Comments on: Five Years Old http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:14:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: lemuel pitkin http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/comment-page-2/#comment-246964 lemuel pitkin Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:27:09 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=7084#comment-246964 Very small request: The logo should link to the homepage. Very small request: The logo should link to the homepage.

]]> By: Eszter Hargittai http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/comment-page-2/#comment-246960 Eszter Hargittai Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:30:26 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=7084#comment-246960 I'm going to add myself to the list of folks requesting the previous and next post links. Thanks for all the work on this, Kieran! I’m going to add myself to the list of folks requesting the previous and next post links.

Thanks for all the work on this, Kieran!

]]> By: Nabakov http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/comment-page-2/#comment-246921 Nabakov Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:04:15 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=7084#comment-246921 Doesn't work in Mosaic. Doesn’t work in Mosaic.

]]> By: Kenny Easwaran http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/comment-page-2/#comment-246918 Kenny Easwaran Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:43:17 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=7084#comment-246918 Can you please please please bring back the links to previous post and next post? It's so much easier to go to a live bookmark for the oldest post I haven't read, and then just use "next post" to scroll through to each new post, rather than going to the home page, expanding links for ones that are continued "below the fold", and reading things in reverse temporal order. I think that's my biggest pet peeve about any sort of blog layout. Maybe there are better ways to read blogs where the next and previous post buttons aren't quite as important? Can you please please please bring back the links to previous post and next post? It’s so much easier to go to a live bookmark for the oldest post I haven’t read, and then just use “next post” to scroll through to each new post, rather than going to the home page, expanding links for ones that are continued “below the fold”, and reading things in reverse temporal order.

I think that’s my biggest pet peeve about any sort of blog layout. Maybe there are better ways to read blogs where the next and previous post buttons aren’t quite as important?

]]> By: W. Kiernan http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/comment-page-2/#comment-246901 W. Kiernan Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:20:33 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=7084#comment-246901 My ideal of a <strike>good</strike> <i>great</i> looking weblog is your man Davies's blog, <a HREF="http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">D-squared Digest.</a> Much less fluffy stuff, infinitely more comment preview. Focus, focus! Disclaimer: I haven't gotten a haircut for at least the last fifteen years. I'd also like to point out to those who don't know this yet, that users of Firefox 2 can make almost any web page nearly as beautiful and eyeball-friendly as D^2's by View pull-down menu / Page Style / No style. My ideal of a good great looking weblog is your man Davies’s blog, D-squared Digest. Much less fluffy stuff, infinitely more comment preview. Focus, focus!

Disclaimer: I haven’t gotten a haircut for at least the last fifteen years.

I’d also like to point out to those who don’t know this yet, that users of Firefox 2 can make almost any web page nearly as beautiful and eyeball-friendly as D^2’s by View pull-down menu / Page Style / No style.

]]> By: Doug http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/comment-page-2/#comment-246879 Doug Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:58:04 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=7084#comment-246879 Also congratulations, also looks good. Glad you're numbering the comments! Wish list: previous/next post; illustration also links to homepage; some way to access the old wood. I rather liked the categories and tags, though Lawyers Guns & Money is the champion of the artful tag set. Am also ruminating on the differences between "publish" and "submit." Also congratulations, also looks good. Glad you’re numbering the comments!

Wish list: previous/next post; illustration also links to homepage; some way to access the old wood.

I rather liked the categories and tags, though Lawyers Guns & Money is the champion of the artful tag set.

Am also ruminating on the differences between “publish” and “submit.”

]]> By: Anderson http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/comment-page-2/#comment-246853 Anderson Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:02:44 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=7084#comment-246853 Looks good -- a definite improvement. Even in IE. Looks good—a definite improvement. Even in IE.

]]> By: James Wimberley http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/comment-page-2/#comment-246848 James Wimberley Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:52:54 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=7084#comment-246848 Blast, the central quartet of carets "^^^^" disappeared. <i>Bring back preview.</i> Blast, the central quartet of carets “” disappeared. Bring back preview.

]]> By: James Wimberley http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/comment-page-2/#comment-246847 James Wimberley Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:51:05 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=7084#comment-246847 New grouch. The links to the previous/next posts have disappeared from the heading, so you have to navigate with the browser arrow or go back to home, which may be some way from the post you were reading. I appreciate the desire to avoid clutter, but surely three navigational arrows would do the trick: <<<>>> You see , I don't have to explain them. New grouch. The links to the previous/next posts have disappeared from the heading, so you have to navigate with the browser arrow or go back to home, which may be some way from the post you were reading. I appreciate the desire to avoid clutter, but surely three navigational arrows would do the trick:
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You see , I don’t have to explain them.

]]> By: James Wimberley http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/comment-page-2/#comment-246846 James Wimberley Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:32:14 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=7084#comment-246846 Oh, and thanks for fixing the horrid pale grey citations (my grouch in #20) already. The left-hand bar does the job just fine. Oh, and thanks for fixing the horrid pale grey citations (my grouch in #20) already. The left-hand bar does the job just fine.

]]> By: James Wimberley http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/comment-page-2/#comment-246845 James Wimberley Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:29:06 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=7084#comment-246845 Bad Jim in #35: "I like the privileged blogger block in aqua." Shouldn't they be in pinko? Bad Jim in #35: “I like the privileged blogger block in aqua.”
Shouldn’t they be in pinko?

]]> By: Aidan Kehoe http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/comment-page-2/#comment-246843 Aidan Kehoe Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:31:55 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=7084#comment-246843 I like the new format, and I don’t see any problems with Firefox 3, neither on OS X nor Windows XP. I like the new format, and I don’t see any problems with Firefox 3, neither on OS X nor Windows XP.

]]> By: harry b http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/comment-page-2/#comment-246835 harry b Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:14:06 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=7084#comment-246835 Celebrate by listening to this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lFVUWsPdto It was written for Martha Wainwright, not us, but that's the way it goes. Celebrate by listening to this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lFVUWsPdto

It was written for Martha Wainwright, not us, but that’s the way it goes.

]]> By: Ben http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/comment-page-1/#comment-246832 Ben Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:24:42 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=7084#comment-246832 Just looking over this page again now, and have a suggestion that may or may not be heeded - how about not having the Lumber Room in its entirety (just a link) on the comments pages, with the same going for the list of contributors? At the moment, the layout squashes the comments into a half-page space; this seems a little unnecessary seeing as the whole purpose of this page is for comments and reader opinion. Just looking over this page again now, and have a suggestion that may or may not be heeded – how about not having the Lumber Room in its entirety (just a link) on the comments pages, with the same going for the list of contributors?

At the moment, the layout squashes the comments into a half-page space; this seems a little unnecessary seeing as the whole purpose of this page is for comments and reader opinion.

]]> By: Ben http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/19/five-years-old/comment-page-1/#comment-246831 Ben Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:21:43 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=7084#comment-246831 Congratulations on five years - I came across Crooked Timber only recently, after reading an article on the web's best blogs in the Guardian, and have plumbed the depths of interesting information and opinion ever since. The new layout does seem a little oversized on my Windows FFx3, and has quite a lot of 'defined space'. Congratulations on five years – I came across Crooked Timber only recently, after reading an article on the web’s best blogs in the Guardian, and have plumbed the depths of interesting information and opinion ever since.

The new layout does seem a little oversized on my Windows FFx3, and has quite a lot of ‘defined space’.

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