Either way, I still enjoy the site and its freeness even though it has the occasional problems. Maybe you should hire the Bobs to ‘fix the glitches’.

-Matt

RF, Speaking as a daily reader, I have to ask, is there a threshold, a magical number of pageviews that might lead you to move to a “show all” as the default for reading comments?

I do believe there is, but we’re not there yet. We’d need to double site traffic. As you say, perhaps we could work out a technical solution to reward our regular readers with less GD hassle.

In fact, there are LOTS of things we could do to improve the commenting and viewing comments deal. But we are in that conundrum of which you speak. We need more page views and visitors to pay for technical support/programming. We need more technical support/programming to get more visitors.

The big Kahuna: switching to the new WP platform. First and foremost, I don’t want the site to crash (fun dayn moyl in gots oyern). We ALL struggled mightily with site stability, and for that I apologize. Still. But second, the new platform SHOULD open up some possibilities for some way cool WP plug-ins.

Suffice it to say, I have had epic battles in this area, and probably will do so again. Throughout it all, your patience and support has given me– and the rest of the TTAC team– strength to carry on. Thanks.

Wait, is that a South Jersey reference to the place we used to buy alcohol underage at?

I’m not a WP maven, so I don’t know if it is possible to have a “show all comments” bit be attached to a user’s login credentials… but if it could I bet those of us TTAC addicts would really appreciate not having to jump through a couple of hoops (not to mention page reloads and more traffic from your server**) just to get all of our crack, er… read all the comments.. while still leaving the default, shorter, pages for your “casual readers”. best of both worlds, no?

–chuck

**I’m in the Internet Server biz in my day job, and I have seen the effect traffic can have for a website. It is both a blessing (popularity + ad revenue) and a curse (bandwidth costs and server stability.) While I understand your desire for the blessings, beware of bringing on the curse.