Love the redesign. And yes, please to registered commenting (w/avatars).

In reality, it'll just be sealing the door to the echo-chamber that is slog. /shrug

Mind you, I sometimes turn off annoying scripts, like any audio/video ads (unless I click to start) and some annoying flash that "pops" up when I go within ten feet of it (NO! No! Get out of my way I'm trying to click on the Music Events you bad bad ad!) ... so maybe that's why it's not working in Firefox on WinXP Pro.

The Savage button reminds me of the "Ebert" button at the Chicago Sun-Times site.

I guess now no one will get in the way of Sven, Fnarf, and Poe from sucking each others cock on each slog post.

Great...

I like how everything else looks nice and shiny and new. Nice work. Carry on.

Not a fan of the moving "Community" box. In general, things that move on the screen are distracting when I'm trying to read something. I know it's moving so it calls attention to itself, but it's annoying.

For the same reason, I really, really hate some of the ads (this predates your makeover). I know you don't create the ads, but you can choose what you accept and don't accept. The ones that piss me off are the ones that have really spastic movement. There's a Toyota Matrix one that I noticed earlier today. I couldn't NOT notice it. When something is jumping around that much in such a jerky fashion, it makes it all but impossible for me to read placid text. In general, ads that call attention to themselves because they have a really hot guy on them are cool. Ads that call attention to themselves by giving me a headache are not cool, and just piss me off.

I know you need the ad revenue to keep the business running, but don't do it at the expense of alienating your readers/viewers.

does it actually preview...

basically the old version's preview was totally borked and never looked like what the actual post looked like.

i like the cleaner design. the ads are easy to get rid of in ff, so no beef there.

registered comments would be cool only if you could use them to interact with other sloggers through PMs or something.

It moved to "friends". The "friends" blogroll is ridiculously large. Someone should work on that.

this never happened to me on the old slog, although it is a common problem for me elsewhere. reason #34957 why i should be working instead of fucking around on the internets.

but then, censorship is a modern goal in most everything

and when will there be a directive to not use the word FUCK so FUCKING much?

leave well enough alone, it is not broken except to the control freaks, I enjoy the off the wall stuff with phony names more than the regs. who have become predictible

tell the people who need registered handles to go find some beans to count

The slog policy is "officially" against sock-puppetry but I'm never seen a post deleted because of it.

As for registered comments, I admit to being somewhat ambivalent. While I find the trolls and spoofers occasionally annoying, they don't bother me that much. And I do admit it will dilute the overall wackiness to a great degree. Personally, I can deal with the wackiness, so long as you continue to exercise the option to occasionally and judiciously delete patently offensive posts.

But then, I've never had a problem taking ownership for anything I've put on any web site, even if it's made me look like an idiot on occasion; that's what keeps me (more-or-less) honest.

And seriously, can you PUHLEEZE center the fucking text boxes on the page? This off-center crap is above all just so pointless, stupid, and pointless. Just because you CAN change something, doesn't means it's always a good idea to do so.

I also don't like all the white space to the left of the screen. Make it grey too.

other than that - I am growing fond of the speech bubbles.