If you are looking around the new digs, you will find all sorts of new functionality.
* Within a short amount of time, you can edit your posts.
* There is a bar for Share/Save, leading you to all sorts of social networking stuff (digg, fark, etc.)
* At the end of the timestamp on every comment, there is an arrow. If you click on that arrow, it will automatically start a new comment, linking to the comment you just clicked, so your comment will be auto referenced. And that explanation sucks. Example here. FAIL. This addon was causing carriage returns to be added to commenter posts. Maybe later.
* We have installed an addon that automatically formats long url’s that are not embedded.
* I can now add widgets to the sidebars at my leisure. Thinking about twitter.
* Yes, I know it is a new font, and as much as I hate change, I think the new font really looks good with the current design. And remember, when we were moving to Balloon Juice v. 1.0 to 2.0,the old font was the new font at one point. We all survived that transition, we will survive this one to Balloon Juice v. 3.0.
* Plus, I can now easily add audio clips.
There is a bunch more, and we are still addressing some bugs.
Have fun.
weird_science_stewwed
Ned Raggett
Really nicely done, all — it’s barely half a day since initial
rollout and a lot of things have already been fixed or improved,
above and beyond the general changes. Use the extra money from
donations to get yourselves a round of high quality drinks!
cleek
@Ned Raggett: i reference Ned for
the purposes of saying “ditto”. update: because i can! (looks like
update strips all the new lines from the post ?)
Alan
The link buttons no longer work correctly. And line spaces are no
longer recognized.
Comrade Darkness
I like the new banner. Nice mix of old and new, and right now, I
really identify with the little guy puffing away there, trying to
get the balloon to rise.
gbear
Just testing. I tried to post earlier today and my comment was sent
to purgatory because I was unauthorized. Things change so quickly
around here. Edit: well I see my post is here but I still got the
error message on my screen. What do I need to do to stop that?
Comrade Darkness
line spaces
we don’t need
no freakin
line spaces
Scrutinizer
@Alan: Just consider this an
opportunity to practice your coding skilz.
So far, I FAIL.
jcricket
Really nice redesign John. Way to inject some stimulus into the
comment-based-economy (better than McCain and Palin’s rape based
economy (hat tip, Patton Oswalt). My comment entry box (safari,
mac) is a little wide – covers the blogroll on the right (scroll
bar then doesn’t work right). Maybe fixed width a bit too wide? Do
all the little buttons work? Nope – looks like ordered list,
unordered list didn’t work right. That’s a bummer. Who doesn’t like
lists of points? What’s the difference between link and ext link (both go to the great orange
satan, fyi). Hmm, links seem not to be working right. Along with
pre, code, ul, ol tags. Any way to remove the tag buttons that
don’t actually format the comments?
Shinobi
So many buttons! I’m overwhelmed…. (ETA: I’m editing this because
I can. YAY for the new site!)
Andrew
I’m freaking out a little bit. I’m not sure about tables in
comments. The font is also a little weird. Edit: Tables don’t seem
to work, so why not eliminate the useless HTML tag buttons?
TheFountainHead
Hey, it’s like Fall today.
amorphous
@Shinobi: @jcricket: @Scrutinizer: @gbear: @Ned
Raggett: @cleek: @Alan: @Alan:
So many opportunities for abuse.
Comrade Grand Panjandrum
@cleek: Word. So far me likey. Will
be nice when the Orkin man/boy/woman/girl gets here to fumigate the
bugs however. All in all a pretty good launch. Interesting that
little reporting of new violence in Baghdad now that the Shiite
gummint controls the Sunni Awakening militias. Lets see how this
mother holds up.
Patrick Lightbody
Twitter FTW! But I actually think one of the FriendFeed widgets would look
nicer on this site, and it’d let us see more than just your tweets:
it’d let us see your diggs, bumps, bops, blips and Netflix rentals
(if you so choose). Here’s my FriendFeed, in case folks
aren’t aware of it.
Scrutinizer
How about now? bugger.
Patrick Lightbody
Dude – links are totally f’d. Old site FTW!
John Cole
Test. I am not sure why you all are having so much trouble with hyperlinks. They are working for me.
Scrutinizer
Dude – links are totally f’d. Old site FTW! Luddite.
Comrade The Moar You Know
Word Press Error? No thank you. This is a vast
improvement.
The Other Steve
This is pretty cool. I’m so totally going to steal all of this when
I launch my website. :-) Look at that! I’m editing! edit edit edit
edit.
Brian J
Since this thread is young and there aren’t a lot of responses and
I’m always away when a prime opportunity like this happens, I’m
going to make a few comments and ask some questions: 1. How
encouraging are the latest poll numbers? Not only are we leading by
five to ten points in some of the traditional swing states, but
we’re down by six in Georgia, eight in Mississippi, and nine in
Texas. Some of them may be outliers, sure, but I’ve read blog posts
that say Chuck Todd on MSNBC, among others, is starting to say that
things aren’t looking good for McCain right now. One example of the
alarm sounding is that he’ll be in Missouri later this week, a
state he shouldn’t have to worry about now. 2. Should I go and see
Steve Doocy from Faux News and ask him about his ridiculous
comments about Sarah Palin and Russia? I was walking past the
Barnes & Noble near my work the other day and saw that he’ll be
there in a few weeks. I’m tempted to, but I don’t want to look like
a maniac. 3. One of the comments that I’ve heard when the financial
crisis is being discussed is that one of our problems is that we
don’t make anything any longer. All we do is push and trade paper.
Overall, our economy has moved in that direction, but we now have
services like Mobile Me from Apple that can sync all of the
information on different systems the instantly one part of that
system is changed, and it’s not free. In other words, we may not
make things like cars or shoes as much we used to, but is that such
a bad thing?
chiggins
Nice. Smells like new blawg too. Oh check me out, editing
my comment with lightbox-ajax magic. Yes!
Scrutinizer
Formatting is a challenge, though.
The Other Steve
Don’t click edit twice. It’s bad.
Comrade jnfr
This is good. I can read your posts again. Looks like your comment
box is putting a hard return at the end of each line. I use a
larger font size due to my eyes not working so perfectly, and
everyone’s posts are wrapped unevenly. But readable! Thank you. And
I like the Optima-style font, myself.
reid
Kudos on the new deal. Ees nice. And you even solved my biggest
little gripe, the lack of the post name in the title! When I have
200+ tabs open to BJ, it’s nice to see the title in the tab.
I hope someone has mocked redstate unmerciful about this.
Patrick Lightbody
Link test: Fail
Patrick Lightbody
Link test 2: Fail one and
Fail two
Comrade The Moar You Know
Oy, blockquote is borked.
4tehlulz
@reid: If only the coders weren’t so
liberal, they can refs comments like Wonkette us!
4tehlulz
@4tehlulz: OK this is BS that strike
of Wonkette showed in preview.
Patrick Lightbody
John – I’ve figured out what’s wrong with links. One link works
fine, but two or more breaks. I shall put on my nerd hat to explain
why…. The cause is almost certainly due to a “greedy” regular
expression, possibly due to one of the plugins you added that
auto-links things. It is creating a link from the start of the
first link all the way to the end of the second link. I suggest you
try disabling some of your fancy new plugins and see if the links
in the comments get better (use my “Link test 2” comment as your
test). The good news is that the underlying content is likely not
corrupt, so it can be fixed without loosing data.
Laertes
It’s all gorgeous. Very well done. Love it.
Alan
@John Cole: It could be because you
are a logged in member of your own site. Evidently, there is some
functionality within WordPress that strips down some html tags for
visitors which messes up the formating.
JL
IMO. Tonights drinking game should not contain words such as YEAH
or ya. What we might consider is a shot for everytime Joe Biden
grimaces at Sarah’s remarks but not a shot for every time that
Sarah smirks and smiles at Joe’s response. Tomorrow is Friday and
it is a workday for many of our fine folks. Of course, this is
John’s blog and he can suggest what he deems appropriate.
reid
@4tehlulz: I was going to say, a bit
early to be hitting the sauce! Until the site settles down, best to
speak in plain, short, single-paragraph, all-english, non-code
sentences. There goes half the site’s charm….
Rob R
I use the same Add To Any Share / Save button on my Web site, and
there’s a simple, minor edit to the plugin you can do so it only
opens when you click it. Those Javascript hover menus that pop up
when you mouse over them can be irritating as hell. The fix is
here, since embedding links is fail:
http://www.addtoany.com/buttons/faq/#onclick
Comrade The Moar You Know
link test: Calculated
Risk
Comrade The Moar You Know
does strikethrough work? Let’s find out: Sarah Palin is a
smartextremely stupid woman. It works if you hand-codeit.
reid
I cringe that Palin is being directed to be more folksy and more
base-inspiring sarcastically snotty. I feel a blood vessel in my
forehead clamping down already. If you hear a distant wet pop,
you’ll know what it is.
4tehlulz
Testing strike: If only the coders weren’t so liberal, they can
refs comments like
Wonketteus!Comrade The Moar You Know
image button?
Comrade The Moar You Know
image button still fails. Hand-code?: <img
src=”http://i526.photobucket.com/albums/cc342/arbiterusa/01th_OMG.gif”>
SGEW
But what if I have no coding skillz? So embarrassing.
Hell, back when I was a kid I used to have fun messin’ around w/ C,
setting up B.B.S.’s, and grepping Autoconfig files. Then I got a
Mac when I was 17 (personal disclosure: which was quite a while
ago, but not that long ago). Now I just expect things to
work immediately, in the easiest way possible. Serves me right, I
guess. (imagine line break here)
I’m telling “ya,” tonight’s debate is not a
good opportunity for a drinking game (take it from me: I’ve been
hosting drinking games for (almost) every State of the Union speech
and presidential debate since @2000). Biden and Palin are so full
of either: ridiculously predictable patterns (“ya,” “’em,” etc.
from Palin, “literally” from Biden); or so gaffe/flub prone that it
throws th’ whole pacing out of whack before you even start. Damn
you, V.P. candidates! You have ruined my game!
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
@The Other Steve: Actually, I’m
editing twice without experiencing total protonic reversal, but any
text I copy and paste in here shows up as one para. I’ve put in
line breaks twice, but it’s still a lump of text.
comrade scott
John: All the stuff you’re talking about is gravy. The fact that
the page actually FUCKING WORKS for more than 3 nanoseconds at a
time is fanfuckingtastic.
Comrade The Moar You Know
no moar images :(
cleek
hmm… :)
Comrade Elroy's Lunch
Very nice. Well done.
4tehlulz
@Comrade The Moar You Know: Your
dream of turning this into /b/ has been ruined.
jake
So is the End of the Internons big black space I see in place of
comments a special treat reserved for FireFox users? OMG and edit
button. Someone get ready to tranq. TZ.
Blue Neponset
I like the new digs John. (edited to add: this comment was edited)
SGEW
[Imagine that the following is in a blockquote:] The fact that the
page actually FUCKING WORKS for more than 3 nanoseconds at a time
is fanfuckingtastic. [Imagine that the blockquote ends here] . . .
[imagine that there’s a line break here] . . . Bah. The
WordPress>Error firewall used to kept out the riff-raff. I am
feeling nostalgic! I shall now imagine that everything used to be
absolutely perfect, a golden age, and that now everything has gone
to hell. Why, in my day, our comments automatically self-corrected
to be as erudite and concise as humanely possible. And everytime
the site loaded incorrectly, I got a cookie. GET OFF MY LAWN! [at
least the edit feature works, so that I can insert my imaginary
codes]
Fledermaus
I think the new font really looks good with the current
design. BRING BACK THE SERIFS!
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
Oh. Editing twice IS bad because edit preview lies like a rug. I
got in before the countdown was over, left a brief comment the
second time I edited, but it left the last edit in place. Let me
try copy and paste again. Maybe the text lump is associated with
the back-link function. Dr. Egon Spengler: There’s something very
important I forgot to tell you. Dr. Peter Venkman: What? Dr. Egon
Spengler: Don’t cross the streams. Dr. Peter Venkman: Why? Dr. Egon
Spengler: It would be bad. Dr. Peter Venkman: I’m fuzzy on the
whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, “bad”? Dr. Egon Spengler:
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and
every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. Dr Ray
Stantz: Total protonic reversal. Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That’s
bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
OK, here’s how edit seems to work. 1. Editing shows your original
unedited post to you after revision, making you think editing
didn’t work. This makes you cry a little. 2. Then, after you make a
new post about what an EPIC FAIL your editing attempt was, you can
see that your original post was removed, but your edited post shows
up as a new comment further down the streams. 3. Therefore,
crossing the streams is bad. Feature or bug? (Seriously John and
team, this seems like typical growing pains for a new
implementation. It looks really good and I’m sure things will sort
out soon.)
Nathan R
I’m just stoked that there’s a link to the previous and next thread
in the comments page. No more clicking back on my browser! Oh, and
that the site has changed its name back to Balloon Juice. Much
punchier than Word Press Error.
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
Forget the VP debate drinking game. The BJ site test drinking game
starts, like, NOW.
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
Forget the VP debate drinking game. The BJ site test drinking game
starts, like, NOW.
littlesky
I’m liking it so far, but then I like change. edit: just
checking.
Tsulagi
Site looks pretty good. Like it got a good cleaning and wax job and
is now all shiny. Best improvement by far seems to have come from
Annette. The site loads, and pretty quickly. Some bugs still. I
can’t get blockquotes to work either manually putting in the tags
or using the buttons. Line spaces don’t seem to work consistently
either. I tried using Edit in a post in the previous thread to
correct it. Looking at my comment in Edit there were line spaces,
but not when it re-posted. Also, if using Firefox 3.x threads go
black after 150 or so comments. But they show up fine with IE 7.
But you probably know about the bugs and they’ll be corrected in a
few days. Let Annette do it. Only style complaint I have is the
text in blockquotes that do happen. The big-ass bolded font. I’d go
with your default text font with the user being able to bold or
not.
Tsulagi
Still no fucking line spaces.
And can’t fix it with Edit. I’m sure
Annette will get to it later.
Do like the Edit feature, though.
I’ve changed this comment twice. But still can’t get a line space
in Edit.
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
@jake: I’ve already informed TZ – he
is happy. ;)
Punchy
hey, yall. Q. What time is the debates tonite, central daylite
time?
Punchy
Uh……WTF?
Kevin
it’s at 8:00 Edit: FAIL.
Jay
Hot digs, John, although as a fellow cat owner, I have to ask if
you cleared the move with Tunch first.
Г-жа demimondian
Speaking of blawgs, dawgs, and hawgs, Polano “Nate” Silver really
took Real Clear Politics to the woodshed today:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/real-credibility-problems.html
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
Punchy, I have a brother who is a Rush Limbaugh dittohead and who
lives in Wichita. I’m sure he is probably very proud of what this
mayor is doing. OMFG!
The Other Steve
You gotta see the clip of the view… where Elizabeth is taken
down by Baba Walters.
Scott H
I really like the new digs. I am not a big fan of design by
committee (I am a survivor of that process, and those who are still
employed in that kind of system know whereof I speak), but I
appreciate BJers feedback taken in consideration.
I trust John Cole to exercise restraint (however much I consider
a single YouTube embed and a snark the lazy man’s commentary),
but I much fear unfettered “rich” media in the comments.
Can we drink through the Balloon Juice debugging and the
Vice Presidential Debate both? I believe we can. Yes, we can!
The Other Steve
RCP is a Republican group. If they aren’t clear about
that on their website, they deserve to be taken to the woodshed.
They’re take on politics is quite obviously slanted.
Annette
This is a test. There is a line break here now.
The Other Steve
Oh tags are all screwed up.
Scott H
Just my imagination, or are comments disappearing?
SGEW
Testing testing.
line break
test test
line break test
hey, whaddy’a know?
Comrade Napoleon
Re Brian @21 Those poll numbers are good, they have happened in
enough polls and ther is a big enough margin that even if they are
off, its hard to imagine that they could be so far off that Obama
is not going to win, if the election was today. But I hate to be
this optomistic, because that always seems to happen right before I
get crushed.
Comrade Napoleon
The other steve said :Speaking of blawgs, dawgs, and hawgs, Polano
“Nate” Silver really took Real Clear Politics to the woodshed
today: That was great. Speaking of Nate Silver Brian who asked
about the polls should look at Nates post today on how Obama can
win today even if he throws away every state he does not lead by 5.
test edit – test
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
Awwww, I just read that poor widdle Ewizabeth Hassewbeck wants to
leave The View… awwww. – Don’t let the door hit your ass honey..
tata, so long, bye bye! :)
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
Yes, comments are being sent down a hole never to be seen again, I
fear.
I noticed the XHTML Tags Available listing on another thread,
what is “cite” and does it do the same thing as a blockquote?
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
I noticed the XHTML Tags Available listing on another thread,
what is “cite” and does it do the same thing as a
blockquote?
Well, let’s find out, I guess… Hmmm. Oh, it just turns the
quoted text into italics?
cite> Nope! Okay, got it now.
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
well that’s strange, it looked like cite was italics in preview,
but it comes out bold and in higher pixeled text, Aha! I’m
learning.
reid
That "View" dope should just get herself an AM radio talk show preaching to the choir. Obviously has trouble thinking outside of the Republican box.
Wini
Yay! Names at the top of posts on the Blackberry.. Very happy
Ryan S.
I figured out what’s causing the black box problem…. I think
When I reduce the size of the font the blacked out portion of the page is reduced, and by making the font small enough the black disappears all together. I suspect you’re running off the end of the page element. Not sure exactly how things are set up whether it uses a div element or something else but your running off the end of it.
Likewise by making the fonts bigger ( ctrl + mouse wheel up or down) I can make the black appear even though normally it wouldn’t.
Delia
so how do you do a link?
Just http://www.americablog.com/
http://www.americablog.com/
/blog
Well I don’t see that as working very well? Can you embed links? And the really long threads still go black on me and I can’t read them or post on them. Nuts.
Tester
Test
Test
Test
Test
T.E.ST.
Comrade Peter J
Comrade Peter J
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Comrade Peter J
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Comrade Peter J
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littlesky
Testing something too. Hope no one minds.
littlesky
This is supposed to be a link to america blog
This is also a link to America Blog