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September 24, 2025
Welcome At The New Home Of Moon of Alabama
You have reached the new server home for Moon of Alabama. MoA posts and comments published between September 6 and September 23 have not yet been uploaded here. (I depend on Typepad to do be able to do that.) There are also still some minor design issues. Please let me know of any problems with this web-site or the blog’s functionality.
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I notice slightly different MoA fonts under Kubuntu vs. Win10, both using Brave Browser Perhaps this simply reflects different default fonts under Linux vs. Windows. Specifically: On Linux the font is without serifs, on widows the font is with serif. Not a problem, just an observation. The ‘sans-serif’ font on linux is my favourite. Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 24 2025 15:32 utc | 101 Sorry for not being more explicit. I had all of the browsers still open with the text only pages showing. I simply refreshed them one by one and everyone came up showing the graphics. I inspected the code on each of them and all had the proper address for CSS. As for it remembering my data, that kind of works, the fields are not populated for name and email but as soon as I type a d my email address appears below the box and I can click on it and autofill the box. Well done! you can do the other tweaks at your leisure such as allowing preview and perhaps an edit function which would be fantastic. barfly tools still works too which is helpful to me to skip over those posters with a very low signal to noise ratios thanks again for all you have done. Posted by: dan of steele | Sep 24 2025 15:34 utc | 102 works fine for me on Safari, Firefox, and Brave. That was fast b! Posted by: Noirette | Sep 24 2025 15:36 utc | 103 That is the same comments look and behavior as before. They have always been indented. Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 13:31 utc | 57 I think I was biased by two factors: (1) a very long blockquote on the Ukraine thread, which combined with the next point and line breaks give average line width of about 2cm for blockquotes on my phone! For normal comment text the indent is 18% of screen width each side, which seems quite a lot; (2) the text size on my phone is significantly larger than the old site, which means far fewer words per line, plus even greater shortening of the line by word break which exaggerates the effect. (Your 28 word reply took 7 lines, average 4 words per line.) However for my elderly eyes the increased font size is definitely a big improvement for readability (before it was far too small on my phone), despite excessively long column inches. So if in the future you decide to reduce the indentation on devices with narrow screens*, I’ll be pleased about that. But I absolutely agree that it is not a priority at this time! * For example indentation as a percentage of screen width instead of absolute value, or better an absolute value subject to a maximum as percentage of screen width. Posted by: BM | Sep 24 2025 15:40 utc | 104 I am on an old Mac Mini with old Opera and the font has changed size a couple of times….got bigger….and then I refresh and then gone….don’t worry about it….when the dust settles I will make the font big enough for these old eyes Thanks for your efforts Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 24 2025 15:43 utc | 105 I noticed one functionality issue: 1. Go to the MoA main page Unless my memory plays me a trick, this used to cause a jump to that specific user comment. Now it just jumps to the article itself. It would be great if that feature could be restored. Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 24 2025 15:48 utc | 106 @Norwegian | Sep 24 2025 15:48 utc | 105 Update: It seems to work as before when the comment is on page 1 of the article, but not if the comment is on page 2 or higher. Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 24 2025 15:53 utc | 107 Huzzah! Very responsive servers with very low latency. Posted by: Skiffer | Sep 24 2025 15:57 utc | 108 Hmm – there should not be a new font-size … Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 15:19 utc | 94 For me the main text font is substantially larger (huge improvement for me) but only on the smartphone. On my laptop the font is small, the same as before. Posted by: BM | Sep 24 2025 15:59 utc | 109 I am sorry for not contributing to you as all I have I have sent to Gaza.I think they are done now. Posted by: stranger | Sep 24 2025 16:02 utc | 110 New feature! Comments “next page” now has an index … good! About fonts, one gets accustomed to them over time, but this does not mean all are equal. I prefer super-elegantly sleeked styles such as univers. The old MoA font was good, but not perfect I feel, for instance when displaying numerals. Testing a5g37a8 A1lLf1tH The new site on my firefox does come across a bit cleaner than before. I’m happy. Posted by: persiflo | Sep 24 2025 16:03 utc | 111 Norwegian @90 <– See for clearing local DNS cache in Linux Yes, that should work for Linux. I just figured Windows users would be less familiar with such nitpicky details of how their machine works and could benefit from a simple recipe. Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 16:03 utc | 112 Wow this is incredible! Exactly the same “feel” as before! Thank you so much for this b. There is nothing I miss. Posted by: Avtonom | Sep 24 2025 16:07 utc | 113 Re: fonts, for those using Firefox there is the option in Firefox>Settings to set fonts locally, over-riding site-produced fonts; not just on MoA but on all sites. Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2025 16:10 utc | 116 I clicked on my long-time bookmarked MOA and I’m getting the new site with same exact format but slightly larger font which is good for me. Everything looks and feels the same on my Win 10 with latest Chrome browser on my desktop. Thank you b. Posted by: bisfab | Sep 24 2025 16:24 utc | 117 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdNnw99-Ic For you all and b. Thank you. Posted by: stranger | Sep 24 2025 16:28 utc | 118 Uhhh my MOA bookmark shows http://www.moonofalabama.org. So am I in the new site if I don’t click on the comments link in your latest Welcome post? Cough cough…asking for a friend. Posted by: bisfab | Sep 24 2025 16:29 utc | 119 Jeremy Rhymings-Lang @115: “Re: fonts, for those using Firefox there is the option in Firefox>Settings to set fonts locally, over-riding site-produced fonts; not just on MoA but on all sites.” WARNING! Don’t do this! This will break the layout of most websites because tables, images, and other “assets” will not scale with the changed font size. You will end up with text flowing outside of the elements that are supposed to contain it and overlapping with other text. A better solution is if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, hold the control key down and scroll up and down to increase and decrease the whole-page scaling (zooming). The control key with the trackpad gesture for scrolling works similarly. This approach keeps the elements on the webpage proportional while you increase the text size. Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 16:31 utc | 120 Checking in @70 degrees north: Posted by: waynorinorway | Sep 24 2025 16:37 utc | 121 It Works. Fantastically, thank you for being you, b,Thank you from all my heart. Posted by: stranger | Sep 24 2025 16:48 utc | 122 I can finally follow the RSS feed again without getting blocked by Cloudflare! Hooray! Posted by: fnord | Sep 24 2025 16:49 utc | 123
control and +/- does the same. My firefox keeps me informed about the current zoom level so I don’t get paranoid. Posted by: persiflo | Sep 24 2025 16:49 utc | 124 Congrats! Wish you the best. Is it annual fund-raising time? Posted by: KitaySupporter | Sep 24 2025 16:50 utc | 125 An impressive build, b. Great flow & seamless posting. Thank you for doing a fantastic job. Loving the upgrade. Congrats-! Posted by: steel_porcupine | Sep 24 2025 16:53 utc | 126 There is another minor change with the update, apart from the absence of a Preview button. Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Sep 24 2025 16:56 utc | 127 b you smashed it …. well done in such a short time … great stuff … your voice cannot be missed in a world of FAKE. What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing. 😊 I can’t say for sure that the font is bigger as others have said, but the text definitely looks sharper and clearer on my 4k monitor. Posted by: Brendan | Sep 24 2025 17:39 utc | 129 May be my imagination, but the line spacing looks bigger too. Posted by: Brendan | Sep 24 2025 17:41 utc | 130 Congratulations to B and all who made it possible so quickly!!! Everything looks fine except that I miss the preview option. I guess it will come soon. Posted by: Naive | Sep 24 2025 17:55 utc | 131 Wow, great job, [nearly] seamless transition. I had assumed that I’d have trouble getting to the new site (for a few days at least), but the old link redirected just fine. Posted by: elkern | Sep 24 2025 17:59 utc | 133 @ b Posted by: NotPaulHollywood | Sep 24 2025 18:14 utc | 135 Fine work B (and others who helped) Earlier formatting issues and the .de for posting, but now looks perfect enough. Posted by: Newbie | Sep 24 2025 18:25 utc | 136 Posted in the wrong thread: There is a CSS rule in style.css file at line 293: line-height: 150% Maybe our host could comment that line out. Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 18:44 utc | 137 Works well for me. Heartfelt thanks for your efforts, b. Keep up the good work! 👏 Posted by: limpus | Sep 24 2025 19:03 utc | 138 WHEEE!! Look at you! It was a plain, white page with typing earlier. It’s completely back to normal now. Congratulations! Thank you and Bless you for all you do, b! Posted by: Vivacious Recluse | Sep 24 2025 19:03 utc | 139 Works perfectly for me now in all three browsers – Firefox, Chrome and Yandex. Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 24 2025 19:09 utc | 140 Based on my experience the font is Georgia on Windows (Macintosh too?) and Liberation Sans on Linux. Posted by: joey_n | Sep 24 2025 19:18 utc | 142 All fine and dandy, performance some notches above the previous site E-mail to be removed as mandatory IMHO Preview would be nice Search seems to work for recent posts, maybe there’s a re-indexing you can do somewhere GOOD JOB THANK YOU Posted by: Newbie | Sep 24 2025 19:19 utc | 143 Hey look, the page navigation system also has links to individual pages! Posted by: joey_n | Sep 24 2025 19:20 utc | 144 Yes, the go to post (instead of first page might be critical for 300+ comment posts) But once again, the important part is well done Posted by: Newbie | Sep 24 2025 19:20 utc | 145 Major sigh of relief here, thanks to all who made this migration happen. These things are not simple, and it seems like the routing (URL pattern) is the same! So that means bookmarks and emailed links from the old site will still work … respect. Looks like the name field requires at least some text, and the email field checks for text@text, and that is done via browser validation. Aha! There is also server-side validation that is more stringent, accepting only text@text.text as an email address. Still very much as open as before although email was not required in the typepad version. I will assume that other testers have checked the formatting and blockquotes, links etc. Others have posted that the javascript add-ons work as well. Amazing Posted by: jonku | Sep 24 2025 19:26 utc | 146 Interesting, I used a fake email address and it did not render with my name in the previous comment, assuming server-side validation that it is a functional address? This one has “volunteers@wikileaks.org” as the email, let’s see if it renders as a mailto link. Posted by: jonku | Sep 24 2025 19:30 utc | 147 no problems.Very smooth transition so far. I am happy that MOA has a new home and please keep up the good work of countering the lying MSM media, especialy their near-total blockage and censoring of the Gaza ongoing Genocide Posted by: Mp Peter | Sep 24 2025 19:33 utc | 148 Site loads as normal. Posted by: earthling1 | Sep 24 2025 19:40 utc | 149 nope — maybe the email is saved within the system but not rendered for other users, or maybe a bug. Posted by: jonku | Sep 24 2025 19:45 utc | 150 Very nice work, actually on android, typepad, actually in Greece, everything is working fine, thanks a lot for the work! As others mentioned : missing the preview in comment writing. Posted by: Tak-Tik | Sep 24 2025 19:46 utc | 151 An explanation of using HTML tags? (I normally used copy-paste as the easiest solution) Posted by: Stonebird | Sep 24 2025 7:53 utc | 6 Excellent work, B!! Posted by: Jane | Sep 24 2025 19:53 utc | 152 Everything works fine. Can’t tell difference btwn old MOA and new one. I prefer not using my email for making comments but will get by. I just will not save the email. I dont like using google system much but i am stuck with it. Posted by: mp peter | Sep 24 2025 19:56 utc | 153 An explanation of using HTML tags? (I normally used copy-paste as the easiest solution) Posted by: Stonebird | Sep 24 2025 7:53 utc | 6 Excellent work, B!! Posted by: Jane | Sep 24 2025 19:57 utc | 155 Cool. This pretty much looks like the old version. Kudos to B Posted by: TomD | Sep 24 2025 20:05 utc | 156 OK, what con go wrong… div class=”comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1 comments-body” id=”comment-1195322″ At the end of each comment, therer are 2 /div, when there should be only one. Firefox handles this OK, but it should be fixed. Posted by: TomD | Sep 24 2025 20:14 utc | 157 @152 mp Peter You can use a fake/spam email. Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 24 2025 20:34 utc | 159 I tried this early afternoon and got a page like being not totally constructed and a warning on my computer of an insecure site if I insisted going on… Now I am getting a similar page as the old blog, only I am noticing some slight changes, included that I am not registered with my usual nick…. Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Sep 24 2025 21:02 utc | 160 Congratulations B on getting the new site up and running so quickly and smoothly! Font is bigger and comments easier to read on my smartphone. Posted by: Refinnejenna | Sep 24 2025 21:11 utc | 161 Congrats B on pulling off the Great Blog Migration of 2025! You not only got the moving van packed and unloaded in record time, but somehow managed to put all the furniture back exactly where it was. The page index in the comments is a handy new feature. Same old look, shinier new brain. Hats off, sir. May your posts be fiery, your comment threads orderly, and your hosting bills forever smaller. Posted by: Juan Moment | Sep 24 2025 21:17 utc | 162 Hi, again, I am notcing that when you pick a comment is the feed of comments in the right side of the front page the system is not redirecting you to that comment directly, as happened in the old blog, but to the head of the thread where the commnet was made instead, then you have to look for the comment…. May be it needs any fixing? Anyway, thanks for the fast migration…. Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Sep 24 2025 21:26 utc | 163 Works great on Pale Moon. Twice as fast and no Clownflare. Good job! Posted by: 俺様 | Sep 24 2025 21:29 utc | 164 looking fine. “welcome note” was funny:”dangerous site”… Posted by: lmaa | Sep 24 2025 21:38 utc | 165 Ah, so the post about the energy usage of AI has not transferred yet? I was going to put Grok to the question on it, but I do not see it. I also do not like email required, we will see if a fake one works though. Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 24 2025 21:50 utc | 167 @Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 24 2025 21:50 utc | 166 A fake one works for sure….. Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Sep 24 2025 21:52 utc | 168 “You can use a fake/spam email. Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 24 2025 20:34 utc | 158” You can, and your comment will still appear, but your name won’t appear on the list on the right side of the main page. Unless it’s been fixed in the meantime, you won’t see me in that list. Everything else works (except as others have said: no preview, and no direct link from the main page to a comment past page 1), but I’m alarmed that email address is now a required field, even if it can be faked out as I did here. Posted by: Dalit | Sep 24 2025 22:33 utc | 170
I can’t tell if I first misread it, or read a misspelling, but after years of giggling to myself while intentionally misreading it, I decided to use it at times, as did others … forever the most cutest thing on MoA 1.0 Posted by: persiflo | Sep 24 2025 22:40 utc | 171 Well, that seems to be fixed, since I’m now shown in the list. I’m still nervous that email address is a required field. Everything else looks great. Praise b! Posted by: Dalit | Sep 24 2025 22:41 utc | 172 Félicitations et merci beaucoup, beaucoup pour votre travail. Posted by: Didier Fessou | Sep 24 2025 22:50 utc | 173 Congratulations b. I have done many migrations over the years; they can be very stressful. Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 24 2025 23:35 utc | 174 Thank you,b, and congratulations! I had one incident of the elongated site name and warning as I read comments, but after backtracking that did not appear again. I bow to everyone else’s expertise. I can read, and hopefully occasionally comment. Bravo! Posted by: juliania | Sep 24 2025 23:53 utc | 175 Thank you b! Looks good on Mac with Safari except font is smaller, hard for my old eyes. Please consider making font a couple of points larger when you have time. Posted by: Samu | Sep 24 2025 23:58 utc | 176 So, apart from preview, jump to post and search we’re good to go. I’m fine with that… Posted by: Newbie | Sep 24 2025 23:59 utc | 177 I am not sure but I think email addresses were required in the “old days” at MoA and I have always entered a valid email address….but then I have a web site link as well….dot com but nothing there for sale but me and I am priceless/free. Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 25 2025 0:31 utc | 179 I know you know about this, but just want to get my little request in: Oh, and mazeltov for getting this up and running so quickly! (At least from us barflies’ POV.) Posted by: George the Zeroth | Sep 25 2025 0:34 utc | 180 nothing there for sale but me and I am priceless/free. Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 25 2025 0:31 utc | 178 ###### Facts. Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 25 2025 0:38 utc | 181 I am bothered by the line spacing as well….it messes with my skimming. I like a bigger font but not the current line spacing…..sorry to be critical….more of a vote Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 25 2025 0:42 utc | 182 Oh, and no preview? Waaaaah, I want my preview back! (I know you’re working on it.) Thanks for all the hard work. Posted by: George the Zeroth | Sep 25 2025 0:54 utc | 183 Loooong time lurker, first comment. I was pleasantly surprised to see that one of the poster names I had blocked on the old site with the Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey “idiotfilter” script on the old site was still blocked! The icon at the top of the page is unresponsive so not sure of this was on purpose or just because you copied some of the CSS naming. With the new system will it be possible to implement an “ignore” function or will a workaround like the idiotfilter need to be devised once more? Thanks for all that you do. Posted by: Helen Weals | Sep 25 2025 1:05 utc | 184 Very smooth transition. Posted by: fyi | Sep 25 2025 1:21 utc | 185 Over on the Open Thread Denk is writing that special characters are not showing up but he is not providing detail Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 25 2025 1:33 utc | 186 While I like the concept to read the content before knowing its author, at probably more than 500 posts a day I feel some need to apply some (non-automated) filtering. Posted by: fyi | Sep 25 2025 1:35 utc | 187 equal sign = Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 25 2025 1:36 utc | 189 I just held my shift key down and went across the number key row….rejected comment…just returned me to top of page Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 25 2025 1:38 utc | 191 Hurra! Hurra! Hurra! Keep on fighting the good fight! Thank you for making this possible… … Now that there is a a fresh start. B. If you read this. May i ask you a question. What ever happend to “Tom Gard”. He was the reason i started reading MOA. I am aware of that he was very criticle of this blog, to say the least. I am not gonna open this can of worms. But beside he throwing constant hizzy fits about how other people are to stupid (i remember him attacking you Bernhard and Karlof), yet he was an incredible analyst. The beginning of Syria and Ukraine he usually had very interesting perspectives. Do you know what happen to him? Posted by: El Lissitzky | Sep 25 2025 1:47 utc | 192 Congrats. The site looks nigh identical. It loaded without mishap, instantly, from Australia. One minor (potential) problem with DNS for the [no wwww.] moonofalabama.de (A) record. It is 216.92.3.120 which is not the website. It should probably be a CNAME record to http://www.moonofalabama.org, which will lead via moonofalabama.org.www635.your-server.de to 168.119.26.115. The NS records for moonofalabama.de give NS1|NS2.pairnic.com. Perhaps speak with them (pairnic) about the standard solution for the redirect from ‘moonofalabama.org’ to the ‘www’ version. Posted by: YesXorNo | Sep 25 2025 1:48 utc | 193 Félicitations et merci beaucoup, beaucoup pour votre travail. Posted by: Didier Fessou | Sep 24 2025 22:50 utc | 172 This seems to be the most recent comment from this thread as listed in the righthand listings. I noticed since mine is the next recent one below it, but mine and others more recent did not appear there. Posted by: juliania | Sep 25 2025 3:19 utc | 195 Thanks b….all good so far and thank you for your Herculenum efforts to keep your site going…so much appreciated. Posted by: Honeyeater | Sep 25 2025 5:34 utc | 197 NEW SET UP U post fairly regularly, but am not prolific. Well done b and all who assisted in the migration. Posted by: Barrel Brown | Sep 25 2025 5:45 utc | 198 @El Lissitzky @all There is one bug and one feature missing: Both are noted and will be worked on. This will likely take a day or two. There is a font issues but I am very unsure of what the problem is. Line-height? Some people like the new look so I am not sure what to do about it. (If you find the font to be too small use Ctrl and + to resize the page.) Email is now a required field because that will help me to find comments with hijacked usernames. It will never be shown to other readers. I don’t care what the actual email is, i.e. it can be fake, but it should be consistent. If there are any other problems please let me know about them. |
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