No, actually, I was poking fun at myself.  I need my spell check!  Otherwise, you just never know what hell Jafo will have to clean up.  lol

I was on the forums today and noticed that I have the less fancy, but works with ieSpell text editor on there, too.  Yay!  KarmaGirl is just hoping that it's not a "bug" that it's there..... 

I just had another go at posting an article, and one thing stood out at me - it would take a half a second or so for each letter I typed to appear on the screen, with considerable lag if I typed a whole sentence.

Could the issue be that an iBook with a 1.2ghz pre-core2duo processor just can't handle the load of the new JU? It doesn't seem to struggle with any other website, but is there some uber-complex script at work that would be making it chug and time-out?

On the spell check front, I've noticed that the native mac spellchecker still works on reply boxes and the article entry box.

Ditto this KarmaGirl. This would be awesome! I'm so sick of seeing kickinforpoo's right-wing evangelical, Christian, bullshit posts every time I go to the site.

Ditto everything BlueDev said too. BTW, thanks for posting this Frogboy, and thanks for working on JU.

Thanks for the free ice cream....

and on that note. I miss the (longer) recent article list from JU1 that was always on the sidebar. It was nice to immediately be able to jump to the next one I wanted to check out without having to search through the forums or click back and forth...

It would be nice to have the WC and JU forums separate. Now when I login to WC forums I need to set ZA Security to accept third party cookies from forums.joeuser.com or the login fails. I'm not on JU, I'm here at WC .

Some testing with non-standard Web browser would be nice.

I don't understand why JoeUser.com keeps asking for a user name in OmniWeb AND simply doesn't accept a login attempt done the usual way.

 

We do not support Apple browsers on any of our sites yet.  This is not likely to change in the near future.  We're trying to spend our time and resources hitting the 90%+ portion of the market that uses IE/Firefox.  Once we have those nailed, then we'll move on to the more popular alternative browsers such as Safari and Opera.

Why?  Because every single browser renders pages differently.  CSS, Javascript, often basic HTML are all done just a bit differently so we have to write custom cases for each browser.  Once we get it nailed down for the big guys, then we'll consider spending time on the edge browsers.

I am slowly figuring out how the new set up works, but right now my two requests would be:

1. Delete comment feature back.

2. The forums remembering which comment you read last on a given post so that you don't have to scroll or click on the appropriate page number and then scroll.

Thanks.

One feature I'd like to see as a reader, is the ability to read an entire article from the front page of a particular blog.  I understand the loss of statistical data doing so, but I don't believe it is fair to force the end-user to have to click on every article to read it.  Maybe make it a profile setting for a logged in user?

Also, if you could get the ads put into the feeds, why post the entire article through RSS too?  I use an aggregator to read a ton of feed include a few here, and hate to have to open a new browser window to read an article I might be interested in.  I may be inclined to be more picky about what I read.

One more issue. Sometimes in the forums an article will indicate a new reply (via a new last commenter and a higher comment number) but it takes several minutes to be able to see that reply. Clicking on the article will lead you to the same comments you've already seen, minus the new reply.

I don't know if I explained that well or if it's just me but that has happened to me several times with different threads I'm participating in.

1. On the main page, stack the items vertically instead of vertically and horizontally. This would emilinate the fact that most of the blog titles in the "recent post" and "recent comments" are cut off and unreadable.

2. Longer list of recent posts and comments. This is main reason i use JU, as it allows good articles to be found and commented on.

 

3. Support for Windows Live Writer, bvecause it sure as heck ain't working for me.

 

Thanks...overall love the new feel.

What happened to reply 4 in the forums?

That's a pain. I'm guessing that means there are some big differences between Firefox for Mac and Firefox for PC then. If you ever do get around to doing the Mac Firefox browser it would be great to have it working.

I'm too rarely at home to use my PC much, so I guess my words of (published) wisdom won't be on JU much any more except as replies!

EDIT: I decided to have a little experiment, and as it turns out Mac users can create articles in Safari without any issues. So the protocol will need to be Safari for making articles and Firefox as before for replying to them.

That was easier than I expected.

I like it, and am certainly getting used to the navigation. After reading about upcoming changes/improvements and more customization features, I don't really have any suggestions either. I like it, I said.