As per the archive page, those have all been rolled into categories of a single WordPress instance now.

Am in total agreement about Preview and will test some possibilities over the weekend.

http://www.samizdata.net/category/photos-3-categories/

Check the category menu on the right.

If I’m only allowed two Jeers, then kindly enter loss of Preview as Major, MAJOR Jeer and bump the avatar complaint.

Thanks! :>)

.White on TWO blues, both with good but not excessive contrast, the duality providing a bit of rest for the eyes.

Grade: A+++

.Retention of overall simple look: Excellent. (Except I miss The Dissident Frogman’s delicious propeller-beanie. Anybody who trashes Ernesto is a friend of mine.)

Grade: A+++-

Addition of “Latest Comments” Feature: A+++-

.Loss of categories of Resting vs. Active Contributors: Rats.

Grade: C.

.Avatars: Ridiculous wherever you find them. Bummer.

Grade: F.

.Threading: Don’t like threading, but opinion subject to revision upon further experience with usage.

Provisional grade: D+

.Lack of Preview: DO SOMETHING! Preview is greatly helpful in proofreading. Anyone who ever proofread anything knows that while it’s hard to catch all errors ever, seeing galley-proofs helps greatly. PLEASE RESTORE!

Grade: F-

.Addition of monthly archives: Very good.

Grade: A

.Search: Holding off on grade. I complained (just once) about Search, but the system of presenting the whole list of titles only, and of restricting searches to “Original Postings only, Comments only, or both” was very good. once you got used to it.

Grade: Pending further exploration. –If the whole list of title results, however lengthy, could be restored, that would net you an A.

.Loss of SmiteKats–”photos3″ page removed: Totally unacceptable. If it’s not too much trouble–could you please restore? Consider it part of the documentary history of Samizdata, if that helps. Remember, the

more intelligent

among us had the page bookmarked….

Update: The Wayback Machine still has the page, thank the Great Frog. I shall copy, paste, and save at once. But it still won’t be the same, as even NeoOffice doesn’t handle the backgrounds correctly. Anyway, for any other SmiteKat Freaks, here goes:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110613021248/http://www.samizdata.net/blog/photos3.html

Grade: F——-…

.HTML tags: Assuming they work, and it looks as if they do,

Grade: A

.Next entry vs. previous entry the opposite of the old, and more commonly used, directions (Right Arrow now takes you to Previous Entry, counter-intuitive). Very strange.

Grade: C, but not life-threatening

.REALLY very strange: Browser “Back” button doesn’t seem to work right, at least with Firefox. It seems as though Ff may have gotten lost in the string of addresses. Haven’t tried Safari yet. Not ready to blame this on Samizdata.

Overall grade, subject to all the mistakes I always make and don’t catch–although I DO try, honest!: A+.

Special Cheers for retaining the overall look, AND for adding the “Latest Comments” feature.

Major jeers for possible loss of long, complete list of search results. (Ideally, a fix for this would include the original posting date for each title.) –And, for adding those stupid distracting avatars, which are also disproportionately large AND add an unnecessary step to copy-paste when saving postings. (Either copying around them, or deleting them from the copy–chiefly because they’re distracting and unnecessary.)

Overall Grade for the New Samizdata: A.

Special Grade for obvious hard (and on the whole successful) work to please all comers: A+++ and very much appreciated. And we all hope you are pleased too.

Good job, EXCELLENT job, Perry. Thank you. :>))))

Well I’ll get used to the new look soon enough I guess, not that radical a graphic make-over really, but the icing on the cake is… Good good Spambot, Goodbye! (sung to the tune of…)