Things I hate about the redesign

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Sunday November 08, 2015 · 12:37 AM PST

2015/11/08 · 00:37

Ok,ok, this is likely to disappearing into the maw — the very white page maw— of the site, but I need to get this off my chest: the redesign is making me crazy.

First, the site is loading like a giant bloated pig. Jeez, Nordstrom’s site loads faster. I’m spending way too much time waiting and then scrolling. I usually read on an iPad. You have to make this site lightening fast or folks will get frustrated and go away.
The new font is too light, has too much surrounding white space, and is a nightmare for older eyes.
We like comment titles for many reasons. Many of us collapse large threads and dip in and out based on comment titles. Many dKos titles were themselves works of art — perfectly crafted to form smooth or snarky transitions in an argument.
I can't find my way to a comment on my comment without scrolling forever. Dumb.
Front-page white space is crazy. Yeah,yeah, i’ve read all the arguments for it — it makes the site slicker, more au courant, more we’re-a-news-powerhouse-not -just-some-lefty-blog kinda thing. But what keeps people coming back? The comments and diaries, not the front page news. There, I said it. (Disclaimer: Meteor Blades diaries excepted from this rule).
Those floating alerts in the lower left corner announcing the arrival of new comments? Beyond annoying. I feel like I'm in a foxhole and someone keeps screaming “Incoming!"

I’m not a Luddite, just a practical person. And this is only my second diary in eleven years, so I guess my dander is up (and I’m not even sure I know where my dander is located).

PBS Palin Poll

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Friday September 19, 2008 · 3:34 PM PDT

2008/09/19 · 15:34

I just did a search and haven't seen this come up, but PBS is hosting a "Is Palin qualified" poll, which is being freeped. This is apparently a tie-in with their interview of Palin.

Link: www.pbs.org/cgi-registry/poll/poll.pl

I'm link challenged, so if someone can make this a live link, thanks (midnight here in London, and I'm too sleepy to read through all the Kos directions -- mea culpa).

The Schiavo diversion

mauricehall

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Sunday March 20, 2005 · 2:33 AM PST

2005/03/20 · 02:33

Help me work through some ideas.

I'm not the first to comment here on the manner in which the GOP has decided to pay back the loyalty of the Christian Right by making the Schiavo "right to life" case its own. Nor am I the first to insinuate that media interest in this case pulls national attention from the Middle East mess and Bush's domestic policies. But I am struck by the way in which the Schiavo case displays the most intransigent American narratives of class, race, and gender to bolster the status quo.

I will not rehearse the legal and ethical issues so eloquently defined by others on DKos. Instead, I'm intrigued by the cultural importance of the Schiavo case, at this moment in time. Read More

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