I nearly forgot: thanks for all, Jessica, and good luck at your new job! I found your posts always interesting, and I guess now I'll have another site to bookmark.
As PennyArcadia said, there just doesn't seem to be much to read, even in the expanded view. And what do we have to write about - or, really, why even come to the site, if you aren't bringing teh funneh anymore?
I mean, it's not that big of a deal, but it just seems more pic/link, less commentary/wit than before the change.
@Penny_Esq: Yeah, that's what I thought to myself earlier. If anyone deserves days off sometimes it's the lovely editors at jezebel who keep me occupied and out of trouble.
I disapprove of Jezebel going on a diet in order to look lean 'n' mean in these hard scrabble times. Celebrate your larger, curvier, sexier bandwidth, yo!
@Khrushchev: Hold on, you never know who might turn up as part of the unwashed masses. I've been lurking awhile and I always wanted to register, but the audition combined with my crushing fear of rejection caused me to keep my snarkyness to myself. I just wanna come out of the closet and be a Jezzie too.
@Riesa Lirette: It's all right. The audition phase isn't bad at all. I made it through with, what I recall, was not a witty, urbane or insightful comment. I believe it was something along the lines of "what about her shoes?!!?!"
Anyway, my (rather drunken) point is that the ladies here are not as intimidating as they seem. I love each and every one of them.
@chilindrina: 1. I like that it shows more posts on the first page. But 2. I don't like that some of the posts have no pics or blurbs so I don't know what's in them.
And I'm pretty darned sure that #1 only works because of #2. Life is full of trade offs!
Eh, the new look is okay. I hated it for a second, but after I hit "Expand" I realized all was well. Besides, the internet keeps changing, and we keep adapting, because we humans are cool like that.
Hey what about the logging in from Facebook thing? Is Jezebel doing that? Can we all cry about it together, or not, because who even really cares at this point?
@Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.: Yeah, but they sort of were already, weren't they? I mean, I don't even really know what difference this would make much of the time. Besides maybe more "This story is funny! Check out my new album; it's called 'Summertime And Tha Living Is Eeezy!!!'"
@Khrushchev: That's terrifying. I'm insanely private about my Facebook. The mere possibility is freaking me out. Somebody is going to have to talk me down a la Rachel Maddow.
@BrutallyHonestBabes: For me it's not so much you bishes as potential employers who might Google my real name and find the insane crap I've said on here.
@funnyface: I know. I only just allowed myself to be revealed on the Jezebel New York group. Still sometimes I have to stop myself from deleting my self-outing, because I really don't want to ever be traced back to these absurd comments I leave.
@BrutallyHonestBabes: I think it's funny that your secret royal supervillain identity has a Facebook account.
@funnyface: Oh gawd, that's my fear too, and seriously reason #1 I don't want my co-worker on my FB. I don't even use my real name as my FB name and I have an e-mail address I use just for FB.
@funnyface: Well, the Facebook thing is completely optional, so don't fret. I think the bigger issue will the greasy Facebook masses getting their unwashed lack of irony all over our comments. I don't even know what I mean by that.
@Khrushchev: Ok, I'm breathing normally again. It was a combination of your sound reasoning and my puppy coming over to get some luvins. Plus I remembered when we were afraid of being inundated with teenyboppers after the Gossip Girl shoutout and we made it through that just fine.
@funnyface: My FB is sadly my legit page and so it is extremely clean cut. Half my gradschool is added as friends and it's my sole source of communication with other labs when I need their instruments.
I don't want to make myself yet another fb account :/
I'm not pissed about the gastric bypass. I will be pissed if my "funny mirror" through which I'm viewing the resculpted site (aka expanded view) ceases to be available though.
@Archetype: In your profile, there should be a new tab up at the top that says Messages. I think it was Scullymurphy who pointed this out to me elsewhere-- I wasn't with-it enough to figure this out on my own.
@funnyface: OH! Thank you, I kept checking, didn't see them on the main page, and was all Twisty McPissyPants about it. And my old ones are back, too. Yay!
@Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.: I cannot resist the urge to say that the fact that we can see them but they're still not working really BURNS MY DANCE BISCUITS.
@funnyface: I am total FAIL. I was looking RIGHT AT the PM's I had going, WHERE? I STILL CAN'T USE THEM! No, Crabby, you can't use them, but at least you can SEE them. This really chaps my dance biscuits.
I CAN say that the new format has grown on me. Not sure if Anna did some stick poking to change it up a bit because I've been too lazy to check out the other Gawker sites. But.....it's okay.
I worried that the gastric bypass would get botched and leave Jezebel pissing out of its asshole, but the surgery went well. I actually have no complaints. It seems I am in the minority.
@BrutallyHonestBabes: I ACTULLY DO NOT MIND THE NEW SYSTEM BECAUSE I CAN CHANGE IT BACK TO THE OLD WAY. HOWEVER IT KEEPS GOING BACK TO THE NEW ICKY CLUTTERED ICK ARBITRARILY. ALSO: pork lol
@Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.: I AM SO INUNDATED BY GAWKER MEDIA THAT I THOUGHT YOU WERE TRYING TO SAY THAT YOUR PRIVATE MESSAGES NEEDED IT. I'M GOING TO STAY OUTSIDE FOR, LIKE, AN HOUR THIS WEEKEND.
@Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.: I'D LIKE TO CHIME IN, SINCE WE'RE TALKING IN CAPS! I ALSO HAD A CRAPPY WEEK, BUT CAME BACK TO Y'ALL AND YOUR HILARITY. I LOVE YOU FUCKING DYKES! LEG HUGS, DANCE BISCUITS, UNICORNS AND YOUR WORLD VIEW!
@AbbyNormal: THANK YOU FOR KEEPING "YOUR WORLD VIEW" ALIVE. THAT PHRASE STILL BRINGS A SMILE TO MY FACE. ALTHOUGH I PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE SMILING IF MCCRANKYPANTS WON.
@Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.: HA. BY THE WAY I HAVE MISSED YOU AND YOUR CAPS LOCK PROWESS. I HAVE HAD SOME LONELY TIMES TRYING TO GET IT TO CATCH ON AT GAWKER. NOT REALLY, I HAVEN'T TRIED THAT.
@Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.: DUDE, I KNOW, I STOPPED BEING ABLE TO COMMENT DURING THE DAY AND THEN THE SITE'S LAYOUT EXPLODED AND EVERYONE WAS BANNED AND LEAVING AND HALF-FIRED AND FACEBOOK AND OH THE HUMANITY!
@Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.: DO I SPEND SO MUCH TIME ON JEZEBEL THAT OUR CYCLES HAVE ALIGNED?!?!!? CAUSE THIS WEBSITE HAS BEEN THE ONLY THING SAVING ME FROM RAMPAGE ALL WEEK!
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As PennyArcadia said, there just doesn't seem to be much to read, even in the expanded view. And what do we have to write about - or, really, why even come to the site, if you aren't bringing teh funneh anymore?
I mean, it's not that big of a deal, but it just seems more pic/link, less commentary/wit than before the change.
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1. Expanded view ftw.
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Anyway, my (rather drunken) point is that the ladies here are not as intimidating as they seem. I love each and every one of them.
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1. I like that it shows more posts on the first page. But
2. I don't like that some of the posts have no pics or blurbs so I don't know what's in them.
And I'm pretty darned sure that #1 only works because of #2. Life is full of trade offs!
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Keeping up with L.A. Jez meet-ups.
Trying to add as many obnoxiously different apps to torment my friends with.
A co-worker just asked if I was on Fb cause he wanted to add me. I was like, not unless you want to be inundated with Flair and Snowballs.
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@BrutallyHonestBabes: I think it's funny that your secret royal supervillain identity has a Facebook account.
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I don't want to make myself yet another fb account :/
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I'm happy PMs are back though, yay!
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THINGS JUST AIN'T THE SAME WITHOUT YOU AROUND HERE. :(
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SO MUCH LOVE!!