This new site, which operates on a platform called soapblox, supports diaries, nested comments, and other features that you might be used to seeing at Daily Kos and other scoop sites. However, to use most of them, you need to establish a user account with the site.
Fortunately, the wizards who made the conversion happen (you’ll note that all our old content is available here) figured out a way to transfer names and email addresses left at the old site to this one.
So: if at the old site you commented under a particular name and you had left a REAL email address, you should be able to sign in easily here. What you do is: enter your “user name” in the sign-in box at the upper left of the screen, and click “forgot password.” The system will email you a password, and then you can sign in (you’ll probably want to change your password right away, which you do by going to your “page” and clicking on “profile”).
However, if you commented under a particular name that you’d like to keep and left a FAKE email address, it’s a bit more complicated – we have to do it manually. What I’d suggest is that you simply send me an email indicating who you are, and I will reset the system so that it associates your name with a real email (fear not – these emails will never be displayed on the site). Then you just proceed as above.
Of course, if you want to start fresh with a new user name, it’s easy – just follow the “make a new account” link.
Whew. Well, that’s the most complicated thing. The rest is easy. Once you’re signed in, you can post diaries, post comments, whatever. Look around the new site and tell us what you think. We are still doing lots of tinkering.
You might want to establish your own site meter and paste it in some blox somewhere. The site-meter that’s at the bottom collects for all the SoapBloxes.
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Hey, I love the site. I’m looking forward to stopping by now and again.
we’ve been using an invisible statcounter tracker for the typepad site and will just carry that one over to this one. Guess we’re stuck with the big ol’ sitemeter bug at the bottom of the page, though!
Are the Trackbacks gone for good, or are you folks working on that for the future?
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Just curious.
I have never really understood trackbacks. Something about a ping, or a ding, isn’t it? đŸ™‚
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Anyway, I will inquire as to whether such things exist ’round these parts.
and for no other reason than I’ve never really understood them. I’m more a visit counter junkie myself.
…because they tell everyone when someone has visited your site and commented on your post. So, I miss them.
… it’s a good way to drive traffic to your site and get a Google hit, on a strictly business level.
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Anyway, I’d love to have them, if there’s any plan for them.