Not that it would be possible to go back at this point, but I miss the old design more and more every day. This was once one of my favorite places to read and now it’s just a clone of DenOfGeek.

An example of the broken redirected link for the one I was looking for:
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/09/the-suck-fairy => redirects to
https://reactormag.com/blogs/2010/09/the-suck-fairy => leads to
ReactorMag 404 page

Some of her essays on Tor have ideas which have become fundamentally useful to discussion and review of the field of SF&F and literature in general. I think it’s not an exaggeration to say that her essay on the ‘Suck Fairy’ has made it a very useful shorthand in discussing how books have aged. (Yes I know she didn’t originate the term, but she popularized it.)

And, while I know the ‘What Makes This Book So Great’ reviews/essays are now collected in a book, those essays introduced me to a number of authors and fascinating books which have become part of my mental landscape. (There’s no way I would have started Sarah Monette’s Melusine series, for example, due to the entirely misleading original covers.) I would never have run into them if I had to first buy the book of Jo Walton’s essays sight-unseen

Also, the notification flags on comments and the “My Comments” option in the user profile have disappeared again.

And the system for displaying comments works terribly and needs to be completely overhauled. In the All Discussions page, when you click on the direct link to a comment, if the comment thread is more than a couple of dozen comments (maybe less), it takes you to that comment only for a split second, then jumps to the top of the list, so you have to scroll down and search for it manually. You can try setting the list to display the newest comments first, but there’s no way to set that as the default, and it doesn’t help you find a new nested reply to an older comment. Sometimes I try searching for a keyword like “minutes” to find the newest comments, but since the site doesn’t load all the comments unless you scroll down, that doesn’t always work either. It makes it frustratingly harder to follow a discussion thread.

I see you have a Threads, but there are a lot of instances that have Threads blocked on principal. I’m not going to get a mastodon.social account just to follow y’all from threads.

1. It would be great to have the option of receiving only one email notification a day when new comments are posted rather than separate notifications for each individual comment (and perhaps with a link that would take me right to the first unread comment). Just today I received 25 individual notifications about new comments, most of which involved a currently very active post (namely krad’s post about this week’s Babylon 5 rewatch).

2. It would also be great to have the “SUBSCRIBE” link appear after the most recent comment, i.e., at the end of the comments. I may sometimes decide to subscribe only after reading through all the existing comments, and right now this requires scrolling back to the top of the comments to get to the “SUBSCRIBE” link. I know, it’s a small inconvenience, but still.

At any rate, with respect to both of my suggestions, that was more or less how things worked with the old site, IIRC.

This should be fixed/back to normal–thanks for the heads up!

It should be back/visible now–thanks for letting us know!

I just tried copying to a second window onto a page and was still blocked; carving the comment into pieces worked in the original window, except that I also had to take out a link before the last piece would post. I’ll try stowing the comment somewhere, refreshing the original window, and pasting in it, but I’m beginning to wonder whether there’s something wonky about my account.

I think I already mentioned it somewhere in this comment thread, but I’ve found that if I spend too much time writing a post, it won’t go through and I have to copy it, reload the page, and paste it in the fresh window. So maybe the problem isn’t the length of your comments, but the length of time it takes you to write them.

I haven’t kept track, so I’m not sure whether the system doesn’t like me (having the death sentence on it in twelve systems) or I’ve just been trying to comment on the wrong threads — but I see long comments do work in some places (e.g. here), so it’s not 100% consistent.

That sometimes happened on the old site with really long messages, though I don’t know if that’s relevant.

Hi! So, if we’re talking about the newsletter, it’s normally sent once a week on Thursdays (around 12 PM, Eastern time). Let us know if it’s not coming through!

Also, it’s a little annoying that the headlines displayed in the aforementioned lists don’t show italics but instead show the italic code markers around the text.

Very much appreciated! (Given the bumpy road the site relaunch has taken, it’s sometimes been hard to tell which changes have been accidental and which are/were on purpose.) 😏

So, My Comments should be back in operation as of a couple of minutes ago–thanks for bringing it to our attention!

Oh, yes, that’s right. It was My Conversations that vanished in the upgrade, and that I dearly wish they’d bring back.

I should note that “My Comments” was different from the old “My Conversations” page, as that updated whenever anyone commented on a post you’d commented on, whereas the “My Comments” page was exactly that.

It was there for me post-relaunch for quite some time, but has now vanished – it may have been as much as a week ago, but no longer than that, and was updating with my comments on various posts as it went.