Duplication is not a problem. I don't recommend advance review. Deleting a comment which contains an unacceptable (e.g. racist ,sexist etc.)remark would of course be OK but can be done after the fact.

What happened to the avatars? I liked being able to use them to "fast forward" when rereading a thread...

TPMcafe is seriously broken... "file not found", "internal server error 500", long delays with no feedback, leading to multiple duplicate posts. Needs to be fixed. Being able to edit what you've posted would be nice, but first make the freakin' site work. Please.

First they came for the edit function and I said nothing.

Next they came for the server and I said nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing. Nothing, I tell you!

Then they came for the avatars and there was no one left to post.

They're working on it. They have to move to new, bigger, servers first. Then, we get a preview function.

Though we DID used to have one on the old TPM site. Bring back TPM Classic!

And our avatars!

Please feel free to check out

WWW.TMCPAC.COM/forum

It has previews, create your own polls, edits avatars etc...

AND I REALLY NEED THE HELP.

Thank you.

Improvements such as those you have suggested would be most welcome.

Thanks.

The improvements you suggest would be most welcome. I hope they are feasible

Greetings folks. We already have a new editing system for reader blogs that will allow preview, more robust editing and a lot more. We're hoping to roll that out along with a new community and discussion following dashboard at the end of this month.

On avatars, they're not gone. We had to take them down temporarily for the following reason. TPM's outgrown our current server arrangement. And we're currently having a new system built at a company called logicworks. We're scheduled to have that ready for hand off by the 15th of this month. However, over the last week approximately our traffic has literally doubled. That combined with a flood of commenting has threatened to shut down our whole system. Without going into too much detail, a post that has 600 or 700 comments forces the servers to call that many avatars and that caused the temporary outage many of you noticed on Tuesday afternoon.

So we temporarily took down the avatars to keep the system up and running and we're hoping to have them back by next week. The flood of traffic is also responsible for the errors and double posting a lot of you have been seeing.

So, we know the problems. And we're moving as quickly as we can to solve them.

Wow,t his is wild. THe site refused to acknowledge my password. I kept getting a message that it was the wrong password. (BTw, TPM never wrote me acknowledging what my password was or my username.) I tried clicking from the link that TPM sent me when it verified my email address. I got an error message that way too! Now I see that I'm logged on after all! wtf?

I've been a TPM reader for a long, long time but never posted until this week because I hate registering for things. Finally this week I signed up. My whole experience posting and using the site has been a hassle. Error messages up the wazoo, then my posts appear anyway. Everywhere double posts (what a waste of time to scroll through these). As someone else said above, the site sucks. Everything about it sucks, the layout/look of the site, navigating, posting, EXCEPT the original reporting. All the supposed bells and whistles are just annoying. Frankly, I'd rather just read Josh's thoughts in straight blog form ala Andrew Sullivan's The Dish. I used to spend a lot of time here but now I find myself on other sites.

The problem I consistently have with blog posting (Opera 9.xx) is that when I log in, the ensuing page at the top left reads, "There was an error: Unknown user," and the entire left column underneath it is blank. From there, I use the browser's Back button to return to the original page, where now I'm shown as logged in and the comment box shows.

The problem I consistently have with blog posting (Opera 9.xx, IE7) is that when I log in, the ensuing page at the top left reads, "There was an error: Unknown user," and the entire left column underneath it is blank. From there, I use the browser's Back button to return to the original page, where now I'm shown as logged in and the comment box shows.