Daily Kos is the best progressive blog that really is a large community with many sub-communities. DK4 is designed to make it easier for our many talented writers to reach a wider audience and to give us tools for easier online activism.
This diary explains the DK4 tagging system from a nontechie's perspective. Some kossacks have expressed concerns of intimidation or dislike of DK4. The upshot for me is that you can use DK4 exactly as you use DK3 and never learn about or use the many tools provided by DK4. The FP is essentially the same but has 3 new lists to find diaries that TUs (our new recent list), rescue rangers (our new community spotlight list) and FP'ers (our new Feature Box) think are good quality writing, hot news or interesting community projects.
But if you want to expand what you can now do at DK3, you might want to gradually learn about the new features at your own pace. There's no rush as DK4 is likely to be a continual learning experience. If you are involved with organizing projects, or participating in diary series or sub-communities, you might like the new tools designed to help us.
I had a little e-mail chat with Markos and elfling this morning to clarify a few issues with the DK4 tagging system.
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