Think the new system is working out well.

It would be nice if the right-hand of the blogs could list the recommended and most recent posts. That way, don't have to go back and click TPM Cafe to get that. Not a show stopper, just a nice feature.

BTW, is the Cafe Dude icon now the default avatar for anyone who doesn't actively choose an avatar?

Still having problems w/ my dashboard. The "Recommend" tab is the only one working. "Posts" and "comments" are empty.

Also at least 2 comments today went out into the ether w/o ever showing up.

Thanks for keeping tabs on us! Appreciate your help!

Increasinlgy frustrated with the inability to see people's recent comments, including my own. Keep visiting pages of people after seeing they have commented somewhere, finding their comments not updated either. (For example, bslev still has no comments on his list, I know he commented recently because I caught it on the dashboard. And I know Resistance has posted comments that are not on his list.) Hoping the fix is coming soon, being patient.

Before the update, I used to use my own version of tracking to surf the site (used the address bar memory to look at people's profile pages, see what they were commenting on.) Now I can't even get that.

Oh and I tried to submit earlier today a comment with three urls (it was to help another user, to refer to staff posts about, yeah, missing comments) and instead of a confirmation, I kept getting the message that it was being held for management approval, and I finally figured out that you must have a spam filter for too many links in a comment. If you do, can you post that in instructions, what it is, how many links are allowe in a comment?

But hey, I must shout this: THANKS FOR THREADS LIKE THIS. Believe me, I was present at and an active commenter on 2 other software changes here, and helped other users with tips on the original 3rd system, since I had experience at it, and there has never been anything near this level of "customer service" here or even customer care, it's very refreshing to finally see this site paying a lot of attention to its users. Don't get me wrong, I realize the past was about staffing priorities, but after a while it gets tiresome to be dealing with "there's no one in charge here" syndrome, having to develop workarounds with other users for problems. I've been through it on other sites before I came here, and it gets tiring to realize you are being used as a volunteer workforce when you're already a customer by creating content and traffic. Maybe it was fine in the old early days of ebay, but things change. :-)

I think the new improvements are great, especially the ability to EDIT! Why, M. J. has been able to change the title of his post six times today already.

Two minor complaints:

In the post writing box, it's near impossible to get the cursor activated if you navigate away from it to link, cut'n'paste or whatever.

The "William Penn" anonymous icon kind of sucks. Some reader comment threads like like and Ivory/Merchant production, and it tends to make all of the comments look like they are coming from a single commenter. The old silhouette didn't create this impression, for some reason.

Thanks!

As long as this comment goes through, I think I'm fine. I made one earlier, at a post, and got an error message (I should've saved it).

I'm happy with the changes so far and am hopeful the little glitches will iron themselves out.

And I agree with artappraiser, it's great to see you guys actively talking with us, asking us for input like this. Thank you!