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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.
Comments
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. Posted by: b | Sep 25 2025 6:01 utc | 200 Hi B, thanks for your work, its great, I appreciate it very much. If I may suggest a possible cause for the font-linespacing-indent issue? It was the first thing I noticed, there is more space to the left and right of the text on a mobile phone display. Due to perception reasons this may be the cause for the font appearing larger and the line spacing greater. Maybe you should try first to reduce the size of the indent a bit and look what happens to the appearance of font and line spacing. Keep up the good work! Posted by: umuntu | Sep 25 2025 7:00 utc | 202 Well done b. I usaly use a book mark to find you each day. Today i just did a search on yandex, The result at top of the search results led me to your old site, with a panel saying no new posts. I only mention in case you werent aware. Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 25 2025 7:13 utc | 203 I concur with the line spacing, it does appear to be a bit more than before. I also think that it is too much and does not increase readability but rather causes more scrolling my $.02 Posted by: dan of steele | Sep 25 2025 7:14 utc | 204 Works fine for me. Like the new font. The line spacing does not bother me. Perhaps a compromise at 1.25 Posted by: watcher | Sep 25 2025 7:22 utc | 205 @b Thanks for the confirmation of the commentator link bug and the missing preview. All good then, take your time. Like everybody else I am amazed that the transition from MoA 1.0 (Typepad) to MoA 2.0 has gone so smooth and without any hiccups really. I am pleased to see the familiar layout and the overall policy being maintained. Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 25 2025 7:31 utc | 206 > still some minor design issues. Would be nice to have a live list pf them. To avoid them being overreported Like, i instantly see the header is lacking links to next and prior articles. Then perhwpsit is a known issue. And perhaps tomorrow it would be reported yet again… Posted by: Arioch | Sep 25 2025 7:57 utc | 207 Posted by: b | Sep 25 2025 6:01 utc | 200 I think most people older than 50 will appreciate the line spacing (and the font). Easier to read with slightly diminished eye sight. Posted by: Avtonom | Sep 25 2025 8:44 utc | 208 (apologies if that has been mentioned before…) Whenever you have time, could you re-implement a general RSS/Atom feed to track when new post appear? At the moment you only have article specific feeds. The general feed should appear at http://www.moonofalabama.org/feed/atom/ I think. At the moment that appears empty. Thank you. Posted by: phiw13 | Sep 25 2025 8:51 utc | 209 Another very minor tweak to consider: Line up the “Allowed HTML Tags” (one line per tag) in the open space to the right of the Name/Email/Website input fields. This makes it easier to copy paste when editing. Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 25 2025 9:38 utc | 211 No idea what you had to go through but looks splendid. Posted by: Lidna | Sep 25 2025 10:06 utc | 212 – When I open the commentsection then it opens on page 1. Then I can select to the last page of the comments. E.g. if there are 4 pages with comments then I can go directly select the last page (in this case page 4). Love it. Posted by: WMG | Sep 25 2025 10:33 utc | 213 Yay b!!! You are awesome. Life would be so much more confusing without your analysis and the barflies commentary. MoA is the only place where we can suss out the potential “why’s” as world info shrinks into fewer and fewer sources. Posted by: cc | Sep 25 2025 12:00 utc | 214 Congratulations for getting this done so fast and so smoothly! Posted by: Shahmaran | Sep 25 2025 13:05 utc | 215 psychohistorian | Sep 25 2025 0:42 utc | 182 I find it a lot easier on the eyes with present line spacing. Viewing this in Firefox, Windows 11 computer using AMD 7-77 processor … had this machine for a year now and this new website is just about the first time with it that there have been absoluitely no problems with on-screeen font rendition in any browser. Hope that continues. Posted by: Cynic | Sep 25 2025 13:35 utc | 216 Oops! MoA new website cannot cure my tendency for typos, though! Posted by: Cynic | Sep 25 2025 13:38 utc | 217 No sooner posted the above when the “Leave a Comment” header line suffered a temporarily mis-aligned “e”. Posted by: Cynic | Sep 25 2025 13:53 utc | 218 @b, The “continue reading” link at the bottom of the new post does not take you to the body where the text left off. It takes you to the top. Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Sep 25 2025 15:13 utc | 219 @Sakineh Bagoom | Sep 25 2025 15:13 utc | 219 Confirmed. I see that as well. Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 25 2025 15:24 utc | 220 There are thousands of devices with different physical parameters running numerous OS of endless versions displaying through hundreds of kinds and versions of browsers. Although parameters are set for various, by deducing the object the page is being sent to, there are always differences in appearance, often resizing and so on. So firstly I would say not to fret about this too much, the transfer of basic functionality and readability was very smooth and near identical to previous, and it is what counts firstly. If line height is changed, some will find it better on their setup, and others will find it more difficult on theirs. To figure this out is often quite a lot of work, and not even including personal tastes. Containers and so on often have buffer zones around them also, so one tweak here is able to upset another kind of display there. Personally I am used to less line height but the current presentation is good also, especially on smaller screen …not having to zoom so much to find clarity, hence more writing is available per line…sometimes anyone speed reads, other times they just work their way through a text. Part of it is just what we are accustomed to also, but ‘whatever’ as long as it is somewhere near normal. I don’t think indent changes line height perception much, but it does change line length (is like being zoomed for that). Two bugs and not important … or maybe just one: 1. ‘Main’ button at bottom of a post I am finding behind the Android system action bar, so might be lifted higher from end of page if same for others. 2. In landscape mode on smaller screens Main page goes into three columns (which is ok for usability, as opposed to latest posts and archive etc. at end …which is fine for portrait) , but also individual posts also do so, with post and comments taking centre third of the screen, and just an empty third of a screen indent on each side, no matter zoom. I don’t use landscape mode much, but just noticed that. All essentials are right though, or close enough to, from this corner. Posted by: Ornot | Sep 25 2025 17:05 utc | 221 – I typed a comment and clicked on “Post Comment” and the blog responded with “Duplicate comment”. Am I the only one with this problem ? Posted by: WMG | Sep 25 2025 17:19 utc | 222 – I typed a comment and clicked on “Post Comment” and the blog responded with “Duplicate comment”. Am I the only one with this problem ? Posted by: WMG | Sep 25 2025 17:19 utc | 222 I wanted to type a comment in this thread https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/09/trumps-alleged-shift-on-ukraine-isnt-one when I got this error. But I was able to type this text in this thread without any problems. Odd, very odd. Posted by: WMG | Sep 25 2025 17:21 utc | 223 – I typed a comment and clicked on “Post Comment” and the blog responded with “Duplicate comment”. Am I the only one with this problem ? Posted by: WMG | Sep 25 2025 17:19 utc | 222 I wanted to type a comment in this thread https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/09/trumps-alleged-shift-on-ukraine-isnt-one when I got this error. But I was able to type this text in this thread without any problems. Odd, very odd. It seems that when someone posts a second comment in a thread then this error shows up. Posted by: WMG1 | Sep 25 2025 17:22 utc | 224 @ B. thanks for the reply. Maybe he wrote under a diffrent name here at MOA. Not TomGard. First saw him on Telepolis. Anyway…Congratulation’s once more! To you and us! But could you maybe change the Backroundcolor to neon green, the Letter type to Fraktur and make “Auferstanden aus Ruinen” run everytime one visits the page? Pleas? …yes i am drunk. Its a bar after all! Posted by: El Lissitzky | Sep 25 2025 17:25 utc | 225 – I typed a comment and clicked on “Post Comment” and the blog responded with “Duplicate comment”. Am I the only one with this problem ? Posted by: WMG | Sep 25 2025 17:19 utc | 222 I wanted to type a comment in this thread https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/09/trumps-alleged-shift-on-ukraine-isnt-one when I got this error. But I was able to type this text in this thread without any problems. Odd, very odd. It seems that when someone posts a second comment in a thread then this error shows up. Posted by: WMG1 | Sep 25 2025 17:22 utc | 224 I don’t see any recognizablr pattern. Posted by: WMG | Sep 25 2025 17:38 utc | 226 The site looks great, a very well-done replication of the original. But improved — now with a bookmark icon. 🙂 Posted by: Dave | Sep 25 2025 19:19 utc | 228 Just want too say 1) functionally everything seems fine: correct URL, no validation issues (and I’m on an old OS (Windoze 7) with an old browser (Opera)), and 2) I still think the line spacing is excessive. I won’t mention the latter again, as it’s been posted many times here. Thanks again! Posted by: George the Zeroth | Sep 25 2025 19:26 utc | 230 Other than the lack of a preview button, it used to be such, if I remember correctly, that in the main page there was a roll of most recent comments and when you clicked on the commentator’s handle you’d be brought to that comment on the page it’s at. Now it’s only taking me to the forst page. Can you fix that, b? Posted by: joey_n | Sep 25 2025 20:03 utc | 231 Like ability to click on commenters name in far right column to view comment directly. Posted by: Thurl | Sep 25 2025 20:51 utc | 232 @b That was well done – such a smooth conversion. It seems to be working better than the old software. Thanks. That must have been a lot of work. Posted by: hh | Sep 25 2025 21:22 utc | 233 B, It looks fantastic! I LOVE the new typeface. Elegant and easier to read. Makes your fine prose even more so. Posted by: Typingperson | Sep 25 2025 23:42 utc | 234 Perhaps a compromise at 1.25 Posted by: watcher | Sep 25 2025 7:22 utc | 205 I agree with many others that line-spacing should be reduced to closer to what it used to be. The line-spacing as it is now seems excessive, especially where blockquotes are used. Excessive vertical space used (and scrolling). 1.25 line spacing seems like a very good compromise. Font seems great, btw. Posted by: ThouShalt | Sep 26 2025 0:30 utc | 235 The suggestion for upvote/downvotes relates to the very annoying and utterly dishonest accusations by people like “William Gruff” about “TDS”. That kind of dishonest bullshit just doesn’t hold water on any sites with upvote/downvote. Go look at Zero Hedge and see how the “TDS” accusations are now downvoted and made fun of. Oh, ok we’re now supposed to believe that Gruff is a big Marxist who loves Trump. Ridiculous. Posted by: ThouShalt | Sep 26 2025 4:03 utc | 236 b, the effective transition it to be applauded — and hopefully remembered at fundraising time. We all owe you for MoA’s continued unique service. Maybe margins narrowed, & minor tweaks to line hight step by step. Love page numbered access, preview I’m sure will come in time. Much gratitude. Posted by: Mercury | Sep 26 2025 8:06 utc | 237 I’ll join the chorus singing thank you b. You’re the greatest. Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Sep 26 2025 12:01 utc | 238 Please go back to 1.0 line spacing. It appears you increased to 1.5 and that slows down reading comments considerably, and it also requires a lot more finger time on the screen scrolling. Outside of that – excellent and thank you!! Posted by: Slim | Sep 26 2025 21:02 utc | 239 congrats b, i’ve been through the same nightmare of moving from one platform to another. Stuff always disappears, no matter how careful… Wrong font spacing? There is something wrong with the new site, that makes it not look good. It may be the character or word spacing. Text on the old site carried more weight, both in a literal and figurative sense. The new site looks like it was printed in draft mode on a crappy old dot matrix printer. This has the psychological effect of making everything here feel like a draft, uninteresting and not carrying the full weight of the words. For comparison, a year ago I tweeted a screenshot of one of my comments made here on MoA. The old site looked good even on X. Posted by: Petri Krohn | Sep 27 2025 9:44 utc | 241 “Please let me know of any problems with this web-site or the blog’s functionality. Posted by b on September 24, 2025 at 06:50 UTC” Problem with the functionality: the previous version of MoA allowed searching past posts for a specified string. This was useful for finding a particular person’s posts, such as one’s own. (Unless the name you use is “b” or something.) Although it didn’t allow limiting the search to the poster’s name, it did have an option to sort for most recent posts. Now, however, not only is there no option to sort by time, it doesn’t even look at the poster’s name at all. When I try to find back my own posts, all it shows me is a list of every post with the word “modality” in it. Strangely, it also excludes every reply to me that would have included my name. Rare as they are, I know there must have been some. The current search functionality is therefore almost worthless. It would be very nice if someone could add back the search by time (only make it the default this time), fix it to include the poster’s name in the search, and add an option to search only the names (then we could find posts by “b” for example). Posted by: Dalit | Sep 27 2025 21:10 utc | 242 (I tried to post this yesterday, but it never showed up, so I’ll try again.) Site functionality issue: search used to search on everything, including the poster’s name, and had an option to sort most-recent vs most-‘relevant’. You could search for posts by a particular person (unless that person was “a” “b” “c” etc). Now when I try to find a recent post I made (not in the missing range, more recent than that), there’s no option to put recent posts on top, and even worse, it doesn’t even look at the poster’s name at all. All it finds for me is every post with the word “modality” regardless when it was written. It would be great to have back the previous functionality, and even batter to be able to search only on names. Posted by: Dalit | Sep 28 2025 3:07 utc | 243 Seconding the request for RSS/Atom support on the top level (when new posts appear). Thank you, and congratulations on surviving the bitrot! Posted by: choo | Sep 28 2025 5:02 utc | 244 /cheep ^.^ /cheep Posted by: titmouse | Sep 28 2025 9:52 utc | 245 Ahhhh … line spacing is much better (same as before). Posted by: George the Zeroth | Sep 28 2025 18:39 utc | 247 Now the Recent Comments sidebar has been fixed to redirect me to the correct page once again. Thanks, b! Posted by: joey_n | Sep 28 2025 19:15 utc | 248 Posted this in another thread. Posted by: George the Zeroth | Sep 28 2025 20:38 utc | 249 I have a new theory about the search function: it isn’t finding my past posts or anyone’s replies to me because it is only searching b’s high-level posts, and not looking at anything else. I noticed that it still finds every occurrence of “modality” but every one was written by b. While that’s nice to have, like when you want to find the one about the mass murder by Ukraine’s army on its return to Bucha, or the blatant lies about the marketplace in Kremench—, it’s far less useful than it used to be. Posted by: Dalit | Sep 29 2025 1:25 utc | 250 Duh. I get it. Posted by: George the Zeroth | Sep 29 2025 1:55 utc | 251 testing w1 w2 w3 w4 need to create the next one and then press again Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 29 2025 5:40 utc | 253 |
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