I've always enjoyed your in depth posts and true candor.
More importantly, I'm glad you brought up the LiveModern thing. It's gotten way out of hand is painfully obvious after the last 'upgrade' that the site is a bust. It's too bad, maybe it will fall into more capable hands someday.

...but a question first. I emailed you asking if we had fixed everything on your blog and you did not reply. I don't see what's toast. Having feedback from you is the only way to fix it. We're pretty responsive to these reports, all the while fixing the big problems.

Marshall

Marshall, I did contact you and you did reply that things were being fixed, and, indeed some things were fixed. However, I don't recall receiving an e-mail in which you inquired about whether everything was fixed. Perhaps it got filtered out by my ISP or I may have accidentally deleted it... I don't know. Anyway, I did notice that the photos are now back in my older blog entries (which they weren't as of yesterday). Thanks for that.

I know that you worked hard to upgrade the site and you had the best of intentions. And I know you are still addressing the bugs and quirks. But I have to admit that the old site, despite its timeouts and language character issues, etc., seemed to be so much more user-friendly and intuitive. I did notice that the number of postings in the forums and blogs has gone way down after the upgrade, and I suspect the performance/user interface issues were to blame.

Again, I have every reason to believe that this site will come back better than ever some day. But I am the impatient one around here... and for the time being blogger provides, at least in my opinion, an idiot-proof, fast and easy alternative that allows me to post information in a fraction of the time that it took here. This is purely an observation and should not be taken as a knock against your hard work and efforts here.

Do you suppose it would be helpful to start a new forum to solicit comments/suggestions about the upgraded site?

Ed... Sorry to see you leave! Will miss that ironic humor.

I am helping Marshall with upgrading the software. Can you explain where the site is less user-friendly and intuitive?

Performance problems I understand, and we are addressing this aggressively.

I'm glad that you did notice there were *some* improvements. Frankly, you are the first to say so. Thanks!

It will help us a lot to receive specific feedback on the UI and how it might be improved. And there is a place already for it: the website forum (bottom of the list, http://livemodern.com/forums/website . Besides the comments that visitors/members send me using the contact link, this is the best way to provide feedback on the site.

Marshall