Update [2005-3-15 19:16:3 by BooMan]: Hey! What’s Wrong With You People? Post some friggin diaries!
Update [2005-3-15 22:35:29 by BooMan]: You guys/gals are having a lot of fun in the diaries and the regional open threads. And that makes me happy. But please give some love to Pastor Dan and SusanHbu for contributing great content to the site.
This site has been up for almost 48 hours. We’ve been making improvements on the fly and a lot of issues y’all have raised have been corrected. A few others are in the queue.
Consider this an open thread to complain about the site, and make suggestions. Also, you could be nice if you want. I mean, if you have anything nice to say.
How does everyone like the colors?
Do you like the regional threads?
What do you think about the ‘World Recommended Diary’ feature?
How do we get more ‘World’ people to post diaries?
Does it bother you that the threads have East on the left coast and West on the right coast, or do you feel that since the East was settled first it should take place of honor?
Are the grey boxes too dark?
Do you spell it grey or gray?
And finally, about those default comment titles:
I’m not a fan of the default comment titles. I think the ideal setting (which might not exist) would be to have it insert what is now the default title if the user leaves it blank.
I like the frog. 🙂
And World Diaries are a great idea, too.
Love the site.
Just tried to post a comment to the Christian women and sports diary: previewed OK, but would not post.
(Essentially, it says, “Help, I can’t breathe!”)
Will see if this comment posts.
Also, I have a question. How do I get signature line, or at least the quote portion, in italic?
As for geographic threads: It feels a little odd being in the World section (U.S. Virgin Islands), but I sure don’t belong in the South. The culture is way too different. I have to admit that when I came here seventeen years ago, I had my first introduction to the evils of Christopher Columbus, the U.S. sins of colonization, slavery and militarism (not to mention the underhandedness of the CIA) and our built-in racism. Yeah, I guess I belong in the world community. This is much more of a polyglot way of life.
Yes. Please, everyone should consider this because it is confusing if you don’t do it.
Just use: <i>place your sig text here</i>.
These are other popular HTML tags:
<b></b> bold
<u></u> underline
For a fuller treatment you can go here: <a href="http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/DailyKos_FAQ">Daily Kos FAQ</a>
Oh wait, that won’t work because I am posting this in plain text. Go to my FAQ and then link to Kos’s FAQ.
I also love the regional area’s. I would love to get more WORLD people over here. Have you gotten a hold of Sjor? Perhaps some of the World peeps know of some way to link or promote this blog over Seas or in their country? As we discussed my only questions (are the red !’s by some names and not others and (being able to edit your diary after you put it up or delete it. Love the colors. With the red and green, you are gonna have a blast during the holidays. FROGGY IS GREAT. I love that people think he has dreads or is in cuff’s. I just discovered spell check..perhaps people will not be put off by my shitty spelling. yippppieeee
I think they indicate whether you have read the diary (actually; not read the diary).
This already feels like a terrific, warm place. And the diaries are terrific. Some are rather silly, but they ARE terrific. I’m big on silly anyway.
And thank you for all of your kind explanations of everything.
I’m waving! Can you see me??
Given that St. Patrick’s Day is almost here, the green is most appropriate. Not to mention that I find the softer color easier to read on the screen.
Regional and World threads are a great idea. I wouldn’t worry too much about getting more people on World diaries. Give ’em a bit of time.
Actually, it might not be bad to have East thread on the right and West on the left, since that’s the way you look at a national map. If so, I’d also switch South and Midwest.
Gray/grey:
from The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual
Oh, and lose the busybody automatic comment titles. People here are smart enough to think of their own. 😉
What is your opinion about “entertainment” diaries like C&J and Bob Johnson’s dog? Are they welcome by the management or should the diaries posted stay strictly political? The diary police are always going to have an opinion as to what’s appropriate, but I’m more interested in hearing how management feels about such diaries, since theirs is the only opinion I care about.
just won an award for something or other. Bill is a special talent.
Of course, themed and recurring diaries are welcome. Darwin will act his magic on them.
I trust the voting and recommend system to self-regulate 99% of what goes on here.
I am also pleasantly surprised to say that I have not yet encountered one rude or trollish post.
But anyway, until we grow a little, I still will refer you to Pastor Dan’s DKos Community Guide, which can be accessed in the FAQ.
Eventually, we’ll write our own guide.
Welcome. And thanks for asking a good question.
Bob Johnson’s dog is no slouch either. Of course, he/she hasn’t won a Koufax. Yet.
Thank you. I really like the new digs.
Is anyone else having a problem linking to dKos? I can’t get there from anywhere (not just here). I went to read pastordan’s community post (again since I read it when it was first posted) and still no dice.
There is some sort of tricky only-a-computer-geek-can-fix-it problem with the domain (I think), but you should be able to get in if you use this:
http://69.9.161.200/
Thanks. Done, but navigation is shot. Think I’ll wait until it’s fixed, whenever that may be. Thank you for the link.
Hey Booman, just an idea (you may hate it, and that’s okay, please express whatever emotion you feel if you wish, I will not regard it as a putdown).
Since you’re able to create “World Recommended Diaries” (which I think would have to be a more difficult task than my suggestion, as you would have to link WRD to World members)… would you also be able to create a subsection for Just for Fun/Entertainment Value/whatever diaries as well?
I’m just thinking this could keep room for political diaries and offer extra space for Just For Fun stuff, and if it gets recommended, it could of course go to RD.
As I said, it’s just an idea.
The gray boxes are a little dark for me
Love the World diaries
Love Scoop
Cheers! Booman!
ps: I can’t comment on the poll. not allowed.
you might check, it told me that it couldn’t find that story…but it posted anyway.
Something funky is going on there. I’m still learning SCOOP and I’ve been playing with this site for a month.
Bear with me.
I just noticed that pastordan’s post title is not boxed. it’s kind of floating under your ‘comments’ clicky. if that makes any sense.
Same thing happened to me, but it posted my comment anyway.
Ok – that is either pretty cool, or a little ominous.
There is a frog in my IE address window, even after I leave the site.
Hal? Hal Burton, is that you?
Not really a complaint, but a suggestion. Since Texas is so big geographically and isn’t really in the South or the West, how about a Texas category?
I’ve noticed that many of the posters on the blogs I frequent are from Texas. God knows Texas Democrats need to get better organized and anything that would facilitate communications to that end would be a plus.
Many people in Texas already think that they are their own country. If you had a Texas category, that would save the South and the West threads from being overrun with us.
I love the green and the I guess mustard brown?. It looks really cool.
Love the regional open threads the the world options.
Little confused by the poll here though. It has a separate link and separate comments. Okay, I guess I just have to get used to that
Otherwise love it. Nice work Booman!
How does everyone like the colors? Fine with me.
Do you like the regional threads? Cool.
What do you think about the ‘World Recommended Diary’ feature? Fine with me.
How do we get more ‘World’ people to post diaries? I dunno, maybe the same way Bush got Jeff Gannon to bring pleasure to his, um, “press conferences”?
Does it bother you that the threads have East on the left coast and West on the right coast, or do you feel that since the East was settled first it should take place of honor? Settled first??? Try going a little farther back in history, make that quite a bit farther back, before the melanin-challenged peoples arrived from Europe on the east coast of the American continent. The west, starting with what is now Alaska, was first settled when people migrated over from what is now Siberia.
Are the grey boxes too dark? Just a bit. Don’t go too far the other way and wash them out.
Do you spell it grey or gray? Gray is more common in American English. Grey is more commonly used by the Brits. I spell it gray, but maybe we should defer to the Brits, given that gray/grey is the color of their sky 364 days out of the year.
I love the World focus and the region threads though I have not used the latter I think they are a great idea even if I never use them, but I will.
The colors are fine but personally, I love green… so why not more green instead of the brown-orange… but don’t get me wrong, I like all color and the pages are fine.
More world people? I don’t know, but I love that you ask… hmmm… maybe post comments at BBC forums and the like? come to think of it… I don’t go to enough international forums.
😛
the rest are staying…
Thanks for the welcome, Booman! I promise I’ll do Canada proud. I’ll have to or they’ll kick me out. Really. Although, I hear Tahiti is great. I could do Tahiti diaries. I’m sure they talk about Bush down there too. OTOH, maybe I should move to a country where they’ve never heard of him. Hmmm… I’m so confused.
I have a complaint/question/query type of statement: why is the defualt text setting so big in the diary entry section or is it just me?
Love the colors – especially the green.
Great idea with the regional threads, but if it were up to me – I’d flip the order. Not because the East Coast was (supposedly) settled first, but so it’s more of a logical geographical layout. And if you put the World area first, people may check it out more often.
I like the idea of the World Recommended Diaries.
I like the grey boxes.
However, I hate, hate, hate, the default comment boxes. (Want me to tell you how I really feel?) As it is now, when you scroll down the comment section – you see the same heading over and over. If commentators have to make up their own subject line, I think it would add more creativity and interest.
Only “complaint” – the frog looks distressed which makes me sad everytime I look at it.
Other than that, great site and I wish you the best.
I tried to cheer him up by offering a girlfriend:
… but apparently she wasn’t very ribeting!
a “return to homepage” link at the bottom of the threads?
I have a complaint. I’m viewing in dynamic threaded and cannot open the comments using the arrows. I can open comments by clicking “open” but that takes it into another window. Not the way I prefer to view them. Am I doing something wrong or is it a glitch?
Thanks.
I am too frigging tired and upset to post a diary, although one sorely needs written, as they say here south of the M/D line. This is the best I can do right now.
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2005/3/15/174210/184/39#39
Where’s my Booman firefox extension?
I will now go and cry myself to sleep.
anonymous on purpose? when i click on them, it just takes me to the comment, disembodied .
the diary page should have a warning like on dk, for when the diarist forgets to cut the diary to the extended text. I just posted one & only the first part posted. i clicked back & fixed it, but how do i delete the first, incomplete one? there’s no delete key!
I will delete the short one if you want.
the logo is up to you on principle, I love the expression and the character, it’s just the position of the body.
just a personal opinion… I’m not actually saying change it since you like it… doesn’t have to suit everyone of course.
she wants to lower the hands.
in fact I at first said so in that comment above but it got edited out as I worked the message to try to not be pushy because I have an aestetic opinion to offer but no instruction… it’s your site and your aestetic sense can trump without any real complaint from me though I do have opinions on it…
the figure has a lot of character and if the arms were lowered it would still convey the message and improve the overal appeal of the logo for me…
“whichever” is still fine but I do love that idea of lowering the arms… still cuffed is fine, maybe even foward pointing being led on the march… I’m hesitent with these opinions because I don’t want to micromange details of your well put together site… so forget all this immediately. 🙂
PS: he’s sort of like Mr. Toad from Wind In The Willows, isn’t he?
Boo, just decided to do a little check on your links (it’s just a habit of mine, don’t think I’m crazy) and I found two links that didn’t work correctly:
Liberal Streetfighter links to Booman Tribune
Cooperative Research needs a little fine tuning, there’s two addresses in the link, one is Booman Tribune.
Just thought you’d like to know.
You’ve done an AWESOME job with this site, so please don’t take this as me suggesting otherwise. 😉
Oh yeah, I do have one REAL complaint, “why have you not visited my diary?”
i fixed both links. Subtle HTML errors.
You’re very welcome. I just want to see people get to where they like to go (I know you want to keep them here ::tongue in cheek:: “I kid, I kid”).
Okay, I’m trying to post a diary, and I keep getting the above error message. I’ve filled in a title and both entry boxes, and see no box for a “topic”. It’s not letting me post the diary. What do I do? Or am I just being a dumbass?
Andy
Sarasota
me too…..HELP
I wanna complain about time zones! Unless I totally missed the setting somewhere, I can’t find a way to make the times show up as GMT (or anything other than PST, for that matter). Am I dumb or has it not been implemented yet?
Other than that, the site’s very cool.. good job, man!
(I love the gray/grey boxes!)
for time stuff, check your display preferences.
cool! I was looking at User Prefs before, not Display Prefs.. Looks good now though.
I stay for the Kid Oakland diaries!
Great job, Booman.
Hey, for “world diaries”, does it count if I live in Canada but am actually American?
Purdy colors you got, Booman.
then put Canada.
It’s where you live, not what your citizenship is.
I’ll make this more clear in the registration page eventually.
Just found you BooMan from a link in the C&J chat. Haven’t had a chance to look around yet, but will find some time for play. So, where do we get the mojo here? 😉
we do need a lot of mojo. No one is a trusted user yet as far as I know.
Maybe someone can create a mojo creating diary of some sort. A mojo frenzy zone.
that users here be liberal in doling out mojo, especially to known trusted uses using their DKos handle.
A good mojo diary is a great idea. I however cannot match the wit of BIPM.
not a complaint.
When a diary goes to the Recommended list, can Scoop take it off the Recent Diaries list, thus freeing up space there? I know the question was asked by someone else at dKos a while back, but don’t know the answer.
I could do this.
But once I fix up the recent diary bar to allow you to configure how many diaries you view there, I think it will be unnecessary.
Of course, I’ll listen to what the community thinks, and take that into consideration.
but I’m told I can’t leave the Topic field blank. I can’t find that field.
it’s still the color of your beard, booman.
posts (latest few) display when you are posting?
go to search.
It will list the most recent comments (by default).
You can also search for users, or other stuff.