Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Second rate reporter says what?

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Come on, man.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

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Front-Pager Testing of the New Site Has Begun!

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Calling All Front-Pagers!  As of a few minutes ago, you have access for testing the new site.

I can’t say when the wider testing will start, but if you are one of the testing volunteers, that means you might want to start checking your email daily.

Front-Pagers, if you see this:  Please uncheck auto posting of your test posts to John’s twitter and Facebook accounts!

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  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    @dmsilev: Yep, just a few days for the wider testing.

    I thought it would be helpful for everyone to know that things are moving along and that it wouldn’t be surprising if the wider testing starts in less than a week. No promises on timing, of course.

  11. 11.

    Starfish

    You know how things automatically post to John Cole’s Twitter account? A link to what I believe to be the test site just posted to John Cole’s Twitter account.

  17. 17.

    Martin

    For the record, I hate every aspect of the new design. It’s terrible and whoever thought any of it was a good idea should be forced to drive Trump to the airport.

    I’ll almost certainly hate it more once I get a chance to see it.

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    @WaterGirl

    As he’s someone who juggles coding and such for a living, during this phase presume that as a front pager he’ll be burning the midnight oil.

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    cain

    Good luck, watergirl! I hope the front pagers will be kind with their feedback, especially that Cole kid. But watch out for that Adam feller too!

  29. 29.

    PatrickG

    Front-Pagers, if you see this: Please uncheck auto posting of your test posts to John’s twitter and Facebook accounts!

    And if you don’t, let hilarity ensue!

  30. 30.

    J R in WV

    Oh, Front-Pagers…

    Never mind!

    I’ll go back to sleep now. Car resting on my shoulder, makes it hard to see the keyboard.

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    @J R in WV

    Car resting on my shoulder, makes it hard to see the keyboard.

    No doubt!

    Also too, a shining example of – ahem – autocorrect.

    :)

  32. 32.

    Anne Laurie

    Front-Pagers, if you see this: Please uncheck auto posting of your test posts to John’s twitter and Facebook accounts!

    I have NO idea what this might mean, WaterGirl — feel free to do whatever you need to make it happen, or to email me with instructions if it needs to happen from my end.

    (At least one in five of my posts don’t show up on Cole’s twitter feed here regardless, so I’m guessing there’s some form of tech-wizardry that’s beyond my talents.)

    I did leave some grubby fingerprints on the test site, though, so that’s one box checked off!

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    *mutters under breath to self* Fix.

    @J R in WV

    Car resting on my shoulder, makes it hard to see the keyboard.

    >

    No doubt!

    Also too, a shining example of – ahem – autocorrect.

    :)

  34. 34.

    J R in WV

    I expect things to be, well… odd for the next few weeks. Testing can do that to you. Been there, done that, from the other side of the wall. The fix it quick side of the wall, as opposed to the break it if you ca side of the wall.

    Good luck, software developers!

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    @Anne Laurie: Anne Laurie, I checked both of your posts, and they were both set to NO, so that’s good. :-)

    We don’t want links to the test threads on the private/unpublished test server to show up in John’s twitter feed and on facebook.

  36. 36.

    WaterGirl

    @Anne Laurie: I saw that! Are you planning to do more testing? Or are you satisfied that (knock on wood) your computer setup seems to be cooperating with the new system?

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    Ken

    @J R in WV: The best part of testing are the really WTF bugs. “When a post contains a link to a tweet that itself contains a 640×480 image, the CSS is mangled and all text is rendered right-to-left in lime green.”

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