Lean Left

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1. on March 17, 2010 at 4:12 pm Dan M.

   Cool features that you have sometimes turned on that I like:

   * Links in each particular post to the next and previous posts. (Oh! You have that! Any objection to putting them at the top instead of the bottom?)
   * Instead of the last 5 comments listed on the right sidebar, list the last 10.

   Ooo! You already got:

   * Each comment has a link that points to the particular comment.

   Also, it doesn’t really feel like a blog software update without you temporarily switching to some color scheme that makes the rest of us want to claw our eyes out. I feel gypped.

   (Honestly, this is actually quite nice. Thank you. In fact, as much as I generally complain, thanks for running this blog.)

   
   
2. on March 17, 2010 at 4:14 pm Dan M.

   Ah, you used to have comment editing, which was nice.

   Also, you may want to adjust whatever setting it is that caused this thread to get marked as related to “Put a Ring on It!”, though I can’t imagine what’s causing that.

   
   
3. on March 17, 2010 at 5:07 pm Kevin

   Dan

   This is hosted on WordPress.com now, which doesn’t give you much control over the shape of the theme. In exchange, it is MUCH cheaper than the previous hosting I had. If the links and the comment editing matter that much, I can try to find another theme.

   The recent comment block is now set to ten. The related links are supposed to get better with time. I am going to give it another couple of weeks, but so far I haven’t really been impressed.

   And I am glad you like the place. It’s folks like you and the other regulars coming around that make it worth doing.

   
   
4. on March 17, 2010 at 5:39 pm Dan M.

   I certainly don’t want you to beg you for your time, but I suspect comment editing would be popular enough to warrant some effort.

   One thing that looks like a “bug” rather than a feature request: Yell at KTK to update (or maybe you can do it as admin) whatever passes for his “real name” so that under the “Authors” sidebar, he’s “KTK” instead of “leanleft”, which is more than slightly confusing.

   
   
5. on March 17, 2010 at 5:42 pm Dan M.

   Um, what do us peons do to change the icon that’s ascribed to our comments. As much as I love being represented by a mutant rabbit in a onesie getting a shrubbery to the crotch…

   
   
6. on March 17, 2010 at 6:38 pm Standard Mischief

   Um, what do us peons do to change the icon that’s ascribed to our comments. As much as I love being represented by a mutant rabbit in a onesie getting a shrubbery to the crotch…

   gravatar.com

   I have a Pavatar, but it seems that absolutely no one uses that standard.

   I’d like to learn php and write a plug-in that would display the Pavatar, fall back onto a favicon, and then as a last resort use a gravatar.

   
   
7. on March 17, 2010 at 6:57 pm tgirsch

   Is CommentLuv dead with WordPress hosting?

   Also, it seems some of the categories imported multiple times.

   
   
8. on March 18, 2010 at 4:07 pm digglahhh

   Congrats on the new digs. (no pun intended)

   Can’t decide whether I like it better or not yet. Work’s been killing me, so I may not be around for a while. People who think all taxes are evil and that Juan Pierre is a better baseball player than Adam Dunn can consider themselves safe for a while!

   
   
9. on March 18, 2010 at 4:17 pm Kevin

   Dan and Tom

   The comment edit and the comment luv were plugins and plugins don;t work on WordPress.com. So far, I haven’t found replacements, but I will keep looking.

   I can revert to a no icon or an abstract pattern if you guys would prefer, for the comment pictures.

   Digg

   “Juan Pierre is a better baseball player than Adam Dunn can consider themselves safe for a while!”

   I refuse to believe those people exists – -they would have drowned in a rainstorm by now …

   
   
10. on March 18, 2010 at 5:10 pm Dan M.

    Thanks for trying on the plug-ins, Kevin. Also, yay for not getting spammed to death w/o capcha; i hope that continues being true.

    Well, I certainly don’t believe that Adam Dunn was better than Juan Pierre!

    …This is entirely because I’ve never heard of either of them.

    
    

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