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State of the Blog + Mods and Admins shout out

Morning yall! I'm hoping this is the last of the major blog updates as now that Disqus is here it seems to have helped clean a lot of things up! I'm still working on adding in comment counts and tidying some things up (if you see random side fonts, image display etc change you are probably not crazy), but the big stuff seems to mostly have settled out so far.  A big thanks to everyone for feedback and encouragement and esp to Its Ginaaa for the logo creation!  I'm also going to work on putting together a how to use/best tips post on how to tweak accounts in the next few days so please feel free to share the stuff you've found is working best. I love and appreciate everyone switching technologies and learning new stuff to continue to be here so much. In other practical items, I do think one of the nicest things about having our own setup is that well, we have our own setup.  There are some things we are restricted on due to technology or options, but we do have a wealth ...

Hold on to your Butts

Disqus is coming! I'm not sure if this will impact live commenting for a second or not, but bear with us please!

Updates and Feedback

  Hey yall - Putting a post up here to keep everyone abreast of stuff we're working on, and so that we can grab any feedback as you guys are coming through here, since one of the beauties of this new site is that we get to design it and make choices together from the ground up (and hopefully blogspot is a kinder master than kinja). My plans for the day are the following: 1) Finalize a theme.  Those of you may noticed that I've got a basic theme up so far and tweaked it a bit (I've realized I'm so old now that I need large font on all my websites 😅), but I'm totally open to any feed back about look/feel.  Its fairly easy to change fonts, colors, and back ground images.  Still working on figuring out header logo, and a better way to have popular/recent articles scroll at the bottom. Please note that if your suggestion is not implemented it is not a reflection on the quality of your suggestion but rather on the quality of the admin's ability to do it haha. 2) Inst...