Very nice Jerome. It looks great!

New setup looks very nice.  Except one thing: I was horrified to see the "MSM" tag in the E-Wire!

This is a high school-level framing error: see some recent posts by Markos.  MSM standing for MainStream Media sets the frame that blogs are not mainstream.  So here MyDD is shooting itself in the foot!

Markos wisely advocates the use of a term such as "traditional media" instead.  Please let's not shoot ourselves in the foot by reinforcing the bogus "MSM" tag.

I didn't realize you were going to stop using the old www.mydd.com/rss/index.rdf feed. I came by because I was getting an error. Also, You might want to change your auto-discovery tags so the feedburner feed comes up.

Wow.  I really like this. It looks great!

I hope the BREAKING BLUE feature gets used the right way!  I fear it could turn into a permanent Open Thread.  

Looking good.. should we use this post as a place for comments and suggestions?

I noticed the State Analysis blogroll is no longer in alpha order.
The photos on the About page seem to be broken too.

Would be interested to see what sites feed into the E-Wire, and how we can suggest sites that might not be there already. Maybe add some info to the FAQ about Breaking Blue and E-Wire?

I preferred the old design, this one looks too busy on the front page, and the posts are less invitingly readable.  It's a decent design, but the one we had until now was better.

When dKos redesigned last year, I pretty much stopped reading it altogether, except when people give me specific links, because its new design is horrible.  This is not like that.  I'll keep reading, I'm just unhappy.

Great work Jerome.

MyDD looks great.  But more than looks, the diaries that you and the other Bloggers produce are impressive and always a great read.  

One more reason that today is a big day...  Dont we get prelims on Chris's poll?  

Boy!

Rosa Parks sure looks an awful lot like the Dalai Lama!

I still think you could do two services to readers in your FAQ,

1.  Link to Chris' post about "I'm Not Going To Blogroll You"
http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/9/22/1645 28/907  
I thought this was a very detailed and useful commentary about site admin.  You might even save yourselves a few requests.

2.  Link to or provide a very simple list of instructions for people to make things bold or provide links that work.

This will make Gary happier and generate less angst the next time he calls us out for being html impaired.

Well, it looks great. But there will be that never-failing learning curve effect. Spellcheck no less !!!

MyDD does not work with Mozilla Firefox...

Please fix...

You my want to chuck M$ web servers if your using them...

The current MyDD  does not support universal web standards

Anyone else having trouble viewing the new version in Firefox?  On the homepage, the left bar appears immediately, but the center section doesn't appear until you scroll past the end of the left, and the right section doesn't appear until you scroll past the end of the center.

Anyone else having a problem like this?

Looks great in IE

Does the site still use Scoop? It looks like it, but what's up with the "Netroots powered" button on the bottom of the right sidebar? A new iteration of Scoop?

Also, the site is loading fine in Firefox 1.5 for me.

I love the E-Wire and Breaking Blue features.  The Dali Lama is interesting....didn't know he was a Democrat or an American for that matter.  

Good setup.  

I hope you're going to start blogging about Warner and explain why he's not just another DLC wanker. We don't seem to have anyone up to the task. The only Dem worth a bucket of warm spit is Feingold and I fully expect him to get gored by the RWNM, the M$M and the DLC.

Unless Feingold gets the nomination those damned Democrats are going to make me vote for Nader again. Please tell me Feingold is not the only respectable presidential candidate the Democratic Party is capable of fielding for 2008.

i know i haven't been around for a few days (i'm oncall this week), but WTF is CTG?

Ugh....I completely dislike the new design. The old one seemed better than this. It's not the change, I can tell I'm still not going to like this in two months. The graphics don't look good at all.

Nice change! I've been a lurker here for over a year and a half....finally signed up, and have to say it is a major improvement, the old site looked stale and outdated! Congrats!

I love the new look, and Breaking Blue sounds very promising.

Just FYI, I've been using Firefox for a long time, and today I also installed Opera, since someone over on dKos said that it's so much faster at loading diaries with a lot of comments (which is true). So I happened to open up the new MyDD in Opera, and it's a little funky compared with how it looks in Firefox, but not terrible--definitely readable. I guess there aren't that many Opera users, but I thought you might want to check it out in that browser too.

The site looks pretty good but I thought I'd point out the things I've noticed about it. One little thing that was quickly apparent is that I can no longer (easily) get the uid of commenters by hovering over their names in the comments. This is still active on dKos but has been disabled here apparently. I will miss that feature as it is the quickest way I know to at least see if someone has passed the test of longevity at MyDD.

Was this a technical decision or is this being done to make things better?

BTW, love the new tab for feedback. That's handy.  

One annoying change is that the ad column now won't play nice and stay off screen when I resize to just look at the text. Sure you've gotta pay the bills and advertisers demand to be looked at but .... I hate it when I am prevented from moving the ads out of my field of vision. Tapped has been that way for a long time and I've hated it there as well so I'm not singling you guys out. Just a "feature" that seems to be catching on which is obviously more for the people who pay the bills than the people who read the site.

I'm seeing some indenting oddities in comments but I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature. Also in the comments I notice that the first paragraph has a smallish font and then the font changes in subsequent paragraphs. That same behavior is there in blockquoted material as well. Looks kinda weird in the blockquotes that the first paragraph is smaller than the rest.

All in all looks pretty good.

FWIW, I note that Atrios, DKos and Firedoglake are all down, and have been down for almost half an hour.

I just posted a comment and encountered a bug. I'm using Firefox 1.06 on NT.

I grabbed a clipboard full of John Kerry off of Kos and when I previewed it in a blockquote using auto-format the resulting HTML was broken because at every line break in the pasted text a set of < p > tags had been inserted. Well that worked ok for the interior lines but the beginning and ending < div > tags got broken when the < div > tags became interlaced with the < p > tags. Just to make sure, I tested the copied text and it did not have the < p > tags in the clipboard text. They were inserted by the previewer.

Make sense?

Here's what the first line of the broken code ended up looking like:

< p > <d i v class="blockquote">Filibuster! < / p > .

So you end up with a tag sequence of p then div then /p which is obviously invalid.

To replicate just use auto-format, grab a multi-paragraph post from somewhere and paste it in between the opening and closing div tags. I don't think it matters but I did use class="blockquote" in the opening div tag.

To fix I tried inserting a couple extra p's but ended up just using HTML formatting and inserting my own line br's.

Here's a link to the comment I ended up posting and to the diary on dKos that I grabbed the text from.

[...]welcome Dalai[...]

With Safari 2.0 the first paragraph in multi-paragraph posts often has a noticably smaller font than the rest of the post.

I like Direct Democracy, but wasnt it Due Dilligence?

What are the little plus signs next to all the titles?  I've tried clicking a few and can't figure out what they do.  Maybe I'm missing something obvious.  Any help is appreciated.

Thanks. That's all, just thanks.

Yea, I friggen hate the way that these < p > tags are infiltrating the rendering of html. Rusty says its the way of the future, but "I'll overrule.

A few things..

The new site looks a lot better than the old site, and Direct Democracy is a much better name than Due Diligence.

The text in the right column is not aligned correctly with the column in Opera.  It's still readable but just looks a little "off".

I don't know what other pictures you have, but I know that if I was designing a Democratic site I would populate it with photos of American workers.  You know - auto workers, steelworkers, firefighters, teachers, nurses, electricians, coal miners, farmers, and construction workers, instead of the Dalai Lama (or as Utah Phillips succinctly puts it, the Tibetan Ruling Class in Exile :)  The Republican noise machine has been trying to portray us as the party of third worlders, non-Judeo-Christian religions, and hoity-toity urbanite hipsters, and themselves as the party of American workers, for many years now.  Why lend credence to their stereotype by playing into their hands?  Just a thought.

I like Direct Democracy, but wasnt it Due Dilligence?

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