My bookmark bar became a battlefield between two travel planning sites

I had about 60 bookmarks saved for a trip to Portland last spring, and I narrowed it down to two sites I kept going back to. One was a detailed blog with 10 year old restaurant reviews and the other was a newer forum where locals actually argued about which food carts were still open. I went with the blog because it looked prettier and had nice photos, but after three days of following old recommendations I ended up at two closed shops and one place that had changed owners twice. The forum was ugly with no images and terrible formatting, but the information was actually current and honest. I finally deleted the blog bookmark and kept just the forum one, but I lost a whole afternoon to dead ends because I picked the wrong one first. Has anyone else had a bookmark you held onto for years despite it giving you bad info over and over?

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tarak1710d ago

Ugh, that sounds so frustrating, I've definitely been burned by picking the pretty option too.

lisa_wilson8710d ago

Right? The "pretty option" always gets me too. I grabbed this cute little succulent once cause it looked perfect on the shelf. Turns out it needed like zero water and basically died in a week. Learned my lesson the hard way. Now I read the labels before I even look at the plant.