If I give you a wafer-thin mint, your Web site will blow up.

What you need is to streamline the code that you've got, simplify your stylesheets, condense and purge scripts, and maybe look at ways to control the size of embedded images and videos, etc., somewhat. Either all that, or up the speed of the server...

I realize advertising pays the bills, so maybe tweak the ads' bytage last.

Now make posting not take fucking forever...

Also, at how many people here who don't have iPhones don't use Firefox with Adblock Plus, which not only lets you block specific images but features a continuously updated list of known advertising sites to block images from.

Er...wake up, sheeple?

Hot iPhone browsing tip: tap the carrier/time/battery bar (whatever it's called) to zoom up to the top of a page.

Posting on my iPhone, natch, which makes me capitalize iphone all lame. *tap* learn the damn lowercase version!

You are not "impatient." You are "obsessive."

It's not always a bad thing, but in the long term, you do need to be honest with yourself about it.

Mom?

No. Ziggity is just trying to help other people out. Relax. No one is trying to take away the special status you've claimed.

(And yeah, Google Reader is iPod salvation for most sites [at least the ones that provide full text in their feeds], but this is better.)

Keying HTML tags sure is a pain, tho.  めんどくさい!

i can't believe you didn't give me credit for this!

no more dinners at my house!

i love her.

terry

I still don't understand the dynamics of posting to Slog. If you post something, your browser (any platform) hangs, waiting for the post to complete. While it is hanging, if you check the same page on a separate machine you find that the new posting is already live, after a very brief delay. So why is the poster forced to sit and rot? Some canned delay loop? Scanning his machine for passwords, kiddie porn, and letters from Youth Pastors?

Really, there are a lot of files to be rebuilt when a comment is added. The indexes, individual post pages (regular and iphone version) various rss feeds and other invisibles, etc. So while the post's page might update very quickly, the form doesn't return until all the other rebuilds are completed as well. This is just how Movable Type works. We don't like it any more than you do, and we appreciate your patience as we work on improvements.