As you said, we certainly care. What's more, "abject failure" isn't accurate by any measure I know of. The initial redesign launch was, admittedly, a disaster, but it was more because things literally were not working—that is, bugs with functionality—more than it was problems with design. Not that there haven't been… Read more
Yes, I've heard this before. But guess what: Every time we add new features we write about how they work, confusing or not. Whether or not you like the design, this is a silly and trite argument. You don't need to customize the navigation. But you can if you'd like to. We've always provided small ways to customize the… Read more
Basically what's happening isn't that it's going to "top stories" view—essentially "top stories" view just refers to the front page with the top 7 most recent posts. So while the sidebar appears on all permalink pages, that's not the top stories view you're looking at. That's just the way permalink pages look. That… Read more
I'm notoriously cheap about new gadgets (though I've also become a bit more of a spendthrift in recent years—gotta check myself sometimes!), mostly, I suppose, due to some deep-rooted midwestern-instilled beliefs about waste and money and so on. But you're right, ISP+phone isn't peanuts, either. Read more
There are some options out there, but I don't believe there are any that are quite ready for primetime (someone correct me if I'm wrong). E.g., [sparkleshare.org] Read more
Didn't reply to this yesterday b/c it seemed like a hard one to answer, but... I suppose it's not really. I generally don't spend a ton on gadgets—I'm the kind of person who, most of the time, uses hardware to death. E.g., I just got a MacBook Air end of last year, but I'd been using a 2006 MacBook Pro previous to… Read more
I haven't used a lot of them, but the reader favorite is Abby Finereader. Read more