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Whatever in deity's name possessed Josh and company to inflict this terrible website software on the TPM readers and especially contributors? Not only is it not very good, it is in many ways much worse than the old software. If it was at least bad enough to get rid of the trolls, that would be something, but noooo...

The lack of both preview and edit functionality was specifically designed to make posters' lives difficult, and this was neatly combined with the lengthy trip through purgatory that all posts need to endure before appearing for all to see. The effects are devastating, but I must admit that seeing posts with only the first three words getting on top of the recommended list is absolute comic gold.

It is also considerably harder (or, to be more accurate, pretty damn near impossible) to have a meaningful discussion now because there is no way to see which posts in a thread are new. No notification of replies to one's own posts is a predictable consequence of this, but just a trifling niggle in comparison. On the upside, once a thread gets 100+ comments I just give up on it, thus saving valuable time, with the resulting inevitable increase in productivity which might just save the ailing economy. If that's not EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!, I don't know what is.

Then there is the "now you're logged in, now you're not" game. Until I started playing it, I considered myself to be a fairly sophisticated and experienced computer user... but this one always keeps me guessing. The AI is very good! It has been artfully tuned to frustrate users at every turn, but not enough to force them to leave. A true masterstroke.

I really hope major improvements to the site software are in the works. Please? Pretty please with sugar on top?