Get your butt back here! For the 55th time since we underwent the apocalypse, just hang in here!

My blogs won't show up at all. How long did it take this one to appear?

Linus sends his best woofs.

I guess I'm in the same wait and see.

Not even a crappy little text editor. I remember when Andrew started. He was gonna kick ass and take names to right the listing craft on the last changeover to a new system. That was when the Cafe was not part of media consolidation........

So someone decides to take a flyer on untested code, like, over Christmas? New Years? Noooo... let's wait until all the campaign junkies need their biggest fixes and our servers are hot to the touch.

Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket.

Alphonse

I emailed Andrew today, asking about our archived writings. He assures me they are still existing and will be recovered.

I am still unpersuaded that this change will be to our benefit. The situation seems to be that TPM had been heading toward different software for its main page, muckraker, and election page. The Cafe was a rump site running on different software and a messy kludged interface to TPM. So the change was for eliminating impediments to TPM.

That it would involve different features was presented as "adding" blog recommendation and such. That the tracking and "new" indications would be lost was not mentioned at all. Josh has said on my blog that some of that might come back if they can afford it. Sounds like a permanent delay to me.

I note that my analysis of wider instead of deep is evidenced by "The Shuster Thing", george, today. Starts with "This is my first post here.." So TPM gets new posters. And lots---Ellen found 76 went up in 36 hours. And here's something to consider: Lacking tracking means we have to spend longer to recover a conversation, so we spend longer here, period. Might look good to advertisers, since time-on-site is a new point being pushed around the web. Kind of like rearranging the shelves at your grocery---you take longer, maybe buy new stuff.

There have been previous changes, and the biggest one happened with us in the loop. TPM and the Cafe switched to a new server, but let the site run for a couple of weeks unpublished, with trusted users taking it for a test drive. That was when they needed us, I guess. Then a more recent change that had TPM going to the white-page look crowded out the Discussion Tables, so they got less profile and traffic. We all gravitated to the blogs, wading through crap like merman1983 to find our friends.

And now, we may come back but it will be at Josh's convenience, of course. Dang.