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But clicking on a player's name on the roster just brings you to a pretty boring blank page. Can we edit this (if we can, I have no idea how)? It would be cool to mention player nicknames, community projections, and all of that.

Just some local flavour.

I think I should be able to adjust and be happy with this within a week.

Thanks SBNDevs

made me think of something I recently tried for the first time. Anderson Valley Brewing Company. It was about $4 a bottle for a 22 or 24oz at a Beaverton, OR Hagen for the Oatmeal Stout and it was delicious.

I also realized that I'd rather buy one $7 24oz beer instead of a $7 6 pack. I don't know if it is an age or parent thing or what. I guess I'm not interested in getting wasted, but a little buzz with good flavor is what I like now.

embed a youtube video... or is that no longer an option?

for those of you who hate the term "FanPosts", keep in mind that we've grown accustomed to terms as silly as "Diaries", "Blog", and "Fantasy" baseball.

You'll get used to it in no time.

but only Graham has his email listed there. Way to be fearless Graham, that's the backbone of leadership!

As soon as I find a way to turn on widescreen I'll be pretty happy.

I would also like to thnk Trei and the gang for hanging out and checking out our feedback.

Now that I've played with it a little while I just wanted to comment on a few things.

Auto-Refresh: Man, this rocks. Being able to see comments without having to manually refresh all the time is an awesome change of pace and provides a different dynamic to game threads which are basically like chat rooms anyhow. Also good for hot topics. I've really gotten used to the 'z' command to check out new comments.

Also, nice to see new comments pop up as I'm preparing my posts. There's a big difference between seeing what is said at the time and seeing what is being said as it happens.

Mandatory Preview: I've talked about it a few times but honestly, just about any post that's longer than a few words I use Preview anyway and I ALWAYS use it when I post a picture or a link. On that front, this new system is a massive upgrade. For me, making previews optional would only be a marginal upgrade. I'm okay with this.

FanPosts: I don't really care. "Diaries" are no better than "FanPosts" to me. Don't bother me none. Next.

Auto-Refresh rate: Developers currently set this to 20 seconds. So far so good. Works great on non-game threads. I'll see how good this is on the opening day game thread with TEX vs. SEA. I still think everyone is better off with 10 seconds unless it bogs down the system but I'll see how it does myself first.

I'll probably have thoughts of the rest of the stuff as I use it more.

When you link to a comment or subthread, instead of opening by itself, it opens and loads the entire thread before moving to the right comment.

We link to comments like this a lot, and having to load an entire game thread just to see 5 words of Robert being really angry is going to be a pain in the ass.

It feels slicker and smoother. The comments handling - autorefresh, and the keyboard shortcuts - is really nice.

I actually don't mind the yellow highlighting of new comments. It's not really a screaming yellow, it's more of a soft post-it yellow, which is pretty typical for "alert" messages. Anything darker than the yellow might make the text hard to read unless you invert the text, which might be pretty annoying.

It's also nice that I've done all of one Dia ... I mean, FanPost, and yet my login was reserved.

Graham - nice avatar choice.

am I allowed to upload one now? I have avatars turned off, but I really don't like the default one on my profile page and I'd like to change it.

Incidentally, I ask permission because when I rejoined the blog there was a fairly strong warning about using them...not that it seems to have stopped some people. >_>;

I notice that I can post an img URL, but I can't post a link to the original. I upload a lot to Flickr these days, and I'd like to just keep files managed there, but according to the Flickr TOS, I need to be able to link back to the original. I s'pose I could put the link in the description, but it'd be nice if the IMG URL field allowed for limited HTML (i.e. A HREF).

Mitch Hedberg joke

A beer for the first person who gets it

Can you claim two accounts from the old format, and then merge them into one account on the new one?

If I am on the page, watching comments come in, click on somebody's profile, then click "back" to come back to the comment thread, the page I come back to is an older version of the page I left.

In other words, the comments I'd previously seen flood in are missing when I come back. Then they show up again as new a little while later.

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.12 on XP SP2.

though it's not really that big of a deal. I can always just tab open someone's profile, rather than navigating away from the current page.

This whole blog system is pretty impressive

I love this new uploading of comments! Is this AJAX?

(FYI: I know almost nothing about programming)

Never heard of it. What is the difference?

This is a lingering problem from the old site, and I thought it went away with the new upload, but apparently not: it just took a while to show up.

When I'm on my work browser (IE 6.0), LL will randomly crash my browser while loading a page. When this first happened, I originally pegged the problem as a bad script in one of the ads, Jeff originally assumed it was an external poll that had been posted, but it's actually continued since then, to where I stopped loading this blog at work because re-opening my browser and re-logging into things was so annoying. This only happens on IE 6.0. I've managed to get far enough this time to load the main page and post this comment, but I'd be that another 4-5 page loads and it'll happen again.

And now, here it is again. Perhaps, among the other tasks, someone can look into the flash ads and see which of the ads would cause such a thing.

Thank god the development team has fixed a lot of the annoying bugs.

Just a few more tweaks and we'll have ourselves a nice little place here.

Is there a way to build the comment section so that clicking on the new comment count ("4 new" or whatever the number happens to be) on the main page takes you to the first new comment, instead of to the first comment in the thread?

By the way, Trei, I really, really am impressed with the transition and how it's been handled - if I could only get the wide view to persist I'd be a happy bastard indeed.

I had a bit of a problem when registering, it was my own fault, and Trei and the guys got to it lightening fast and fixed it for me.

First impressions are important to me. I didn't think anything would take away the bitter taste of this new layout but my first impression of Trei and his crew has more than done that.

Excited to see how this thing develops!

I just hit "c" on another site, expecting it to take me to the next comment...

i know this is going to ruin your lives forever, but i will not longer be known as 'Scruffy Righty' due to the whole universial ID thingy.

it was a fun ride. this is my new name. and because i can just visit you guys from a drop down menu under my name now, i might visit more often because i don't actually have to type www.lookoutlanding.com in my address bar anymore. it's just a simple click away.

I didn't realize if you turned off Avatars it turns off all avatars. So the people that hate them can completely ignore them

Second entry in 'news' reads as follows:

"Seattle Mariners 2008 Preview

That plus the addition of pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre and a better than average bullpen spearheaded by closer J.J. Putz has fans in the Emerald City thinking playoffs once again."

I'm sure everyone sees the problem with this.

So this is sort of like Slashdot now?

1. FanShots. Why do we need to break up the content that was previously all in Diaries? Now I need to look in two places.

2. Auto-updating comments. First, that little pop-up at the bottom of my screen is distracting. Second, I now CAN'T TELL which comments I've read. On the old site, I could load the comment page, even if it was hundreds of comments long, read them, and then refresh to find the new ones. Now if new comments get added above where I was reading, I can't find them (because everything is still yellow). But if I refresh, that new comment isn't yellow because it was added while I was viewing the page.

The auto-updating comments are - AAAAGGH! - and the little pop-up message repositions my screen every time it happens,even while I'm typing a comment. STOP THAT! It did it again. And again. That's five times just in the last minute.

My point was, the auto-updating comments make it vastly harder to read a high-traffic thread, especially if you haven't been there the entire time. Game threads are going to be a disaster.

that comes up saying new comments, click on it an it brings you to the new comments

Any way to merge them? I've claimed 2 blogs with one and three blogs with the other.

But I went to Matthew's Opening Day Event post to bump it, as it's now down the page... and just noticed you can't bump threads. Can this be enabled?

(BTW I'm posting away from work for the moment, browser's Firefox. No crashes, so the ad crashes are definitely an IE thing.)

Its a neat idea. If we could just have pics in the fanposts as well things would be neat-o.

They stop threading when they get more than 19 tiers deep.

If you'll recall, I predicted this would happen when we were first told of the fixed width. This is a major problem - it makes it impossible to follow discussions when thy get realyl tangential.

I honestly can't believe the collective bitch-fest from this community regarding this upgrade. I'm a Rangers fan and swing by here occasionally after reading LSB. I've always respected the quality of dialog that took place here, and wow, the tantrums that we saw (see?) were really beneath all you guys.

Have a terrible season ;)

I've been having problems with CXZ working after I vote in a poll.

in the FanPosts sidebar could be written in a colour, maybe red, so it would stand out. It's a lot harder to find FanPosts with comments I haven't read than it was with the old Diaries system.

but can I remove the avatar from my profile so other people don't see one associated with me?

So when someone posts a comment near the top of the thread while I'm at the bottom, and I hit Z, the comment becomes unmarked but I don't jump up to where it is It's been happening pretty consistently for me.

Would it be possible to have a way to mark all comments as read at once?

We have auto refreshing comments, yes?

-BUT-

What if we had auto updating the front page, where it says XX comments, xx new.

where the number of comments and new ones auto updated, as well...on the front page.

no?

yes?

A word of warning (since, IIRC, your game threads get pretty active)... as I discovered in the super-busy AN game thread last night this morning, if you are moving through new comments with Z or C, it often misses new replies that were added to older comments "upthread" from where the majority of the activity is happening. There were several comments I had to go find by scrolling up.

Diaries are sometimes showing the wrong number of comments when you refresh the main page

On the old site, if I was reading comments and followed a link somewhere, when I returned to the comments using my BACK button I would get exactly the same page I was reading without losing the NEW designations on messages farther down the page.

But here, presumably because the yellow shading is all java-y or something, if I do that now (say to check out someone's profile) and return, all of the comments are now marked as read, even though I haven't refreshed the page.

That's not great.

Now there's some weird stuff going on at the bottom of the home page. Doesn't look like it's on purpose

have a link on the right side of the page with the new comments, etc. Is it possible to add something similar for the posts from the front page?

Also, if you mark a comment as being read with the z or x command, shouldn't the number of new comments listed at the top of the page decrease accordingly?

It seems like the new layout crams too much information into such a small part of the screen (I have a widescreen monitor at a high resolution). It's just way too busy and there's such a small part of the screen now that is dedicated to actual content that I have to constantly scroll to read articles, "FanPosts" and their comments. It's literally 5" of the screen on the homepage that has the main article text on it. The site needs to be able to adjust its content width to fill an entire screen like USSM and any other respectable site does. That'll make the outlay seem less busy and add more whitespace that the site is now sorely lacking in.