For some reason, most of the comments prior to May 2006 are no longer showing up on the site. I'm not sure what the issue is. I still have all the data for those comments in various backups, and they are available when I export the old entries, so they're not lost. I'll see about fixing the glitch.
In other news, I've been making minor tweaks to the layout of the site; mostly subtle changes to address some problems that date back to the launch. The margins and links should look better now.
I have updated the link for the Puddleby Calendar of Events button in Favorites to reflect the new calendar URL. The new calendar is coordinated by InuTeisei.
Interesting times lately! It's great to see such new projects as the OWE News and SNN. Also, Ethereal Incursions have generated quite a bit of exile activity in recent weeks. TMN will continue to cover these events as it prepares to celebrate its fifth anniversary next month. This old Thoom's still got some life left in him.
-Para
Posted by Para at April 26, 2007 12:08 AMW00t. Thoomcare rocks!
Thanks for maintaining the #1 news site Para!
I probably browse TMN more than I play CL!
Posted by: Shadrock on April 26, 2007 01:16 AMI noticed that there is no longer a spacer/separation from one story to another (specifically on those stories that lead into another story posted on different days).
Is this part of the new layout?
Posted by: Phineas on April 26, 2007 10:40 AMIndeed, it is. Way back when I launched the site, I had to strip out a lot of the CSS because Netscape 4.7.X couldn't handle it, and a lot of CL users were still using that browser at the time. As a kludge, I forced that horizontal line into the html to make up for the loss of some of the nice CSS spacing and formatting.
Anyway, that was 2002, and nowadays everyone's using Safari or Firefox, so I've been restoring the style sheet data and cleaning up the old template.
I think you're suggesting, Phineas, that it would be nice to have some sort of visual indication of the start of each story because otherwise those posted on the same day tend to run together. I agree. OWE News, for example, has a nice orange box with an arrow that indicates the start of each new story. I've been thinking of implementing something like that.
Posted by: Para on April 26, 2007 03:17 PMThe new new format is much gooder! Many thanks.
Posted by: Phineas on April 28, 2007 07:17 AM