Worst Piece of Technical Junk

Late Morning, Glories!

Just been going through the earlier post with its amusing day-late DST-adjusting time-shuffle of comments.

How izzit that this blog, the best on the web (including all the community of canny commenters), is the worst piece of technical junk?*

I'm no genius, but couldn't the time-stamps all be Universal Time and then only the display times would be adjusted, all together, for DST or whatever? No re-sequencing of comments? I can't even imagine how it actually is done. Main pages and comments aren't even the same clock!

It's not just DST comment shuffles and the lameness of commenter tech (e.g. no live links) - much of which I can understand in the name of avoiding abuse.

With high traffic, posting pix and vids would make any page overloaded. (Not that kbdabear's compliance pix on the ONTs wouldn't brighten it up... ahem.)

And not long after I started visiting, people had found ways to post words outside the gray boxes & other silly stuff, and those were alleged friends of the blog. Imagine what the enemies could do!

Some of the "problem" comes from maintaining something most of us appreciate & respect, no sign-up required to comment, plus the ability to post anonymously and play with our socks. This means trolls switching IPs can be difficult to suppress, and if it's a choice between signed-up members allowed to post pix and playing with socks, I think the PTB have made the right choices.

But it's also little things most folks might not notice, like, if you jump to comments from an article (not the front page) or from the archives, you go to the old minx:1080 address (which IIRC was a fix for a server crash early last year) instead of the acecomments domain. Or, there's no links to previous/next article anywhere on the comments pages. And probably other things I'm not recalling at the moment.

Oh, yeah, the 500 errors on any Unicode. (bit.ly/pixyize)

*Just a rant, posed as academic questions, and with all due respecks to the obviously overworked Pixy and the Hamsters.

But, I mean, really!

/rant off, smiles back on