Welcome to the new, improved We Hunted the Mammoth!
We’ve moved from WordPress.com and replaced the old WordPress theme with a streamlined custom theme. And we’ve been able to implement a number of long-requested features that will make navigation easier and commenting more pleasant. In related news, the Blockquote Monster has resigned to spend more time with his family.
Moving a blog with 2471 posts and 573,557 comments (yes, really) to a new server is a messy job. We were offline for longer than we expected while we tried to get all the old content up. And we’re still sorting through issues with plugins and widgets and so on. If you notice some weirdness going on please let me know in the comments below. Or send me an email.
And let me know what you think of the new features.
HUGE HUGE HUGE thanks to Tracy Bradley, who handled the redesign and the big messy move and dealt with all the technical glitches that came up. For free. Without her help the new site would look crappy and not work and my head would have exploded from frustration about a dozen times. Hire her for stuff!
Wow! Looks niiiiiice!
Just another test
Ugh. Yeah nested comments with just a one pixel border and some weird too/bottom padding is not enough to determine who’s replying to what once it’s more than one level deep (and I think WP defaults to eight! It’s under, um, settings -> reading? I think?)
One other thing — your Twitter feed in the sidebar is wider than your sidebar, so it overhangs the right edge of the box. It’s weird, and I suspect a max-width: 100% would fix it (well, except on Opera because fucking Opera and its inability to deal with min/max sensibly!)
ETA — I forgot a thing! Isn’t this technically WHTM formerly Manboobz 3.0? Or are we calling the original 0.1?
Testing to see if it’s only in the other thread that I keep getting put back in moderation. Because I just made a comment and it was the fourth one that went into moderation 🙁
Ok, last thing, hopefully. Blog time looks to be set to GMT, don’t know if that’s intentional or not though.
Samsung Galaxy S5. Let me know if you want a screenshot.
It looks great, and everything seems to be working for me.
Testing links –news about the study suggesting that human men and women appear to be people from the same species who can hold a conversation together:
The study was nice. The comments on all the related articles are depressing, but don’t really get going “their own way” until a woman writes an op-ed piece about it:
Mm. I think I got the links working. The edit button is wonderful for people who type like me.
Yay! WHTM is back! I had to pay full attention to my job for 2 whole days. It was awful.
I don’t know if this is a site issue or an I-can’t-use-technology issue, but on my Android, in Chrome, everything seems sort of shunted to the right. There’s a lovely white border on the left side, and no border to the right at all.
But so glad that you guys could get it up and running! I hope it will work better for you, having more control.
This edit feature + my clumsy fingers = best friends forever.
I’m not gonna lie: Every time I hear the words “sleek” and “clean” in reference to web design, I think of Clients from Hell.
Those two words haunt me now. They’re client-side buzzwords.
(Just postin’ to get out of auto-moderation, ignore me!)
David, quick note: I noticed when I blockquoted someone there were odd gray lines between the paragraphs.
It looks professional and clean. I like it. I’m loving the larger font size and the sans serif font. These old eyes ain’t what they used to be.
The mammoth graphic in the Donate section is really nice. I saw it on the ‘under maintenance’ page, too.
I like the new, improved widget for your tweets.
It’ll be interesting to see if the yellow highlight will prod more people to read the comments policy before sharing their expert psychiatric diagnoses.
I’m not seeing any threaded comments. My previous comment was a reply to David’s.
Great job, David and Tracy!
PI —
1) I fucking hate you for sending me down the rabbit hole of horrible clients
2) My worst was a law firm, who, in addition to “I do web design” meaning “you can work photoshop magic”, pulled this:
We need it professional, classic, suitable for a law firm, but no books or scrolls of columns or any of that.
Yeah… scales were also right out. So basically, lawyer-y, but absolutely none of the symbols that people recognize as lawyer-y.
Then there’s my ex’s site. I kinda wish I’d never said I could do it, but he needed it in a week and the guy he’d hired spent a month with his thumb up his ass. That went swimmingly, I had it sketched by the time he was off the phone with his friend who does advertising stuff, up and running in three days — easy peasy. I’m still maintaining it over a year later because UPDATE YOUR OWN PLUG INS! Or, you know, pay me for maintaining it maybe? Cuz that idiot sure as shit wouldn’t’ve!
…granted, a solid half of the maintence is me swatting at annoying buzzing sounds trying to hack in with variations on “Argenti Aertheri”, so me covering for the trolls I accidentally brought with me is fair enough (to said trolls: really, it’s not gonna happen, so stop trying, oh and by-the-by, I log your IP every time you try)
/ massive rant
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On Topic!
Your maintence page should’ve been “Off hunting mammoth, be back shortly”
Well done you!
Oooh fancy. I like the overall look, and, but I have never understood reply nesting that doesn’t offset the sub replies (at least 1 or 2 levels deep).
BUT! Bold! Italics! aaaand
buttons! Has David finally hunted the blockquote mammoth to extinction??
Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!! An edit button, too! *swoon* Finally I can truly hide my complete incompetence at wording!
Postin’ to get out of the moderatin’! Welcome back!
One at the top of the page (in the article) is good, but a couple on the right panel are broken (“On Herpes and Hypergamy”, “Check out my post on “Misogyny in the Men’s Rights Movement” on the Good Men Project”)
Thanks!
On the moderation thing, I think I had the spam software configured wrong, so it was sending all comments to moderation. I’ve fixed that, I think, which should mean that everyone who’s already commented here on the new site won’t be going to moderation any more.
If I haven’t actually solved the problem, sorry, your comments will keep going to moderation until we do get it fixed.
Just testing to see if I am worthy to post
And yes I am apparently yay!
You’re fucking welcome. 😀
It’s a bit like people-watching. Every time I think someone can’t get any more arrogant about their lack of knowledge in the field, CfH manages to top it. D:
There’s also Not Always Right if you want to delve into some other types of jobs who deal with terrible, terrible people.
Oooh, looks like the time has been put back to only an hour in my past like always!
I really like page links at the top and bottom of the comment list!
(Kinda got mixed feelings about the nested replies but eh, I’ll get used to it.)
Are the separate blockquote boxes for each paragraph the style of blockquotes now? Or a problem with the blockquote code?
The new site seems to forget my login details every time – I’ve had to reinput my name and email address with each post.
EDIT: And now it’s stopped doing that. Maybe it was just a one-off. Hmmm.
My only other gripe is that the text is very large. I read very small text, so tend to view websites on my phone by zooming out in order to fit the maximum amount of words on the page. I can’t do that on the new layout which means it feels disorienting. I’ll get used to it though.
Off-topic, I’ve been linked a hilariously funny misogynist forum thread which I was dying to share with the mammotheers. It’s on fetlife so you won’t be able to see it without an account (and the website is NSFW), but if you can get in it’s worth it: a group of assholes complaining about SJWs taking over Star Wars, and how Lucas putting women and blacks into it means he’s betrayed his principles and sold out.
https://fetlife.com/groups/20892/group_posts/8283851
The comments get funnier the further down they go. Did you know that the original Star Wars didn’t have women or people of colour? Did you know that there was ever a time when George Lucas hadn’t sold out? I certainly didn’t.
@EJ (The Other One)
ROFL! So Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams were….wookies?