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from the prevention-goes-a-long-way dept.
So, every once in awhile, if things have been quiet, I like to pop a post seeing what the general feelings of the community are towards the site, seeing what we could do better, etc. I think its been a few months since the last time I posted in Meta, so I think this is a good time to get a pulse on the community, and provide a venue to get any feedback (good or bad).
On the staff side, I know things have been relatively quiet over the summer due to most of us being busy with life and such, which is why we haven't made a major site upgrade since the original rehash upgrade at the end of May. For myself, I've been working at a new job, and dealing with a fair bit of non-Soylent related things to the point that I really only have the time or energy to post, and occasional check in, and I'd like to thank the rest of the staff, and mrcoolbp in particular for holding down the fort for me.
Anyway, in contrast to my usual posts, I'm going to cut this off here, and will be looking forward to your comments below.
73 from NCommander
(Score: 2, Insightful) by throwaway28 on Tuesday November 17 2015, @04:50PM
I used to be heavy reader of that other site, which must not be named. But, they've gradually broken compatibility with older browsers, and rendering has become increasingly difficult. Soylentnews; just works. Even in stone age browsers, everything rendered perfectly and effortlessly; well . . . 364 days out of the year. There were some weird visual quirks on last years' april 1st page. ☺
As an introvert who can't talk to anyone; I've really enjoyed the front page visibility of the journal section. Feels like a megaphone of just the right size, to fit the lips of someone who normally can't talk. Much more fun than my previous 3 attempts at blogging (lj ancient, lj 2nd account 2011; self hosted solely 'cause lj's robots.txt forbids crawling, 2011). Even though my webserver is currently down, even though the latency was like 6 months; that last one is still up on archive.org. One of the more popular posts (not sure why) was http://web.archive.org/web/20120212091129/http://ohcamacj.dyndns.org:8088/~jonathan/ljtest/posts/post_2012-02-11.html [archive.org]
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Thursday November 19 2015, @01:01AM
April 1st is kinda a special deal for me and the staff. Its the one day we can be silly and do stuff we don't normally do. It's a massive stress relief, and while I know a vocal part of the community piss about it each year, it lets us have something to look forward to beyond the daily grind of the site.
That being said, I'm curious how the vt100 theme broke compatibility for you (the theme is available year round, we just changed the site default for that date).
Still always moving