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Some wee changes have occurred here overnight! Upgrades and things. We may be a little bit dodgy this morning. Send us your bug reports if you like (include browser and operating system and pictures if you can)!
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You’re always dodgy.
This site sucks! Bring back Gawker!
EDIT: Editing comments is the one good feature. I can now update things when I\\’m wrong, so that I can make myself even more wrong.
EDIT AGAIN: It\'s not acting well when it\'s printing apostrophes, eh? it\'s it\'s it\'s it\'s it\'s
Bring back Oxfeld dude.
To get rid of the slashes before apostrophes that you edit into your posts, hit the "edit" button again, delete the slashes, fix all your paragraph spacing and resubmit. Now that they're smart quotes the script won't read them the same way.
Dude I totally did not respek the form. "They like bringing back Oxfeld generally." Sorry, Nic.
WHAT TEMPERATURE IS IT SHOULD I WEAR A COAT OR A THONG I’M SO CONFUSED.
Also, way to make the Awl exist in the perpetual present. You’re now either Buddhists or millennials, I’m not sure which.
ETA: R.I.P. most least viewed. You were too lovely for this world.
ETA: Also, what the hell with the contracting paragraph padding when you edit? You’re expecting me to hit return TWICE? Oh and hey, apparently the apostrophes are fine when originally typed but go bonkershits (\"start Brianvanning\") when you edit.
Everything is still in flux, do not fear. Meanwhile, it's 51, going up to 64. Dress appropriately.
THUMBS UP TO THIS COMMENT.
/edit: it seems that each time I leave a reply or click over to another page and then return, my thumbs-ups go away. So I\'m just going to keep up-thumbing people all day long, with no consequences, at work. Take that, Clarence Thomas\'s wife!
@Astig: I'm finger-blasting your comment out the wazoo.
@Astigmatism: Same: losing thumbs-ups when I navigate away and back.
And OPPOSABLE THUMBS DISTINGUISH US FROM LOWER FORMS OF LIFE!
Can't wait for Alex "Tex Antoine" Balk's Weather Report to be a regular feature. Can you wear a bowtie?
MORE HELVETICA?
For some reason (thank you, locked-down work system), I don't get a comment box on posts that have 0 comments.
On the other hand, this is probably for the best. Thanks!
Oh, seriously though, clicking on a username to see their other posts gives me a "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria" page.
You have to tab over to "comments" rather than posts. Then scroll down forever because they're sorted from earliest to latest and not paginated. I expect this will be changed soon so don't spend too much time learning it.
Ohhh, sneaky. All right, back to stalking!
Okay, here's a bug indeed: when I hit "reply" to Gef, the comment box was pre-populated with that shit about centipedes.
Anyway, currently enjoying the reverse chronology of old comments. Gef's first words to world were:
Ooo, an ELIZA namedrop -and- a themed comment. Be still, my blinktagged heart.
Paul Smith does some very nice shirts that are pretty much exactly that kind of floral print. And they cost about the same. FLOWER PRINT TIE + FLOWER PRINT SHIRT = NEW HOTNESS.
In the UK, the octopus is officially classified as an "honorary vertebrate," so either they have a really good lobby (octopuses) or I don't understand them at all (the British).
*plotz!*
Auspicious, although I suspect it's all a coded message to the robot-overlord spy handlers.
Fuck, now everyone's going to know that my first comment was a pun.
Don't be ashamed of puns, Doc. I lol at every pun. Then again, I'm a simpleton.
Font is different on front page vs. when you click through to the post?
EDITING! It\'s what\'s for dinner!
That miiiiight be your cache? OR NOT WHO KNOWS! Haha. Science.
Cleared El Cache and hard refreshed, still seeing a different font on front page, post page, and comments.
What are the fonts? Email screengrab if you can? david@theawl.com
@David: Sending…
Bug reports? There's a really gross centipede on my page.
We are only interested in what the centipede has to say.
I love KUO and am planning to go recommend every comment she’s ever made, but I just recommended the above one three times by myself? So you could just sit there and click the little thumb a zillion times but it would only be one somewhat OCDish person.
Oo! and then they went away again?
I was going to complain that it wasn’t keeping me logged in, and then I realized it was because my browser crashed (on another page, not the Awl!), and I had to restart it, which clears the cache.
Or, in summary, I am an idiot. (But you probably already knew that.)
ETA: I like the edit function, but the countdown timer is kind of stressing me out. Like, I\\’m worried the Awl is going to blow up unless I edit my comment.
The bad news is that I shiver and cry all through any variety of change (I still miss the third tier of our nested comments! oh, syntax); the good news is that the editing feature will help me cook a poached egg–
The incredible editable edible comments!
ugh. no. don't like this new font.
It's like when Word started defaulting to Calibri. Too skinny and hard to read! Make it fatter!
The rest of that Word update was so horrifying I barely even noticed the font.
As obsessive as I am about fonts, that is saying a lot.
Oh but Calibri is so good!
Yes Craig, I've gotten to the point where Times New Roman looks horribly outdated. But it took some time!!
This is no Calibri, though (seriously, what is it?!?!)
Or maybe it is! Except more smooshy looking, somehow.
I was all, ”naw bro it totally is,” but you figured it out on your own. HOORAY EDITS!
But now that I'm home and on Firefox is is Arial (ARIAL?!?! c'mon, guys!) and I am so confused!
I'm rather a Calibri fan myself.
In the interest of consistency,I'd like the titles of the posts to be in the same style of font as the content of the posts, please.
I would like to be more popular plz!
Also! Thx for the reverse chronological option! good for us who read the awl in + timezones and don't want to miss one comment.
Add whore diamonds.
I HATE CHANGE
ME TOO!
OH HEY! EDIT FUNCTION!
CHANGE NOT SO BAD
WE FEAR CHANGE
WHO'S THREAD?
Popularity? Dude, this is going to end with someone taking my lunch money.
So I Fonzied Jolie’s post to see if it works. It does. I don’t know if that means she has the conch or I have the conch. EDIT: now it\'s gone. No conch.
MOST LEAST POPULAR. EXCLUDE HIM.
I like reverse chronological! I HATE the font. I also don't like that the list of comments on the commentor pages are chronological instead of reverse-chronological. THAT IS ALL.
"Deleted By User" is just borderline creepy. Can you at least replace the question mark avatar with a kitty photo, like the Hype Machine does?
I want a "Used by deleter" comment.
Second Keiser's suggestion, but a bear seems more appropriate somehow.
Yay edit! Boo stupid thumb shit that every board has now. We all know who the Cool Kids of The Awl are; no need to shove us unpopular nerds\' faces in it.
Most importantly, though: WHERE\'S THE ALT-TXT?!? the only reason I come here is for the bears and the alt-txt!
@vulpes I just liked your comment — mostly as a meaningless gesture to console you – and the thumb turned green, which is cool!
Aw, thank you! Consolation achieved!
Sometimes there is gray box in the middle of the page that has useful articles on how an area mom makes $5000 per month working from home or the truth about Acai berries. Other times it's just blank.
More useful articles in the gray box, please.
For example, where can I buy some turtles?
Similarly, when the gray box offers a listicle of "five stupid things rich people do," the guy in the stock photo has eerily small hands. Please give him bigger hands ASAP.
@Multiphasic: I have an irrational fear of men with small hands!
@garge: Is it because they're all carnies?
I can haz old font back?
The awl just emptied my bank account. Is that a browser problem or do I call the FBI?
Well, did you accuse the Awl of putting a pubic hair on your Coke? Maybe you owe the Awl an apology.
Font takes me back to my second novel typed on one of those IBM prop spacing Executive typewriters. Not a pleasant memory.
Wo. Now that I have only 4mins and 31 secs to edit my comment I'm feeling all kinds of pressure.
Wait a minute, the e-mail address submission blank is gone. Does this mean I'm no longer signed up to not receive a newsletter?
I'm convinced that they DO send out the newsletter every day. It's just that they send them out to Chinese teenagers who have no idea who they are or what they're talking about.
I had a really hard time logging in, but I think that's cause I'm a crackface, not because of the site redesign.
I'm forced to log in each time restart IE8 (work). I've allowed all cookies from theawl.com, which didn't fix it.
Working on this!
LOVE that we can edit! THANK YOU!
The countdown clock gives me some anxiety, though. Did I make a mistake…it looks OK, but what if I'm wrong? Is that comma necessary? Maybe it's really not funny? I'm actually not a funny person, now that I think about it. My dad always told me to leave the jokes to my sister. But my sister isn't here, so I have to be funny on my own. OMG, I only have 12 seconds to be funnier…WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? I CAN'T BE FUNNIER IN 5, 4, 3, 2….
I'm having the same anxiety issues!
yeah, nthing the font change thing. there's a reason long-form articles in newspapers, magazines, etc are in a serif font, its much easier for the eyes to read. if the awl fancies itself more of a long-form online rag, i think a shift to serif font is in your best interest.
As a number of people have said, the old font for article bodies was preferable, as it looked better and was easier to read. Also, I like the high contrast black/white thing in general, but the black box around ‘follow’ (in the right side bar) might be a little heavy for a peripheral link people are going to click on once at best.
Biggyshorty, you’re completely right for print, but the same rules don’t hold true on the screen. Because we’re dealing with pixels rather than ink, serifs take up a disproportionate amount of space in digital media. Serif faces on the screen actually have to be considerably bigger than sans faces to achieve the same level of legibility.
That said, the reason people are bitching about the switch to Calibri is that it has some issues with its onscreen stroke weights at small sizes. Letters like w, y, and g, not to mention all the italics, can look peculiarly deemphasized on some screens.
Sure, on Linux with no antialiasing, even primitive “open-source” antialiasing, sure.
I'm sorry, are you saying that antialiasing improves legibility at small text sizes?
Several avatars aren't displaying for me (Windows XP, IE8). Don't know if that's a function of theawl.com, Gravatar (if that still works with this site), or my work network.
FWIW, I can in fact see my own avatar (like looking in a mirror!).
Some examples of people whose avatars I can see: Doctor D, Cherri, Hockeymom, Captain Fantastic, Keisertroll, Balk, Choire.
Some examples of people whose avatars I can't see: KUO, Tuna Surprise, Jolie, Gef, Garge, Clarence Rosario.
I've had avatars appear and disappear without regard for rhyme nor reason on this site for quite some time, and that's both with using IE 8 on a crappy Dell at work (with various work-instituted filters and insanity) and Firefox 3.6.something on a Mac chez-moi.
We will look into this!
What's all this business around the user numbers? The number is gray and smaller and doesn't need to be smothered in (#,).
Have they always been that way?
YEP! (the number used to be even smaller than that)
i swear my 1530 did not previously have a comma or a giant #. but that's ok. i will adapt!
Some of my best friends designed Calibri and the other Microsoft C-fonts, some of which are outright failures.
Needs more serifs. Just put them anywhere.
Please.
whaaaaaaaaaaaatttttt
Fuck this font!
I've waited till end of day to express this sentiment – thought I might acclimate to it. I didn't. It stinks.
Does yours get bigger when you READ MORE?
I HATE AND FEAR CHANGE!
Not to worry, change loves you!
I clicked the "Popularity" link and Brian Van is still at the top. That can't be right.
(ha ha ha just kidding brian i love u dude)
"Edit" is definitely not working for me! It just adds a new comment at the bottom when I submit it! Except I use a browser/platform that maybe .0001% of users do! So.
Yay, you fixed the font! Looks MUCH BETTER now.
Nice.