Glad the feedback is mostly positive so far!
Though DanF would like to take credit for the new look of the board, all he did was hire the guy who first developed Scoop to make the changes (both suggested by us, and suggested by our users) to the source code ;~) As an added bonus, these changes are flexible and can be implemented or not by any other Scoop board. Scoop is a free, open-source software package, and we are pleased to support the project with a little cash to spur new development and help others.
On our punch list now:
- The new comments box with each story on the main pages DOES take up too much space. We will reduce the text size and eliminate the extra line breaks. NOTE! You can turn this new box OFF if you wish by going to "display preferences" and UN-checking "recent comments".
Anonymous hero issues. It seems to us that the best way to deal with this is that -- if you post as "anonymous hero" your posting is sent to a voting or editing queue, where it's up to the users of the board whether your story or comment gets posted or not. What does everyone think?
Other minor format changes are in progress too.
As always, please let us know what you think!
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