I’m sick. I feel like hell. Be nice to Tommy.
It’s daytime, so maybe try f.lux (but not for just THIS website, for everything). It makes things so much nicer on the eyes. I like 5600k during the daytime and 4600 at night.
I will cut you.
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I’m sick. I feel like hell. Be nice to Tommy.
It’s daytime, so maybe try f.lux (but not for just THIS website, for everything). It makes things so much nicer on the eyes. I like 5600k during the daytime and 4600 at night.
I will cut you.
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SiubhanDuinne
Is that Steve, or a generic Maine Coon?
I am always nice to Tommy, and think he did a terrific job on the redesign. Yes, it may take some getting-used to, and yes, there are still a few glitches, but overall I think it’s clean and attractive. Well done to the team!
John Cole
@SiubhanDuinne: That is Steve.
Sandia Blanca
Quick, somebody make John a sandwich!
CaseyL
Agree with SiubhanDuinne – Tommy did a great job. When I think of all the moving parts comprising this site, and the tetchiness of we-the-constant-correspondents, I think the redesign team should get all the gold stars and chocolate cakes.
Regarding the glarey white – I just turned the brightness down some, and that did the trick.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Can’t use f.lux on the iPhone or iPad because I don’t want to have to jailbreak them. But I’ve been using it on my laptop for years now and I do like it. It just sucks for internet shopping since it changes the color of everything.
gogol's wife
Tommy the web designer isn’t the same as Tommy who lives in Missouri and whom people gang up on sometimes for no reason, is he?
dogwood
@gogol’s wife:
That Tommy lives in Illinois and I don’t know if it’s the same guy.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Also, too, for the BJ Hamilfans, a story and photo from last night’s “Hamilton” fundraiser for the Democratic Party. Sadly, Hamilfan #1 (aka POTUS) had to miss the actual show this time — he’s only seen it twice, you guys!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/obama-and-democrats-to-fundraise-at-a-showing-of-hamilton#.nwvg6NjQq
Gin & Tonic
@gogol’s wife: The same.
gogol's wife
@dogwood:
But near St. Louis, right?
And by the way, there’s been a great lack of discussion of the glorious victory by the KC Royals on here.
Benw
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gogol's wife
@Gin & Tonic:
Oh, then kudos to you Tommy. I hate change of all kinds, so it would be impossible to please me.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@gogol’s wife:
The same Tommy. He actually lives in downstate IL, but close enough to the MO border that the closest major media market is St. Louis.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Clash of the would be titans
also, in that Koch interview (ETA: the one with Morning Squint and his sidekick), one of them (does it matter which?) compared himself to Martin Luther on trial.
TaMara (BHF)
@dogwood: Same guy. Who has the patience of a saint even attempting this.
I installed f.lux but am probably going to have to uninstall it. I can’t imagine trying to edit the food photos with it. But it really is easier on the eyes.
Felonius Monk
Why is Steve looking so pissed? Are you disobeying him again, John?
dogwood
@gogol’s wife:
Yeah, I think he’s somewhere in southern rural Illinois.
gogol's wife
@Felonius Monk:
See, he doesn’t look pissed to me. That’s just catspeak for “Pay attention to my beauteousness!”
D58826
@Sandia Blanca: qUICK GIVE STEVE A SANDWICH
gogol's wife
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
I’m hoping this influences Malia to go to Wes.
West of the Cascades
Installing f.lux has made my life better, so I can no longer complain about my computer being too bright at night. Thanks, Cole!!
TaMara (BHF)
@Felonius Monk: Steve is pissed, if I remember right, because John left him outside because he was bitching for food for like an hour.
dogwood
@TaMara (BHF):
Already knew he had the patience of a saint for all the mean-spirited crap he has endured off and on on this site.
cmorenc
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Well, whichever Koch it was actually got the comparison very close to accurate – except the correct comparison is to Lex Luther, not Martin Luther. But with that bit of misunderstanding straightened out, well-said Mr. Koch.
gogol's wife
@dogwood:
This also explains why CS is so dissatisfied with the redesign.
Sorry, I didn’t put two and two together.
Ridnik Chrome
Since this is an open thread, I have a (possibly stupid) cooking question. I often make pasta with tomatoes, olives and capers. The recipe starts with sauteeing sliced garlic in one third of a cup of olive oil in a skillet. Once the garlic is golden-brown, you add a cup and a half of diced tomatoes. I usually use the canned variety. Here is my question: how to keep the hot oil from sizzling up and splattering all over the stove when I add the tomatoes? Sorry if it’s a dumb question. Cooking is something I’ve only recently started learning to do, and there are probably a lot of very basic things that I don’t know about.
gogol's wife
@Ridnik Chrome:
Can you do it very slowly, maybe start by spooning it out of the can rather than dumping it all in at once?
Felonius Monk
@Ridnik Chrome: Drain the canned tomatoes very well and turn down the heat.
MomSense
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
The Schuyler sisters did a welcome video for the DNC.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-The-Schuyler-Sisters-Welcome-the-DNC-to-HAMILTON-Obama-Returns-Tonight-20151102#
Mj_Oregon
@TaMara (BHF): f.lux has a one hour disable feature that’s really useful for working with photos. I’ve used it for several years.
Roger Moore
@TaMara (BHF):
We know it, because he knew what a vicious band of snarling jackals we all are.
Josie
Reading this from John calms my spirit and lets me know all is right with the world.
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Well said, Trumpster!
SiubhanDuinne
@John Cole:
He is a very handsome fellow. And knows it.
dogwood
@Ridnik Chrome:
You’ve got the heat too high. Galic doesn’t need to be sautéed over high heat; it will easily burn and turn bitter. And you don’t need high heat for tomatoes either.
Ridnik Chrome
@gogol’s wife: @Felonius Monk: Tried both methods, still end up with oil all over the place. Also tried tipping the pan so that the tomatoes don’t go directly in the oil at first. Seems like there’s gotta be a better way…
Roger Moore
@Ridnik Chrome:
The easiest solution is to take the pot off the stove for a minute or two so the oil has a chance to cool down a bit before you add the tomatoes.
shomi
Coles website contrast ration is 250% and his solution is the get everyone to install f.lux.
Classic wrong way libertarian curious fat bastard Christie lover Rand Paul has some good ideas Cole.
gogol's wife
@Ridnik Chrome:
And isn’t that a lot of oil?
Scott
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): While you still need to jailbreak to install f.lux on an iPhone, if you’re running iOS 9 or better, you can “sideload” an app that is somewhat similar to f.lux without jailbreaking. See this page for a description.
MomSense
@dogwood: @Ridnik Chrome:
I’m going to go with dogwood and suggest that the heat is way too high. The garlic is going to taste bitter as opposed to mellow if you cook it too hot and for too long.
I’m thinking just a bit of oil, and low heat until the garlic just gets soft and starts to turns color. You are heating the oil up to searing meat temperature which I think is way too hot for garlic and not necessary for a nice sauce.
Adding the tomatoes with a large spoon instead of all at once into a pan that is not so hot should be a big improvement. Tomato sauce is always on the messy side, however. It just is.
MomSense
@gogol’s wife:
Yes, I think so too.
Joseph Nobles
Whoa, have I not clicked over to this website for that long? Seriously?
Nice new design, John. And I think I will check out f.lux, thanks.
Ridnik Chrome
@gogol’s wife: That’s what the recipe calls for. I got it out of a vegetarian cook book that belonged to somebody I used to live with. It’s a really delicious dish, but kind of messy to cook. Or at least it is the way I’ve been doing it…
TaMara (BHF)
@Ridnik Chrome: Here’s what I would do – as soon as the oil is heated (not too hot, because charred garlic is rather bitter), add the garlic, turn the heat to low and let the garlic saute, soften and get golden, then add a bit of the tomato juice, to start to temper things, then you should be good to go without much splatter, especially if you go slow.
But if you have your olive oil at a smoking point, anything you add will splatter.
jheartney
I imagine Tommy knows this, but the Blog layout version of the site is broken; just shows shortcodes. Also, I’d have to say that the “Our Most Recent Posts” section doesn’t add any value. It gives most of its space to something you can already see at the bottom of your monitor (the first post), and the rest don’t really work as teases since they consist of a too-small-to-decipher photo, the same date as today, and just the post headline with no tease copy. Most blogs that want to do this just have a sidebar widget showing the headlines, which would work as well while not taking up your most valuable screen space with useless and redundant information. Sorry if you’re proud of this section and hate me for criticizing it. (This is why I was using the Blog layout version, BTW.)
Another Holocene Human
@dogwood: IL and MO share a border down by Saint Lou. There is a train. Tommy’s corner of IL is very red. Has what Chicagoans reckon for a Southern accent.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@MomSense:
You can be my Vice President! I’ll treat you better than John Adams was.
Omnes Omnibus
I think there was a communication failure at the beginning of the roll out. Many of the complaints have been about the comment system; as I understand it the current comment system is a placeholder until the actual new system is fully prepared. If that had been made clear in the initial FP post about the roll out, things may have gone more smoothly. The fact that John and Tommy knew this and commenters did not has led, IMO, to some unnecessary acrimony.
Scratch
I’m trying to imagine what the questions will be like for future Republican debates:
1. Mr. Cruz, how soon after you are inaugurated do you plan to have Obama arrested for treason?
2. Mr. Trump, how soon will we start deporting illegals?
3. Mr. Carson, since you are a renowned brain surgeon, do you think the Hildabeast needs a lobotomy?
4. JEB!, how much of a traitor are you for knowing how to speak Spanish? Why isn’t English good enough for you?
5. Mr. Rubio, please tell us about how you escaped the hellhole known as Cuba? How proud of you to have escaped communism like that?
bemused
When site went dark in last thread, I thought for a sec that the discontented here were attempting a coup.
Matt McIrvin
@Omnes Omnibus: One thing that has been unclear to me is whether this statement about the comment system is just about the comment editor, or the visual display of comment threads as well.
Mike J
You think people are insane because of the changes here? Everyone on twitter is losing their shit because they changed the icon for “like” from a star to a heart. Atrios says it proves nobody at twitter uses twitter. People are comparing it to the Jeb! campaign.
satby
I’m back to looking for a job in IT because I’m sick of barely scraping by, so this is me.
Notice all those shiny IT credentials? I’m as proud of mine as Tommy is of his. And I deeply resent being told that my eyes are deficient (20/20 actually) or that I don’t adapt to change (I do more change in a week than either Tommy or John does in a year). I don’t just make soap and save dogs. And when I give user acceptance feedback it’s on point and actionable. But I’m done, everything’s been noted. Understand the metric for complaints though (yes, there is one) for every complaint you hear or see, there are 10x that many thinking it.
Because as I wrote below but my internet went out
:>And for all of you assuming that some of us don’t “like change”, well,
>fuck you very much. I did “change” in IT as a profession. I adjusted to
>the new site in 2 minutes, and without needing to watch a video. I didn’t
>adjust to what was a degraded user experience and I pointed that out. To
>blame the users for pointing out what it to them a less pleasurable
>(bordering on painful) experience is kind of jerky. Your blog and all
>that, but the reason it’s a big, often cited blog is your user base.
>Several of your users are tech people and we know the difference between
>good and bad changes, and needed and unneeded user pain. The days of the
>techies announcing “because I say so” actually were over in the early
>oughts”
Tommy Young
@gogol’s wife: Yeah that would kind of be me, near St. Louis but on the IL side.
And thank you for all the nice comments. Later today going to give it one more try to find a grey that isn’t too gray but a little more gray than this.
Omnes Omnibus
@Matt McIrvin: Well, that would be part of the communication failure.
Tommy Young
@Matt McIrvin: Well here is what is happening if you want details. I get there is a huge space between comments. You don’t see it, because you are not logged in on our backend, but there is a shit load of social media/sharing icons. Again you see what space, I see these flipping icons. John gave me a budget to purchase some plugins and not use just free ones.
I got rid of all the “free” social media plugins they were using and these darn icons won’t go away. Clear my disk cache they are gone for like 15 seconds. So once I get rid of these, gosh knows how, the spacing won’t be an issue.
As to the engine or the system. We have something that “rocks.” We’re working on it. In fact at this very moment we’re running all 3,657,568 comments this site has to made sure it can handle our needs moving foward, but also back into the past.
Have faith folks, have faith.
satby
@jheartney: Could you repeat the suggestions you gave Tommy for background colors a day ago? He’s mentioned he doesn’t read comments and I believe you had very specific ones.
Tommy Young
@Another Holocene Human: Actually very blue, well my District. Until the last election my House seat has been held by a Democrat for 70 straight years. All around me, deep, deep red. Well very much like rural MO.
satby
@Omnes Omnibus: Or possibly you just don’t do a discretionary rollout until you have the functionality you need for a blog where the main draw is…. the comments.
But you know, I’m old.
satby
@Tommy Young: Your link still goes to a 403 error.
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Gin & Tonic
@Tommy Young: You may know this, but every FP post now has a first line of text that says “Example Top Text.”
Omnes Omnibus
@satby: Let’s just say that, because of my history with Tommy, I am working very hard at being open minded and patient.
Tommy Young
@satby: Hey, we made a total dupe of this site that is running on a test server. Maybe a couple conversations happened where I suggested we allow some people from here to come over and “kick the tires” and give us input before we launch live here. You know just saying that might have happened :).
PigInZen
What, are you now a licensed agent for this? You’re getting a cut from every referral aren’t you? This is how you plan to pay for this redesign, isn’t it? By forcing us to use this software to read your site, correct?
Bastard.
Tommy Young
@satby: I do read comments and we are using one of them a few shades darker.
Tommy Young
@satby: My link is gone until I reinstall the site on a new server.
@Gin & Tonic: I didn’t notice that so thanks. That is a litle plugin I just turned on so I can start putting in a few Google AdSense ads.
Amir Khalid
@Scratch:
Those are very obviously gotcha questions, which the candidates would never stand for.
Under the new rules, candidates won’t be asked questions at all. Instead, moderators are to serenade them with harps and fill their ears with sweet nothings. Instead of standing at lecterns, the candidates shall recline on the softest, fluffiest pillows made in China. If a moderator’s words to a candidate are not sufficiently sweet, or not sufficiently nothing, or if the moderator is not a harpist, the moderator will be punished severely. If each candidate does not receive a 20 percentage-point bump in the national polls afterwards, the network hosting the debate will be to blame.
I think that is the kind of debate the Republican candidates really want.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@John Cole: Steve! Can we get proof of life for Shawn? Thanks Cole for all you do by hosting this joint. Thanks Tommy for your patience.
satby
@Tommy Young: Oh, so this is John’s fault?? I think that’s the second time you’ve implied that.
Not getting into it with you. You’re an IT professional, so I assume you can put on your big boy pants, accept the user comments, and fix shit. That’s all anyone is asking.
dr. luba
I like the white background and off black text. Can’t imagine why………
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@satby:
I think he’s saying that we’re the beta testers.
Are you on a computer or mobile? I’m primarily mobile (especially since the old site kept crashing my work computer) and so far there have been a lot of improvements of that experience.
Tommy Young
@satby: Nope, my partners!
John looked to us 100% and gave some specific things we had to have and then got out of the way.
Also, not once, not a single time have I been remotely rude to ANYBODY that left me a comment about the site. I dare you to find one time.
Now no clue why you have to be so freaking rude. I just made a statement of fact. So I am not sure how you’d be “getting into” it with me.
Ridnik Chrome
@TaMara (BHF): Thanks, TaMara, and everyone else who offered their advice.
Redshift
f.lux has apparently been “coming soon” for Android for quite a while, but I’m trying out Twilight, which seems to be a well-rated equivalent. I’m hoping I can convince Ms. Redshift to try out f.lux, because she has a lot more trouble with sleep than I do. (As in, I sleep like a log no matter what colors I’ve been staring at.)
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus: And you’re doing amazingly well. I’m trying to model that.
Amir Khalid
Remember the failed movie adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, which never got beyond the first, disappointing movie? Auntie Beeb has come to the rescue, with a TV adaptation. Pullman will have executive producer credit.
Redshift
@Amir Khalid:
With “Made in the USA” labels on them, of course.
MazeDancer
@TaMara (BHF):
You can’t.
While I understand how healthy it is and how much regular people like it, those of us who do any kind of obsessive design, art, graphics, photo or any other color sensitive work will not enjoy using it. Just testing it will freak you out.
Because if you go to great lengths to set up your monitor to accurately represent whatever pinpoint accuracy you need in your work, f.lux “destroys” all that. It’s like someone pasted an orange film over your precisely tuned monitor and shipped you to the fun house where you have suddenly lost your ability to see anything in your usual pixel-by-by illusion of control.
And you may try for a few minutes to understand wtf people get from this, but then when you try to stop it, in total panic, trashing the program, looking blindly for the off button, your eyes take a while to adjust back. That’s why, not quite sure how anyone whose perfectionist recovery program is not working out, yet, and depends on their color judgement for a living would be able to turn it on and off. You don’t want to “get used to the color”. You instinctively want to be able to judge color accurately, all the time.
If this describes you, then at night, dim your monitor way down. Switch to a smaller screen. Both of which you’re probably already doing. Though, if you’re really done for the night, and you have nerves of steel, well, go ahead and try the orange glow. And good luck with that.
MomSense
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
Deal!
Hungry Joe
From my newspaper days I know that people go freaking nutso at the slightest change. Try rearranging the comics page — not replacing any comics, mind you, just moving them around because you ADDED a couple — without infuriating the mob. And an actual re-design? Everyone hates it. Automatically. I always do, too, unless I worked on the re-design, in which case it’s clearly an improvement. Change is upsetting, disorienting, a crime against nature. For at least a week. And then you forget about it.
Still, the comments should be numbered. //ducks, dodges, serpentine//
piratedan7
@satby: good luck to thee in finding a good home for your career. Have you perused your local hospitals webpages because it seems that they’re usually in a state of transition and finding people who understand anything technical…..
Redshift
Voting is underway here in Virginia. This is always the lowest turnout out of the four year cycle, because there are only state legislature and local offices, but in my precinct at least, the turnout seems to be higher than usual, relatively.
Ordinarily, this would be a good thing, because we’re a Democratic precinct, but for some reason I’m feeling nervous. Low-turnout elections are such a wildcard, and a difference in turnout could go either way. There were apparently some predictions that the early focus on the presidential elections might have more people paying attention to politics than usual, or that it might just be energizing Republicans, but no one actually knows, of course.
I started out being a bit nervous because we had a young African American woman come through who wanted help in figuring out how to vote for the candidate who would “stop all those tolls.” This is a reference to a blatantly false attack ad that the Republicans have been using against every Democrat, with just the name and picture changed (which I tried to explain), so that was worrisome, but there weren’t any more who mentioned it. (Plus, our delegate and state senator are running unopposed, so she couldn’t vote for “that candidate” anyway.) It also made me nervous that the voters who were coming through in the early morning were more Republican, but I’ve seen that other years; morning people seem to be more likely to be Republicans. It swung back the other way by late morning.
I’m also trying not to be nervous for my friend Jennifer Boysko, who’s running for the House of Delegates in Herndon. She should be a shoo-in, because she lost by 32 votes last time against a Republican incumbent who has since retired. But again, off-off-year election, and their nominee this time is a Latino Republican in a district with significant Latino population, who is doing a “one of us” campaign in Spanish which carefully avoids mentioning his being Republican or his stance on almost any issue. Since there were some virulently racist Republicans elected there in the not-too-distant past, hopefully that will run aground when they see the R by his name, but who knows.
Jeffro
Can anyone explain to me why it matters who/where the info on Carson’s business arrangements with Mannatech came from ?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/carson-national-review-mannatech-submarine
I mean, really, that’s Carson’s defense? That the info (which is true and indisputable) came from another campaign??
RSA
Tommy, on the old site, I’d be able to click on a link to an older comment on the same page, and keep going back in that way, then use my browser’s Back navigation button to return to where I was originally. That doesn’t seem to be possible now. Any good substitute to “bring me back to where I started, even if I was scrolled halfway through the comments to a post”?
sm*t cl*de
@John Cole:
DANGER FLOOF
Amir Khalid
@Redshift:
There’s a story I remember reading:
Once upon a time, there was a Japanese town that had the three-letter string “usa” in its Romanised name, which was (something)usa(something). So some bright spark had the idea to set up a factory there, to make goods for export to your lovely country. These goods were all labelled MADE IN (something)USA(something). I presume that Bright Spark-san lived wealthily ever after.
Jeffro
@Redshift:
True in every election. That’s why it’s so important to have all the other options: late polling hours, mail-in, voting absentee, early voting, etc. Until we make Election Day a national holiday (and probably even after that), these have to be major priorities for the party nationally and in every state.
Btw I don’t think we’re going to get much done here in Virginia unless and until senate/house districts are redrawn one way or another.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@MazeDancer:
If you’re a designer, you’re probably better off getting some of those goofy orange glasses and wearing them while surfing at night rather than messing with your monitor.
dww44
@gogol’s wife: I almost never agree with Corner Stone (that’s CS in your comment, right?), but in this instance I do. Also, I’ve never been mean or cruel to Tommy in his role as a commenter here. But, I really don’t like all this unused white space, even if one can download a program to mute the starkness of it. Like right now there is total whiteness all around;a lot of unused space that also causes one to have to scroll a lot more.
sharl
@RSA: Others have mentioned that issue, and I strongly suspect that the group Tommy & John contracted with to fix the comments section specifically [mentioned in earlier post(s)] will take care of that.
In the meantime, I am right-clicking on the link to older comments then opening it in a new tab, and doing that however many times is necessary to get to where I want to go. And if I’m responding to another commenter with a comment of my own, I’m trying to block quote* the relevant portion of that other comment so anyone interested won’t have to jump back to see what I am referencing (*though I often do that anyway).
Rosalita
Now that I’ve seen the magic of hovering over the arrow to “open thread” I like it.
We need more Steve and the doggies, daily, please.
Redshift
@Jeffro:
Not much, but more than nothing if we retake the State Senate. While the rhetoric of Republicans in the House of Delegates can be as nutty as in the US House, at the state level there are occasional outbreaks of deal-making and compromise. If we have the Senate, I think there’s a reasonable possibility we’ll get Medicaid expansion if enough other Republican states do it, even though the House GOP is currently stamping their feet and saying “never never never!”
RSA
@sharl: Thanks, sharl! (I should have thought of that–nice solution.)
Aleta
@RSA: left a small apology to you for how I miswrote something, and a longer tedious explanation of what I was thinking, on John’s previous post called Some Days. Got a bad little virus so not thinking real clearly; hope link works.
SIA
@Scott: Thanks for that! Installed f.lux on laptop, but have no concept of the iPad jailbreak procedure.
kc
@Omnes Omnibus:
Aren’t you special.
kc
The mobile site looks the same on my (old) iPhone. I’m sure I’ll find plenty to bitch about when I see it on a pc.
Great Steve pic.
jheartney
@satby: I’m afraid I didn’t make any color suggestions; I was just nattering about how to make the top-level designs work better. I see the blog format option has been deep sixed, which is too bad. I’m stuck with seeing the useless “Our Most Recent Posts” module whenever I visit.
Omnes Omnibus
@kc: In quite a few ways, I am. Thank you for noticing.
J R in WV
Tommy,
You know and I know that any change (even pouring money into someone’s lap!) makes everyone unhappy. So take it from me, this is a big improvement already, and any future improvements will be even better.
For example, I’m amazed at the number of people who don’t appear to know that the “End” button takes you to the end (bottom) of any object you have set focus on, a little text window on a big comment thread window, or the big comment thread window, if that is where you clicked (put focus) last. So you, Tommy, don’t need to provide an on screen button labeled “Bottom of text” or anything like that.
If the font is too small, use ctrl+ (control and plus keys) to enlarge things on the window, and if the font is too big, use ctrl- (control and minus / hyphen keys) to make things smaller.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@J R in WV:
An “end” button would be useful for mobile users since we don’t have keyboard commands.
I do think that’s part of the conflict here — they’re trying to make a site that useful for both mobile and computer users, and it’s hard to make everyone happy since mobiles are (generally) used in a portrait orientation and computers are (generally) used in landscape.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
The penchant for gratuitous and totally superfluous quotation marks makes the inner former teacher ache more with each and every encounter.
NotMax
@Tommy Young
Shall again suggest going very slightly into the softer beiges. Snow FFFAFA or Seashell FFF5EE, for example.
Basic scale of off-whites to light grays (there are gradations in between, of course):
F8F8F8
F5F5F5
DCDCDC
D3D3D3
Also too, noting again that (at least on my view) some of the categories are below the fold, so effectively invisible when hovering over Categories. Making the font of the list of categories smaller will alleviate that. No reason to not be consistent and use the same font size as used for the list when one hovers over About Balloon Juice.
satby
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): My internet is finally back. I clearly fail at that, but I will attempt to emulate you both.
satby
@jheartney: ahh, I see now that it was NotMax.
Travels with Charley
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): hello, longtime lurker here! Just wanted to thank you for sharing your “Alexander Hamilton” fad with us. I’m hooked! There is something so passionate & positive about it! I have also taken to googling Lin Manuel Miranda!