@Arrow
it's greatly appreciated.

PayPal no longer supports monthly recurring payments, but monthly payments can be made by using a "Subscription" service, I need to set it up though. I'll do that soon as we are planning a fund raiser for the near future.

A year ago when the Great Migration occurred, I paid the site's hosting bill for a year in advance. That year long bill ran out last month, so I'm paying the hosting bill month by month now. We are planning a fundraiser in hopes of raising enough funds to pay the bill for at least 6 months in advance, 12 months would be even better if possible.

Thanks again, Arrow.

I would like to direct you to the top left corner of the page(under the search box).
Where a nice yellow button will take you to a magical place were you can opt to support C99P with a generous contribution. You can even opt to do so on a regular monthly basis.
It's fun and all the cool kids are doing it. No peer pressure tho.
Just sayin.
Edited for new information...thanks JtC

@dancingrabbit
Yeah, I know, I plan on tackling that asap. Thanks. As I said in the OT, it's a work in progress.

On my cell phone screen, the text in menus below aticles is not wrapping properly behaving instead as though there is a hard return at every spacing break so that, for example, a comment title appears like:

Impromptu
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It's impossible for me to follow such strung-out text on my 5-inch screen.

@Lookout
thanks, my friend.

The place looks great...and works well on my desktop.

@Pluto's Republic
for the kind words, I take your opinion to heart.

Readership is down from what it was a year ago, but I don't think that's a bad thing. Readership is down on all left-o-sphere blogs for obvious reasons. I think we are down to the core membership that pretty much view things as as the original group envisioned them, and I include you as an integral part of that original group. I like to think of us as a group of hard cores.

For various reasons some have moved on. The cause of the huge influx last March, Bernie Sanders supporters, and his defeat in the primaries, I point to as the main source of many folks not participating as much here as before. And the general political malaise that hangs over the country and the world. Social media is also certainly a factor. All in all I'm more comfortable with the lower traffic, it's certainly easier on my nerves.

A few weeks ago we were experiencing some CPU overload and I disabled the Recent Comments in the Navigation menu in hopes of relieving some of the excess overload. I wasn't really sure if anyone really even used that page.

But I'll tell you what, things have calmed down and the site is running fairly well, so I'll re-enable the Recent Comments page and see how it goes.

Thanks for the input, my dear old friend, I treasure it.

It is tasteful and unobtrusive, and I think, inviting. Very easy to read. Personally, I find the interactions between members to be compelling. I think the design has something to do with the overall tone, which is considered and thoughtful. Comments are trending longer and more generous with links and explanations. At the same time, there is a decided lack of fear in the room, which increases the range and depth of topics to explore. Many cannot be discussed openly at other forums, and I imagine they are read with interest by the studio audience.

How is readership these days?

One feature I like is gone. I was using "Recent Comments" under the Navigation menu. My visits are usually short. I use that feature to get a snapshot view of where people are gathered when I arrive and what they are thinking and talking about in that moment. Is it hiding somewhere else?

[Edit]

"Recent Comments" seems to be back in the regular sidebar menu. So scratch that.

@Ellen North
and I'm glad to see you logged back in.

This site is supported by people power, donations are what keep us lit up. I only ask that members contribute what they can afford. If anyone is tapped out and can't afford to donate that's perfectly fine, I can't stress that enough.

Thanks, my friend.

Just wanted to say thanks ever so much, JtC; as a computer illiterate, I've been scared to try logging in here and have been feeling rather as though my air supply was cut off, lol.

And I wish I could send more concrete support, but somehow a little over $8000 a year isn't enough to actually squeak by on to begin with, with just room-rent taking over half of that, and is gone before I get it... sure would if I could! This site and the amazing people it attracts provides me with most of what little hope I can find anywhere.