So here it is, folks: the new We Hunted the Mammoth, which is exactly the same as the old We Hunted the Mammoth, but with a cleaner and more up-to-date look.
Hopefully this move to a newer WordPress theme, and some behind-the-scenes tinkering, will help to prevent the glitches that have been knocking the site offline in recent days.
The new theme should preserve the same basic functionality of the old theme when it comes to things like commenting and navigating. (In case you’re wondering, the “Recent Posts” and “Recent Comments: widgets are now at the bottom of the page.)
I may do some additional customizing of the theme in days to come. Let me know what you think of this new look!
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Wtf does “opposite of male” even mean??
Kupo – I looked.
Male. Definition 1b : “having a gender identity that is the opposite of female”
I’m gonna assume that their definition of redundant is simply the word redundant.
It’s redundant, but I can’t really find a better way to phrase it that is trans-inclusive. And it’s at least a bit entertaining watching TERFs melt down over a change in a dictionary that has no material impact on them.
I’m still taking in the suggestions/complaints here. It’ll take me a little while to get everything changed/fixed.
On the comments, I’m actually using a plugin that’s supposed to put page numbers on the comments but it ain’t working. Nor do I know the source of the server not found bug with the comments. It may be that wordpress isn’t built to handle sites with so many comments (750,000 in all so far), but I don’t know. It could also be a plugin problem or something else.
I’m going to move the site to a new server shortly as well; that may fix some of the glitches (I hope).
Oh, and I will put up a resources page to make up for the loss of the thing in the sidebar.
Thank you.
I’ve steered a couple people to the resources over the years. Be nice to have them back again!
Is there a way of archiving the old threads and comments, and having this new site start from a sort of “year zero” basis?
I can see the attraction of being able to go back to old posts of course, but perhaps the original site could be transferred across to another URL?
Although I guess that would generate another expense of hosting a separate site. Unless there’s any free places you can put a dormant site?
But that way you could also just keep the old formatting. Unless of course that’s irretrievably overwritten now with the adoption of the new template.
I’m really impressed though with the new site. As someone who struggled at first even with Wix I understand your pain! And Wix is just drag and drop prewritten elements.
I wouldn’t like the idea of the site starting over from scratch and archiving old posts. If that’s the only way to get the site to work, then so be it, but as someone who just spent days looking through old posts just a couple of weeks ago, it would feel really weird to have that opportunity removed or made more difficult.
The site changes haven’t solved the “comments don’t show up right away” problem, in case that was one of the objectives.
ETA: in fact, this very comment got trapped until I reloaded the page without the page number and comment number.
I wouldn’t really have an issue with archiving the comments on old articles so long as there was still a way to read them, but I would somewhat miss the occasionally entertaining necro trolls.
Update: I’m now seeing page numbers for the main page of the site, which go through the posts in the history, but I’m not seeing them on the comments.
Ok, dark mode wanters, see that little moon button at the bottom right of the page. Click it and ta-da! Dark mode.
Dark mode should also get triggered if you’ve set your computer, etc, to dark mode.
I’m going to try a new plugin for the comments and will see if I can get it to do all the stuff you all want, including page numbers. This may mess up some of the functions of the comments until I figure out all of the plugin options.
It looks like we can now vote up or down on comments. I hope that doesn’t reorder them, as that would make threads a bit hard to follow. And it looks like the box to comment is now above. Page numbers are back, so that’s good.
Hey, now there’s pagination for the comments! It’s only at the bottom and I can’t figure out how to do it on the top as well. But hey it’s there.
I’ve removed the voting options on comments. It’s better without.
damnit where did the edit button go, let me go look
hey there it is
Just clicked on the Ron Jeremy thread … and all the coments are vertical.
(Thought – while being able to attach pictures is rather neat, it’s probably not a good idea, given the dolts and trolls as show up)
Seconding Threp on the wonkiness of the comments when I hold my phone in landscape mode.
Appreciate the dark mode toggle, though I will note that the top logo’s text all but disappears when dark mode is toggled.
And my quote helper has finally bitten the dust. Ah well, back to the drawing board.
(And this comment appears at the top of the thread? That can’t be right.)
(Ah, a refresh pushes it to the correct position.)
Been bouncing around the archive and some comment sections go vertical after a bit – but it seems random. There’s nothing obvious causing it. It’s not after a certain number, or on a certain page, or after a comment with a link in the nym.
(I’m on the laptop, so permanent landscape mode)
Weird – now my background is a warm buff instead of very pale grey, and the serifs are gone on the comments but not the main post.
Thanks for the pagination, even if it can only be at the bottom, and for the dark mode.
I think the vertical comments happen when someone was using the “reply to comment X” function on the very old theme. It didn’t exactly work right back then either so the next overhaul flat out disabled it.
Thank you for fixing this! It makes a big difference. Also, I like the tan and grey format as well as the easy dark-mode option.
Test comment
ETA: this comment appeared at the top of the page, which is … sub-ideal.
@PoM
It relocates to the bottom if you reload the page.
@Naglfar
I noticed that, but that’s still sub-ideal. LOL
Comment box on mobile (firefox + android) is now two lines wide… omg though it seems to get bigger as i type? Let’s test!!!
Omg it adjusts, i’ll be able to reread everything, how exciting!!! Since it (so far) doesn’t have a scrollbar, it’s no issue scrolling back up, to check the rest of the comments, or the post itself. That’s a treat!
Dark mode is also amazing, got to say.
Comment box is on top of the comments though, not at the bottom where it makes a bit more sense, for a discussion site like this one.
Oh, also, it would be nice to have the link to the comments policy back, that’s good to be easily available to point people to.
Page numbers are on the bottom, but not the top for me yet.
There are so many more buttons in the comments window, let’s try them!
Bold
Italic
Link
Underline
UL
OL
CODEOh, ther’s a usability problem, to use the buttons, i have to scroll allllll the way up. :/ i know i can’t have it both ways (a dynamic comment window that lets me read everything i’ve typed, as well as easily accessible buttons), so however this winds up is fine with me. 🙂
Hmm, after putting in all those tags, the window had shrunk (or didn’t adjust for some of the extra lines that were added as i used them) and i couldn’t see the bottom lines of my message. Without a scrollbar, i had to hit ‘enter’ to get it to go to a new line.
Perhaps a compromise, where the comment wondow will expand to cover a few paragraphs, and will have a scroll bar on the side after that?
Feature suggestion for the comment links: It’s nice that they automatically copy themselves to your clipboard when you click on them, I guess (RIP that password I was saving there), but could they actually function as links, so that I can use them to keep my position in a thread? Also, whatever that was supposed to show up when you click on the “Share” button, isn’t.
Uhhh, the comments window is still HUGE on my phone, from my last comment. It took me typing out a line for it to reset to the tiny box it was originally.
Also i wasn’t quite sure what the
UL
ans what the
OL
buttons do. I assume they change where the text is…
Ah, it was the tags. UL and OL add a new line after you use them. So my paragraoh looked like this:
Also i wasn’t quite sure what the
UL
ans what the
OL
buttons do. I assume they change where the text is…
Eta: right, these two comments went to the top of the page.
Also, those two paragraphs look the same, but they are not!
I still don’t know what those buttons do, though.
I see i can edit, but i don’t see a timer! How long do i have?
Edited again to add: not sure why the image posted twice, or why there’s a bunch of code around it. I pasted one URL that ends in a .jpg.