If you haven’t noticed, and if you’re reading this post you have, the blog has changed its look a bit. Most of the items in the right rail are still there, just in a slightly different order. We’ve added archives by month, as well as tags that will show what’s popping up most frequently on The Buzz.
Send any comments along to scurria@sas.upenn.edu.
In today’s football news, the Boston Globe does a fine profile of Harvard linebacker Peter Ajayi, which is almost enough for me to excuse them for snubbing Saturday’s Penn-Princeton game from their Friday preview rundown. The Brown Daily Herald briefly previews Yale’s tester against the Bears.
Today’s DP carries previews of the Princeton game and the weekend in the Ivy League along with our regular opp spot.
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November 2nd, 2007 at 9:11 am
Nice job to the buzz for continuing the dp tradition of making web content uglier and more difficult to navigate. The old site was far easier to use, find posts and post comments. You guys sure know to take a good thing and make it suck.
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:45 am
I’m not a huge fan but as long as you keep the entire post on the main page and don’t require people to click a link to see the post in its entirety I can deal with it. Also, the comment section looks like it’ll be less fun than the last one.
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:47 am
Ok, I take it back, the comment section looks awful. “Your comment is awaiting moderation”? What’s that about? Sick of being criticized? DP censoring the blogs great! I hadn’t noticed any spam or obscenities on the comments so I’m not sure this is necessary.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:15 pm
So… you went ahead and replaced the previous elegant simplicity with a cluttered, unnecessary redesign. So now I suppose I’ll have to click on each post to read the full text of it, go to a seperate page for comments, etc. Yeah, that sounds great.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:20 pm
No, I don’t anticipate us using cuts (where you have to click to see the rest of the post) very often. I do think we will use them for our in-game updates, though, since those posts tend to be quite long and take up a lot of room on the page.
As for the comments section, I agree that the old drop-down format of the comments was better, but to be honest with you, I have way too little computer knowledge to comment intelligently on why the new version is the way it is.
I’m also not sure exactly what the “comment awaiting moderation” message was all about. I will ask our Web Editor about that and post a response. One small correction — we do get spam sometimes. That was a big problem a few months ago but we seem to have gotten rid of most of it.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:42 pm
The “comment awaiting moderation” message was a misconfiguration. We apologize for the confusion.
-David Lei, Web Editor
November 2nd, 2007 at 5:22 pm
What, exactly, was wrong with the old version? Was it too easy to use?
November 2nd, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Not sure what the hubbub is about, what’s so bad about this version? Different colors, whoppe freakin doo