After 15 Years, He Finally Cleaned The Place
Yes, a subtle layout overhaul. A light dusting. As is the way with such things, there may be one or two glitches to sort out, archived videos that need to be resized, etc. Do feel free to point them out. But overall, the blog should be more legible and responsive to a range of devices. Less squinting, I think.
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After 15 Years, He Finally Cleaned The Place
About bloody time. 🙂
Your tip jar has been hit.
Quoting Groucho Marx, Whatever it is, I’m against it.
Hyperlinks are not clearly visible–are merely a slightly different shade of the plaintext color. How about a return to underlines?
Not sure, but pages do seem to load slower than before.
Do we have to dress smartly now? Ping!
Your tip jar has been hit.
Ping!
Bless you, sir, and bless you, madam. May your noticing of a female neighbour’s oddly big feet not itself be noticed by the owner of the feet in question.
Hyperlinks are not clearly visible–are merely a slightly different shade of the plaintext color. How about a return to underlines?
[ Starts writing list. ]
Do we have to dress smartly now?
I’d settle for some of you just dressing at all. Mentioning no names, of course.
Do we have to dress smartly now?
Isn’t eveyone else wearing their blogging thongs?
[ Starts putting newspaper on the upholstery. ]
*kerching!*
I’d settle for some of you just dressing at all.
[ Hastily verifies that webcam is disabled. ]
*kerching!*
Bless you, madam. May your enemies learn, with horror, just how much fluff finds its way under the bed.
I have said in earlier threads that I like England enough to want a second small home there. But not until all these government goons have been deported to North Korea.
What fresh hell is this ?
Now I need an electron microscope, it is not even 2/3 the width of a real monitor. This appears to be a aimed at people who play on phones all day or using a 13in VGA CRT monitor. The text is at best 6pt, and maybe 4 in the “Categories” list.
What a cool thought – I had no idea they were so cheap…
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/362768654848
Alternatively, I could just use the [CTRL +] keyboard combo and find myself in lovely 125% zoom land.
About the big floating left-arrow and right-arrow: I definitely liked the old style much better; they worked perfectly and they told you the names of the links.
Text looks about the same size as it’s always been to me. I’m running Firefox on Windows.
The text size looks somewhat smaller in my browser (Firefox on Windows) but I can enlarge it satisfactorily with the Zoom + control.
I definitely liked the old style much better…
What he said, it worked.
Text looks about the same size as it’s always been to me.
Firefox, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, and a couple of more obscure ones on Win or Linux, all equally subatomic type, and yes, I can hit CTRL + or put on my 4X Optivisor, but this is the only site requiring either now. The only place there is a marginal improvement is on a phone.
OTOH, at least it is not that Disqus pile of horsecrap.
Sad news: Nichelle Nichols has died. I did not realize she had Alzheimers. Sigh.
And now only Shatner, Koenig, and Takei are left.
What he said, it worked.
Yes. I’d like to make some sort of smartass comment, but cannot think of anything that might make David laugh.
[ Slips on spilled beer, falls on ass. Listens for cruel laughter from behind the bar. ]
I’d like to make some sort of smartass comment…
Well, to add to you comment about page loading, yes, my unborn grandchildren will be able to read this comment by the time the page reloads…
I had no idea they were so cheap…
Well it was used. The depreciation on those things will kill you. You lose half the value the minute you drive it off the lot.
I love the new look! One of the navigation tools I found useful is gone though. At the top of the page there were hyperlinks to the main page, the previous post page and the next post page if you’ve been looking at earlier posts and they’re gone now.
No biggie, but I found it useful when comment threads exceeded 100 (which they seem to be doing with increasing frequency).
Laptop running Windows 10, Firefox browser
One of the navigation tools I found useful is gone though. At the top of the page there were hyperlinks to the main page, the previous post page and the next post page if you’ve been looking at earlier posts and they’re gone now.
Very useful. I want them back.
View discretion is advised.
I want them back.
A metaphor.
What a cool thought – I had no idea they were so cheap…
I’m rather intruiged by the prospect of it being delivered by post.
I’m rather intruiged by the prospect of it being delivered by post.
Don’t forget to request “fragile, handle with care” stickers to guarantee that it gets dropped multiple times.
Change? I’m ag’n it! Seriously, ping! I’m waiting to see if my employer will hold my job while I’m in Ukraine with the International Legion. Last hurdle but they’re taking longer to make a decision then the Ukrainian military.
Since David’s is my landing page for when I want to peruse blogs and such, I did rather like the blogroll links on one side, the in-blog tags on the other. But I can scroll down and find the blogroll, so no biggie. I did use the links to Main at the top, for the same reason as Steve – gets you back to the main page after you’ve perused 2 pages of comments.
The comment compose text seems larger – all the better to not miss unclosed html tags so that helps. Seems to be a different font to the main blog content font, too. The blogroll font is as tiny as it has always been, but now seems grey instead of black.
But, again, I don’t like change – never have, prolly never will. But I can get used to this layout. I enjoy the blog, however it looks.
I was going to praise the font, but it turns out from the CSS that it’s supposed to be Helvetica or Arial, and being a Linux geek, I don’t have those so my browser’s falling back to the default: IBM Plex Sans. It’s rather pleasant.
“This appears to be a aimed at people … using a 13in VGA CRT monitor.”
14″, actually. Dell Trinitron. I also have a 19″ one, but no space for it. (Because yeah, most of the time I use a couple of more modern LCDs. But CRTs will be the next vinyl, mark my words.)
Since I’m on nerdy stuff, this is a somewhat disturbing development.
CRTs will be the next vinyl, mark my words.
I want “one strike and you’re out” to be the new vinyl.
Just looking at her, you would never guess what she believes.
We’ve had a wonderful intersectional moment this week in Australia after 7 Christian rugby players decided they’d rather sit out a match than wear an LGBT pride jersey with some (honestly quite understated) rainbow stripes. Media coverage of their decision has obviously been overwhelmingly negative, but tempered by the fact that they’re all of Pacific Island heritage (as is almost half of the league, yet the 3 players they found to model the jersey happened to be white). For some reason, there was much less outrage when a female Muslim Australian rules football player did the same thing.
Tim Blair and Nick Cater chat about it on their podcast this week.
Great blog. Tip jar hit.
“He finally cleaned the place”
My goodness! Is that a parquet floor? Or just the same dreadful old carpet? In any event, ping!
I think a “Ctrl – +” is in order with the new look.
Morning, all.
[ Rubs eyes, slurps coffee. ]
Seriously, ping!
Tip jar hit
In any event, ping!
Bless you, sirs. When shopping, may they always have your size.
Have you remembered your pronoun bracelets?
Some, of course, prefer pronoun earrings.
Because the rest of us have nothing better to do than to scrutinise other people’s accessories.
And in church-going news.
Apparently, there was a pressing need for a “special communion worship service with guest presenters in drag.”
equally subatomic type
Heh. How about now? I knocked it up a notch.
Thanks for reporting back on the cray-cray.
*hits tip jar*
*hits tip jar*
Bless you, sir. May your new boots combine style with good traction.
On a boring technical note, the new theme has a nasty case of FOIT (flash of invisible text):
– at a glance, all text remains hidden until everything has finished loading. Happy to help you debug if the cause isn’t obvious.
Portland property market.
https://thepostmillennial.com/portlanders-desperately-try-to-sell-off-homes-taken-over-by-squatters
Also ping!
Portland property market.
Nothing tempts a buyer quite like the words “squatters in the barn.” Or casual references to rooms full of trash and extensive fire damage.
Also ping!
Bless you, madam. May you always have handy index cards on which to scribble notes, shopping lists, etc.
And in anthropological news, a development on TikTok. Perhaps the ladies think it’s empowering.