Roadguy’s blog is getting a new look, new address
Posted on July 31st, 2009 – 11:46 AMBy Roadguy
After three years in WordPress, the Roadguy blog is being moved into startribune.com’s main publishing system. The transition is underway sometime today (so thank you for your patience). Alert readers who follow the blog via RSS will probably need to update to the latest URL:
http://www.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy.html
The tech gurus are also working to make sure that the www.startribune.com/roadguy redirect gets you to the right place.
Perhaps the biggest change for regular alert readers will be that you’ll need to be a registered user of startribune.com to make comments on the blog. Under the old system, each blog had its own commenting setup; now, once you’re logged into startribune.com, you can make comments anywhere under a single name.
Not sure exactly when this will all be complete, but our regularly scheduled transportation conversations will resume ASAP. (And the WordPress archive, with nearly 900 posts, will still be around, so you can revisit the old ones.)
3 Responses to "Roadguy’s blog is getting a new look, new address"
Geez, another frigging login. I’m sooo tired of remembering all that I likely won’t be bothered to to subscribe let alone reply.
While I understand and appreciate people’s desire for anonymity while posting online, I wish there was a stricter policy for users. There are a fair number of reasonably intelligent posters who often provide useful and insightful comments on any given subject. But there seem to be more who simply enjoy cutting down the opinions (or more often the people) they don’t agree with. I’m not afraid of disagreement or healthy debate, but I find it difficult to take seriously any guerilla-style comments from someone with an idiotic username.
NO!!!!!! The new page sucks. It sucks A LOT!
First - my current name, well, that’s got to go because it has spaces and punctuation.
Second, I have a very sneaky suspicion that we will be clicking though 27 pages of posts so the Strib can crank up its website hits, just as it does with stories. Screw that. I’m bored with the 4 comments per page spread across 27 pages.
Third, bored with the like/don’t like options and hope that doesn’t come around. It’s only good to get an idea whether conservatives or liberals are reading any given story.
Roadguy, it’s been a nice run, but I’m betting that I’ll be checking out soon. Too bad since it’s the only redeeming quality of this website. Looks like Pioneer Press here I come.
