During the years I have been a Daily Kos member, I’ve grown old. I’ve lost my TU status, can’t afford to contribute the way I used to, checked out my friends of yore and find that they too have been demoted, down to only two marks, and never write diaries any more. Is this any way to treat your elders? Demoted into obscurity? I get emails almost daily from DKos asking me to log back in to my account and give my views on various subjects, which I might appreciate, but I have never logged out. Catch that Kos, I have never logged out.
Back to the present: I do not like the format of the new site. It is too white, too modern, too gray, and certainly geared to a huge viewing audience, with little left of the old intimacy that characterized community. I’m old, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like change. I fear the changes made will not enhance the sense of community we once had, or did I only imagine it?