8 December 2000
Submitted by eve on Fri, 12/08/2000 - 12:00am. News
Three items today:

The first is that, due to lack of entries, a "Contest" link has been added to the left navigation bar for now. Please send your submissions in!

Second, the ability to preview your comments before you post them has been added, so that you can preview what you say before you say it. Be sure to use it when you post to avoid putting your foot in your mouth or stepping on someone's toes!

And finally, the comment display code has been sped up tremendously, so that the comments pages will load much, much faster. The more comments there are, the more significant the speed up is going to be, and if there's less than 25 comments total for the topic there won't be a difference, but for things like the Passed By, which now has more than 800 comments, the page loads significantly faster.

If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working right, be sure to let me know so I can check it out. Sorry about the spotty breakages this afternoon, but live pages are more fun to edit, after all.

Enjoy the enhancements, and if there's anything you think would enhance the site, don't hesitate to let me know! Thanks for the support!

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 01/11/2001 - 12:23pm.
Archived comment by Mike:
Oh. I didn't realize that you did this retroactively for the other news comments, too!
Um, I just wanted to say "sorry" for slapping my contribution to the name contest directly onto the site. I can't help but feel at least a little responsible for stifling the freedom of the whole thing by putting my suggestion in such a prominent place. Rest assured that I've learned my lesson about what should be discussed *here* and what should be restricted to e-mail or kept to yourself. ;^)
Oh, and I've also been working on keeping my comments condensed. (They seem condensed to *me*, anyway.) Sorry about *that*, too. I'll be more careful in the future, I promise.

"Now let us never speak of this again."
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