[HairOfTheDog]

Perhaps all of you that are speaking up now could have:

1 - bothered to check out the Beta in the last week or two and commented then.

2 - fought the complainers that hated to even see threads that they didn't think were worthy of FR and demanded their eyes be spared from seeing them, as they posted their rants on every unpolitical, humorous, religious or fun thread they saw.

[LenS]

Rule of thumb: People who are satisfied don't waste time on betas, no matter the product. So opinions on betas are usually skewed to the dissatisfied who want change.

[who knows what evil?]

Has ANYONE heard from either Jim or John today? Until then; I'm not getting too wound up. My sidebar is set; as are my preferences. I have noticed that the topics in my sidebar (including "BREAKING NEWS") move to the TOP of the sidebar whenever a NEW item is posted to that topic. I would, however, rather have more than just FIVE topics displayed at one time.

[Purdue Pete]

Regarding your point #2...that is precisely the reason we have the new format. The squeeky wheel gets the grease~~ and those who were so high and mighty that they couldn't be bothered to pass over the things they didn't want to read are the ones who SQUEEKED!

I can see their point if they had no way to discern the gist of the thread, but cryin' out loud, all they had to do was scroll past the thread! Now here we are trying to read small fonts, waiting eons for pages to load (I have cable modem and its still long), and generally all in a snit.

And, yes, I have sent $$$.