TMD: Home of our namesake.
MG: While the rhyming/rapping crew is out for quick sensitivity training, a note on The Dispatch. Yesterday, Ryan Brown, The Dispatch Community Manager, replied to our feedback email from two weeks ago, apologizing for the delayed response, and giving thanks for the feedback, while noting that our critiques had been forwarded to their web development team. He regretted sounding like a broken record, and said the improvements to the new site would continue to be rolled out.
I thanked him for the response (which I’d essentially told him not to bother with) and sympathized that things were particularly busy due to the Chicago meet-up and the election news cycle. Clearly, they will be stretched as thin as the rest of us else till at least early January.
As Bill Mc reported from the Chicago meet-up, Steve and Ryan do seem quite sincere about making the comment section to work well, not least as a means of developing subscriber loyalty.
There have been some features added since the critique was sent, but not all of them work well—certainly not as reliably as on Substack. For instance, the page has to be reloaded to see new comments, and after the reload some comments still disappear. Nonetheless, comment numbers at the new site seem to have rebounded somewhat, and seem to be stable. But you also can’t see those numbers readily, since they aren’t displayed on the homepage—another sorely missed “feature” along with clear publication date and visited-link indication that would be welcome.
At any rate, we’ll still be here, monitoring developments.
Afternoon Peeps....
Been a really busy morning and first chance I had to come here.
My paycheck issue resolved just under the wire of when it was going to be a mess, so happy about that. Only bad thing is I couldn't pay my mortgage in time, because I was afraid I would and the check deposit wouldn't come in time and be rejected.
Making progress on Christmas stuff and still on my Christmas "high"...lol
Been reading mostly headlines with most stuff ( and short aggregates from Raw Story), and not posting much anywhere political, working for me,...lol
Today's German compound word telling the story of the war in Ukraine:
Folterspuren = signs (marks) of torture