I've had a lot of spare time lately so I've been doing a lot of reading, writing and work on the new site.
Here are some comments on the new site:
1) I ported all of the userids and passwords from the current site, so anyone that bothered to create an ID key will have a login. The new site allows me to assign registered users into groups, and based on groups I can give access to various bits of functionality and - more importantly - access to unfiltered posts.
2) Yes, the new site will filter profanity from my posts by default. I write a lot of about world events here so I'm trying to be a good web citizen and not put stuff up that might be too rough on a young tyke that trips over my site via Google. I have even gone another step and generated a
PICS label to warn potential visitors.
3) As you know, there are few things that annoy me more than being forced to register in order to comment to a site. Unless...
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