In any case please feel free to email me if you ever discover a bug we may not be be aware of (ed at scribd.com). Thanks, guys!

ivankirigin · on July 10, 2008

Thanks. Works now in FF3 - so I can't really be of much help.

Mistone · on July 9, 2008

latimes showing some ycombinator love of late. good write up, captures the unique side of this cool company. sounds like a fun place to work.

kaos · on July 9, 2008

i love scribd, more for the comunity (groups, friends, comments, related docs, etc) than for the ipaper itself.

but i'm afraid that if the site become too popular they will be teased by copyright, and ruin the whole site (for my personal usage).