So I am so busy I didn't have time to monitor and change stuff on the blog. What happens is I get to look at it and somehow Blogger has changed how the blog works without telling me or notifiing me or anythng.
Now it seems that when a thread goes over 200 you can't load the page and get the comments over 200. The way is formerly worked was that you clicked on the post itself and it would let you get to the comments that are over 200. But that doesn/t work now and I don't know why.
I am gonna try to contact blogger to see how to fix it if I can but if anyone has an idea please let me know. It seems that they also put in a thread thingy where you can reply to a comment and add a comment stream or something but I don't know how this works. I want the old style comment section and I will try to get it back if I can.
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Breakfast is served!
Darn iPad, so many videos won't load on it, so what was for breakfast? Cheesy grits?
You can turn it off but it also turns off thread subscriptions, which sucks.
And makes no freaking sense.
I do like the threaded thing, mahself, but I know some folks dinna.
Trooper, I wonder how Althouse is keeping her Blogger account from going with the new format, not that I'm about to email her and ask.
I wish there was a way of going directly to the latest comment posted.
No biggie if it can't be changed. It still works pretty well.
And your posts and the commenter friends are way more important than the way blogger works, anyhow.
OK , question answered, never mind.
If you go to your settings section on your blog and the comments settings, there is a drop down box that you can change from "embedded" which is probably what you have now to "full page" or "pop up box" (I think that is the term).
That will change from embedded where the comments are threaded the way they are now in an outline type of format...to a page that will pop up separately to put them in strictly cronological context.
Not sure about the subscriber feed or comment update, but I think that Blake is correct.
The new blogger format (they suck) might allow you to access the comments over 200 if you open the topic as a separate window (so to speak) by clicking on the title of the topic and then at the bottom of the comments go to 'view newer'.
Even without changing the comment threading option, people can view beyond 200 comments.
Just click on the title of the post....it opens the post all by itself. Then go to the bottom and click on newer.
Ta dah!
I came to the same conclusion as DBQ and changed the comment command from "Embeded" to "Full Screen."
Then if you click on the title the old system of New, Newer comments at the end of the post lets you go forward to the comments over 200 even though it says there are only 200. That must mean on that page.
Let me know how that works for you guys.
I think we lost the "thread" commenting which I am not a fan of because I like a linear discussion. if I put a joke right under your comment I don't want ten replies to come in between.
I am funny that way.
It would be great if I can get to over 200 comments on a post but I think that is only going to happen if MamaM puts Allies pigtails in the inkwell. Just sayin'
You know that in the "Little Rascals" putting a pigtail in an inkwell was really code for the fact that Darla was having sex with Buckwheat.
DBQ,
The newer, newest thing at the bottom of the comments wasn't there yesterday. Now I'm able to go to the long post and read the comments over 200.
Ah yes, much better, I'm easily confused, that threaded format was making me crazy.
Give yourself some credit, Allie, your spelling your name correctly, so there's that.
Well yes, I did didn't I? I'll never let Barbie near the keyboard again, slut.
"... but I think that is only going to happen if MamaM puts Allies pigtails in the inkwell."
Hey, that kind of stuff worked for Althouse. Grafted a superficially fun and mild-mannered blog to a Texas cage match and turned herself into a Big Deal Blogger.
'Course, she will burn in Hell for it (or maybe come back as a cockroach, depending on your theology), so I don't recommend that sort of thing to anyone but a crass materialist, unconcerned with either their own soul or the souls of others.
I put my pigtails on top of my head now , in the German fashion.
Chick are you obsessed with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
tits.
Chick are you obsessed with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Periodically
If you want to think about souls and their relation to crap on the internet, there are those who believe the "Singularity" will happen around 2030 or so. That's where the internet comes alive (cue Frankenstein) with its own actual consciousness, and becomes the World Mind. I am not kidding. There are websites and an almost vast literature about this. It's something like "Twilight" or Justin Biber I do my best to avoid.
A Silicon Valley veteran named jaron Lanier wrote a semi-interesting book, You are Not a Gadget a few years ago, in which he deals with this, and other questions about how the internet is altering our minds and spirit (assuming you believe in either).
Avoiding the deep metaphysics lurking here, one thing that concerns Lanier is the meaning of, and what will happen to, all the digital insults people have built up on the internet over the years. Talk about a Karmic load. Of course all that abuse will hardly ever be read again, but it's out there, hidden like the talons of Satan, ready to drag the souls of the thoughtless and evil down in the end.
Either that, or most of us playing on the internet will come back as tapeworms or maggots. As I've said elsewhere, your theology may vary.
But still, for your consideration (cue Rod Serling), what to make of all those flame wars and general nasty behavior, now recorded and alive in some way? And what about the World Mind, if you think the internet might wake up some day with bolts in its neck?
But more to the point, leaving speculation to Rod Serling, are you, as a person, and not as a parasite on your iPad, better or worse for this?
Hay there! MamaM regards TY as deep shit, but maybe that's due to the horse who keeps spinning around looking for his missing head.
Cheesy grits are much preferred over gritty cheese.
Badinage goes bad, as we see.
Better to blow Bach's Badinerie.
My favorite word for all things technological is thingy.
For example: though I'm sure DBQ is giving accurate and helpful techno advice I can't make it past the third sentence of drop down box, embedded and threaded. It's all thingy to me.
What's it like being me in this 21st techno century? It's like standing on the platform in leaded boots watching the train pull away.
Windbag, I think cheesy grits sound delicious. I like grits, the few times I've had them. I like Polenta too, both are corn, carby, but no gluten.
TTB, my iPad has taken over my mind already, my soul comes next. When I can break away from it, deep guilt comes over me, thinking of those poor Chinese workers jumping to their deaths from overwork, making iPads. I will pay a huge Karmic debt because of this, I am certain of it.
I just hope I can come back as some cute bug kids won't squash to get the stuff that luminates in the dark and smear it on their fingers.
Better than a tapeworm, Allie! ;-)
TTB, that Bach piece is perfect music for a bug to happily flit from place to place on a warm summer day. I can imagine some busy little ladybugs biting the heads off aphids quicky moving from one leaf to the other on the rose bush.
Allie, being nearly Spring, that piece, in b minor, an agitated key according to theory, makes me think of summer evenings to come:
Bach's bugs at night sing fasta,
Though insomniacs find fault;
And the sleepless bellow basta!
From Bass to b in alt.
Chick are you obsessed with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Periodically
Spot on chickenlittle!
Roses love ladybugs!! They also appreciate well rotted manure!
Grapes that are squeezed for whine, not so much:
The presence of Coccinellids in grape harvests can cause ladybird taint in wines produced from the grapes.
Yin and Yang
Snuggled up
Together
Make one (w)hole
TTB, nice! Now when I'm up at night with insomnia, I will yell Basta!
I'm thinking spring fever is a malady common to many with this warm weather, can't wait for those warm starry summer nights, twinkling lights across the lake, loons cry, dying embers in the fire pit. Checking to see if the boats are moored. Picking up the last of the grandkids water toys and securing them in case it storms during the night, oh yes, spring fever indeed!
'Twould be so pleasant to stay and rhapsodize on roses, bugs and sweet summer dreams; but staying in the moment requires leaving this electronic paradise for garage and attic cleaning in preparation for a run to the dump on Sat.
I've no clue how to check available Twitter names, but the reminder of heaped coals and dying embers causes me to wonder if HunkahunkaBurningLove might have been easy to remember and a bit catchier.
HunkahunkaBurningLove
Longer twitter names count against you in the long run. When others RT you, it eats into their available 140 characters I believe.
@MamaM I'm sure you can come up with something brief and original.
Better than a tapeworm...
I used to have two business partners. We all went to the same church. One Sunday morning, I cornered one of them during coffee and doughnuts and said, "Skip, you're my friend right?"
"Yeah."
"Do me a favor, okay?"
"What do you want?"
"Come into the bathroom with me and check me for tapeworm."
"Dude, you don't ask a friend to do that."
...something brief and original.
Unfortunately, due to a recent attempt at debriefing, I am fresh out of brief, butt good in the long run!
Your confidence encourages: LeeLee'sHub would capture the essence.
I first thought a hub was a nut, but this is even better:
1. The central part of a wheel, rotating on or with the axle, and from which the spokes radiate.
2.A place or thing that forms the effective center of an activity, region, or network.
I never had grits but when I was little my parents watched the tele show Alice and Flo always said "Kiss My Grits", so of course I ran around the house with a waitress apron on and would yell, "kiss my grits" to the entire family.
I was like 4.
Definitely a foreshadowing of things to cum.
Tits.
@MamaM I'm sure you can come up with something brief and original.
Thanks chickenlittle, for the tip on length. After figuring out how to sign up and receive TY tweets, I get it now. Since it's astoundingly easy for me to get hooked on the sound of bubbles bursting in bubble games, I'm apprehensive about the addictive potential mentioned on the other thread. There's been lots of actual bird song going on in my neck of the woods this week, and nice as it is to hear, it's mostly about positioning as cardinal and robin set up territory and verify themselves as vital and present.
I didn't see TY hollering about "iceberg" until just now.
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