Your a talent JtC. I don't use a phone or pad but I can tell that the new design would be much more effective and readable on a small devise. Stylish. Thanks for all your hard work. Happy New Year I hope this coming year is as big of an improvement for the 99% as the new site layout and design is.

the thing won't let me log in.

Looks real groovy coolness.

So great past essays there to read. Especially, OPOL's one on Dan ans Phil.

I could not log in...I recently changed my password. Let us know if we can help in any way. Thanks for all the work!

Thanks for the site and your hard work. I'd send some cash, but things are kinda' tight around here just now.
Someday ...

we could cook some spicy meals in the old one, but now we can serve our soups first and the salad before the main dish, while dessert goes after the main entry and not after the salad. No way to mess up the order.

It will help to know who answered to whom and to exactly which comment. That's great improvement.

You can't compete with the Big Boyz without it.

Will it have an https login?

Very cool! I'm a little slow getting used to new things, but I should easily adjust to it. Happy New Year!

JtC. So far so good. Will try to take a look with the iPad later.

Well, I don't own a phone or have phone service and I am going to miss the list of recent essays, the featured essays and the links. I am not sure how anyone can write on a cell phone, but who knows?

On my ipad. Easy to read and to follow comments. One,thing that happened in the old ( current) system, is that my comment would disappear if I left the page or looked at another comment before finishing and never come back. Most of the time, I would just not try to retype it and so would not comment. Not sure if that was an Ipad thing or just a redstella thing. Could happen in the new system as well?

the banner and wreath all year long! They are so cheery! Maybe change "Seasons Greetings" to "Hello!"

I took the Christmas lights off of the porch today. The porch is going to look so dark and dreary tonight. It's surprising how much those itty bitty lights light up the area.

I trust that the monthly contributions are remaining healthy? Pl. let the community know how things are going --

have compared both old and new side by side.

A big problem with the old format was that photos at 500 width, fine on the laptop, bleed into the right-hand verbiage on the tablet. They look MUCH better with the new format. BUT... photos at 400 width on the new format end up with our words that should be under the photo placed over to the side instead! That looks kinda crappy. Of course we can fix that by making our photos wider. But tall photos that are maximum width are kind of overwhelming. So if you can keep words that we place under photos, under the photos where we placed them, that would be best.

I like the clean lines of the new format, but NOT the black/gray/white! We have been the calm blue waters, I think of that as part of the brand. I think the gray should be light blue and the black should be dark blue.

Please, please, please, if you do only one thing I say, make the type darker! This type is as light as you should go, and darker wouldn't hurt. Lighter? I'm going blind and I've only been on the testing site maybe 15 minutes. The font was equally small in both formats on the tablet. And equally light in the new format on both devices.

The Image Loader was much faster. Same as here otherwise, good for easy learning, but therefore I suspect it will slow way down like this one once it's fully loaded. Would it help to put photos in folders? Is it faster to load 100 folders of 100 images each than 10,000 photos? I'm thinking it might be because the folder contents wouldn't really load until you clicked to open one.

Your Donate information needs to be placed prominently.

For those trying to sign in, sign-in worked with my old password, not my new one. The Menu option didn't do anything. I could either select Menu or Menu. Other than that, I like it!

Please let us know if we need to worry about losing old posts!

Thenkyew, Johnny, and Happy New Year!

Edited to add: I like how you dressed up the place for Christmas!!

a really nice space to hang out in. The Juke Joint - the same old place, with a facelift ; ).

I’m glad you've modernised it to attract a younger audience as well. It will be a nice mix.

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Thank you especially, and all the rest who made it possible.

To a very promising year for all!

Cheers