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2:35 PM - February 27th, 2005
You got it backwards, Lloyd. I too worried that there would be an imbalance. But so far, my side has been the shorter side (he already has his first review too). I know he hasn’t been writing that much lately. It’s probably because he’s busy burning all of his CDs to DVDs (and watching a few, here and there). He also works weekends, handles sound design for the campus theatre, and has to do homework from time to time.
I never talked about Xero on SEASONS because none of my readers knew him (besides Bigi). Xero would’ve been a forgettable, faceless entity. Be honest, can you remember any of the other people I’ve mentioned on my weblog?
My rationale for Duality is that it was the optimal solution given the circumstances:
- Xero wanted to get into weblogging.
- I offered to host him.
- He is one of the few people I share many interests with.
- I needed something to get me excited about weblogging again.
- I’ve always wanted to tackle a team project outside of school.
- Xero has this dream of maintaining a game site with enough cred to get press passes to E3.
So the last one probably won’t ever happen, but Duality nicely handles the rest.
And to address the sluggishness, Atlas, sadly, is not the sprightly, young server it was when I signed up. From time to time, its CPU load gets up there, so it might take a couple tries to get Duality to load.
(reminder for myself: list of recent comments; add # of comments to previous entry links)
February 27th, 2005 at 3:35 pm
the site has never been slow for me?
so far out of all the times i’ve tried accessing it. it’s been blazing fast, in fact.
February 27th, 2005 at 3:35 pm
oh yeah, and both from davis and from bay area home too.
February 27th, 2005 at 5:37 pm
It’s much better today. Internet was slow for me last night when I was browsing, so that may have been part of it as well.
It’s nice that someone, at least, is getting used to WordPress… that means I don’t have to learn it. Heh.
February 28th, 2005 at 11:31 am
This probably comes with the dual weblog territory, but I’m finding it mildly disconcerting that half of the page vanishes when you go one level deep, say to a comment, or an archived article on either side of the virtual aisle.
Plus, then the list of archives no longer appears on the bottom of that one-level-below page, forcing me to go back to the main page to see the archival list. This behavior feels a bit clunky, though I suppose I could get used to it over time.
February 28th, 2005 at 12:52 pm
More feedback…
I love the ‘previous/next’ entry navline on top!
What I really don’t like about it, though, is that it doesn’t reference whose entry it is (Q’s or X’s). Navigating through, I found it confusing and had to look at the bottom of the post to see whose it was. I think it’s important that the entry authors be differentiated, even there at that navline. Might there be a way to indicate (say with a parenthetical “Q” or “X”) whose entry it is?
February 28th, 2005 at 12:54 pm
Not carping, just even more feedback: there’s no space after the end of a comment post, and the next numbered post (at least on Safari), and it looks awkward with the next post ’stuck’ to the previous one like that.