New A2K Coolnesses

After trying something Sozobe described in an other thread, I could begin to see the coolness of tagging. Tags will definitely relieve the moderators of so much work. (By the way, modertors: thanks for having put in all that work for all those years!)

Sort the homepage by "most voted", look at the last page, and -- abracadabra! -- here's a bunch of spam, right there at the bottom, ready to be swiped into the dustbin in one quick move. No more searching through the list for the moderators. No more loop through the reporting process for anyone.

There is also a number of threads down there that are legitimate, but emotional and strongly worded. So they were voted down by people who apparently don't distinguish between "I disagree with you" and "you're out of line". These threads, too, are right there in a neat package just above the spam, ready to be voted up by Robin Hood / Devil's Advocate types like myself.

Very neat!

On a more superficial note: I like that you now set the body text in a serif font (Georgia, I guess), and that you're reserving the sans serif fonts for headings, buttons, and the like. It makes the threads easier to read for me.

I love the new typefont, and the general clean look of the site.

I like the bunnies bum

dag wrote-



Oh--I don't know.

I was pretty nifty in my prime at shinning up a drainpipe to catch a vista of Elsie putting her stockings on in the window.

I gotta say, so far I'm totally addicted to the new site.

You may (or may not ) have noticed, but the last couple of months I've stayed away from a2k much as I could. (Spending muchos time on Flickr instead..) I'd already become kinda dragged back the last two weeks or so, but was kinda angry at myself for it.

But now! I feel like I've been here non-stop since the re-launch. I dont know whether it's because of all its cool new toys (eh, features), or just because figuring out a new system itself is fun, or because some of the new features (ignore and the like) keep me out of the most annoying-yet-timewasting stuff, or because stuff like diving into the tagging and voting had me re-discovering old threads...

OK, so all of the above, obviously.

Still, after like 2 1/2 days non-stop here I guess I should start, you know, returning to real-life and all..

Figuring **** out is definitely addictive.

Twenty posts per page, and it doesn't slow things down a bit. I'm on dial up, by the way.

Liking the swiftyness of the bbc codes thing, no longer some kind of time trial.

Not so superficial for moi... I love the type choices.

I know!!

I couldn't really check in yesterday (busy) and I felt Very Deprived.

Just spent forever on a long-ass post but having fun zooming around and catching up.

One thing I AM liking is the ability to catch up by seeing what other people have been up to. (Via their "my tags" or "my posts.")

I'm enjoying people's profiles. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like more are filled out than usual. And I like the larger photos there.

Well, one of the good things for me is that the new posts page isn't zonking back to zero every so often, by virtue of the site or my dsl.. it's one of those things that you really appreciate, like when a loud noise stops..

You're not wrong, the big difference is that you can use bbcode on the profile now. So you could put pictures, links etc in your member description. Someone should go bump up phoenix's thread to get people to try to do something creative with it.

Aha, I'll see if I can find that. (Looking for stuff is good for me.. just tell me if it is one of her old long-ago ones or something recent.)

Got it..

I agree, ehBeth - the speed IS brilliant! I'm on dial-up, too.
This is terrific!

I never realized how efficient it would be to decline a thread. It is not dislike of the person, but uninterest in the subject matter. Once I removed many of the threads of which I had no desire to participate, I found that I was flitting about A2K at warp speed!

Oh, I just found color and all the edit buttons

There ya go...!