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Despite wanting to, I am not going to steal Watergirl’s thunder and post the screen shots I have seen, but I am just super excited about how it looks so far. What I like the most is it stays true the site over the past two decades- it isn’t one of those new shit layouts that everyone seems to have done that ruins their site. The best way I can say it is that looking at the pictures, it feels like the same house, but you had the designer upgrade the kitchen and dining room and fix where the floor was starting to lean a little bit and then had the cleaners and decorators over. But it’s still the same house and not some new joint and you aren’t going from a cozy craftsman or farmhouse and moving into a modern condo.

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  1. 1.

    karen marie

    Oh, thank you! Much as I love Wonkette and LGM, I hate the new layouts, esp Wonkette, where you can change what story you’re reading but the comment thread is to the story you were reading first. #deleteDisqus

    I will be happy here if I can comment without having to type my nick/email every single time.

  2. 2.

    James E Powell

    it feels like the same house, but you had the designer upgrade the kitchen and dining room and fix where the floor was starting to lean a little bit and then had the cleaners and decorators over.

    Did you have the landscapers move the willow tree?

  7. 7.

    Suzanne

    WOOT WOOT!
    As always, many thanks to the whole team of jackals working so hard to keep the engine running. Sounds like this will be a major improvement.

  8. 8.

    eemom

    and then had the cleaners and decorators over.

    Just please, for the love of God, don’t take it in your head to do any mopping after they’ve left.

  11. 11.

    Amir Khalid

    Sometimes hearing that good news is coming fills me with dread. Not implying anything, just saying …

  12. 12.

    NotMax

    Extended autoplay of Thurston barking?

    :)

    Hoping the new design either axes or replaces the mini-dashes between comments, which makes it look like unspooling a roll of toilet paper when scrolling down.

    had the cleaners and decorators over

    If going that route, decorators first, cleaners after.

  15. 15.

    Suzanne

    O/T, but I keep thinking about tRump attempting to nickname Buttigieg “Alfred E. Neuman”. Mayor Pete should just tweet back, “Who?”. As if that is a mental association anyone un-old would make.

  20. 20.

    Uncle Cosmo

    Iiiiiiii dunno,Cole – this is starting to sound like this venerable lame joke:

    The lady was thrice-divorced, but she insisted that her new fiancé wait to consummate their relationship until they were wed. At last married, they proceeded to the honeymoon hotel. As they turned to one another in the nuptial bed, she said, Please be gentle – I’m a virgin.

    Now wait a minute, he said – you’ve been married 3 times before, how couold you still be a virgin??

    The first time I married for love – my high-school sweetheart – & we decided to wait. On they to the hotel we were involved in a horrible accident & he was killed.

    Oh…sorry.

    The second time I married for money, an 85-year-old multimillionaire. When we reached the honeymoon suite & he saw me or the, the poor man was so overcome he had a heart attack & died on the spot.

    So I presume your third husband also died on your wedding night?

    Oh no, we were divorced after three years. But he was a software development manager, & every night I’d fall asleep while he was telling me how great it was going to be.

    [rimshot]

  21. 21.

    satby

    @Mary G: @NotMax: chances are pretty good Mayor Pete did have to Google him. He’s the same age as my sons and only the comic book collector might recall the only the name outside of any context.
    Not sure I would anymore either, and I bought and read Mad when I was a kid… in the 60s. 50 y/o taunt for the not win.

  22. 22.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Uncle Cosmo: FTR “they” was spozeta be “the way” & “me or the” “me for the first time in the altogether”. This fucking computer is dropping whole hunks of bytes on the way to the Intertoobz. I got the edit screen, made the edits, hit “Save” – & the computer locked up. Piece of shit (borrowed from a friend after my little traveling computer was stolen out of my trunk) running Windows 8.2. I’m guessing this is the only OS in the multiverse that WinBlows 10 might be an upgrade over.

    (& while I was typing the “HP Support Assistant” took over the screen, asked me a stupid question, & then shivered like a fucking Chihuahua for 15 minutes before it let me answer it. Jeebus Fricken Cripes.)

    BTW&FWIW, greetings from the northeast suburbs of Prague, where at 12:20 local time it’s 58 F & overcast with light sprinkles. Belch.

  30. 30.

    dww44

    @The Pale Scot:This. So the promise that the front end will look the same is reassuring. I’m having adustment issues over at Booman’s new place. I don’t know where to look for the new posts.

  32. 32.

    karen marie

    @Wag: I really dislike the new layouts where shit is all over the place instead of consecutive like it used to be. BJ is the only one left that hasn’t fallen into that trap. I hope that what Cole means when he says it will be the same house is that trap will continue to be avoided.

    @NotMax: The dash line between comments is one of the things I like. It does not look like toilet paper. It seperates non-aggressively.

  33. 33.

    Citizen_X

    Is the rebuild going to get rid of that goddam ad script that keeps redirecting me—unrecoverably—off the site? Because that’s real annoying.

    (It’s most common on the mobile version, but happens on a computer as well.)

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