Right .... Now I have your attention.
Mrs Twigg is limeyswife . She is a daily reader of DailyKos, doesn't yet have it on her Kindle (because you can't comment), but has access just about everywhere else.
She has made few comments and, like any good wife, she recs my Diaries ... well she does if she wants her feet rubbed.
She has written one Diary and had the good fortune to have it make the Rec. List.
She is, while average in no other sense, just an average casual-but thankful-for-it-being-here User.
She got a new Android phone, TweetDeck and DK4 all the same day, and her brain is exploding!
Mrs Twigg has been a reader of Dkos, and long-time lurker for some years now. Always quietly pleased about the "no-nonsense" truth she reads in many of the Diaries and Front Page articles. She knows the essential "truth" therein, because she has teh Google, and she knows how to check ... Ahhh! the benefits of a College education!
Now, she tells me, she visits less.
I'm sitting here thinking that maybe she is turning back into a Republican , so I quickly scan her browser history for tell-tale signs of Freeperdom, or Red State. Nope! Nothing to see there, so I ask her why?
Apparently .... THERE IS JUST TOO MUCH TO SEE
She likes DK4. Likes the layout and the "look and feel". For my own part I have a few minor reservations about that, but so far I am hearing positives from her, so I press on for the gory details.
Well ... says she ... "I hardly know where to start. There is so much I am finding it overwhelming".
Here I stop and pause. I have spent more time on the site than she, and am probably a little more familiar with what was, just a short while ago, a strange and pretty scary entity.
She is right. There is vastly more to see and do than there ever was, and that is bringing it's own set of issues. Where to start? Where to go? Who to follow .... and if I follow them, who am I missing? Damned Diary List is useless, mostly, but other lists less so. Can I remember where they are? Oh yeah, and don't forget the Stream ...
MARKOS! GIVE ME MY F*@KING STREET MAP!
So ... New and Old Users alike are having some adjustment issues. The ones who want to, will get there, and I suppose that the Googlers who find the place anew will never have known any different, and probably manage better than those of us who preferred a life filled with simpler pleasures, with Group Blogs to match.
Mrs Twigg doesn't really hate Markos, she just wants his phone number so she can plague him with questions. At least, I think that's why she wants his number!
Oh, and she Follows those Cranky people , so she is pleased to be getting some help :)