"Save early, save often."

Ok, I'll try to identify here in one place the problems I'm still having, as well as suggested improvements.

First, though, cscs's suggestion on how not to lose the contents of a submitted post if it doesn't go through has worked for me so far.

Problems:
1. At my profile, most of the posts I've recommended are not recorded in the left-hand column.

2. At my profile, the comments begin with something I wrote back in 2005 (maybe the first thing I posted here?) Also, I would prefer to have just the beginning excerpt from each comment listed with a link to the whole thing, instead of text for the whole comment, so that I can access more comments more readily.

3. Maybe it's just me and I was careless or screwed it up but I've had a couple of comments that didn't end up in the position in the thread where I thought I had placed them. In your open thread yesterday I thought I was replying to you but the comment posted far away in the thread.

Things I'd like to see improved (perhaps some of these are intended, but either not functioning properly yet or still in the works):

4. A direct link to the reader blogs on the home page, so we don't have to scroll all the way down to get there.

5. A way, requiring no more than one link away from the homepage, to find out easily if someone has responded to a comment we have posted.

6. Likewise, a way, requiring no more than one link away from the homepage, to find out if someone has commented on a blog entry we've posted.

7. I find it somewhat difficult to tell when a comment is a reply to someone else, versus a comment in response to the leadoff post in the thread.

I understand the global tracker is not an option with this system, unfortunately. It would be vastly preferable if a way could be found to enable denizens to accomplish items 6 and 7 above--that is, access both our blog and comment entries--at one site location, though.

8. A space somewhere on the site, not difficult to identify and get to (link from the homepage), for "backbench" discussions among denizens, as others have suggested.

Appreciate all your hard work Andrew, your commitment to finding out what problems we are having and what improvements we suggest. I will be patient. What helps me a whole lot is if you can let us know on a regular (I'd say daily at this point in the new rollout) basis a) what is being addressed and b) realistic estimate of by when you expect it to be addressed. This helps me avoid nagging you and wasting your time with requests to fix things that are already being worked on, like I surely have done here. Thanks.