I agree and those who have contributed in helpfulness and creativity, I thank for their spirit of camaraderie, but I am badly worried by the design of the blog. If I interpret it correctly, the idea is to encourage browsing randomly through the accumulated Q&A. However, as I experience it, the effect is maddening. You never know when what you are looking for , particularly among the recent questions, whether it will have disappeared, or where to. I beg the guardians and designers of the blog, either to redseign it or add a feature such that one could locate and follow threads and/or titles. At the very least the front page should permit one to see the most recent questions and to page back indefinitely, without having the item you last looked at vanishing till ... sometime.
The keyword facility is totally inadequate. The hours I have spent trying to locate something that I had intended answering or correcting, you would hardly believe.
So, please, please, there are rival blogs out there, products of the highest quality; we have some of the best background and support for this one, but the design hamstrings and paralyses us and devours our stamina, let alone our patience. Unless something is done soon, I predict that a lot of our readers will vote with their feet, as I suspect some erudite, but impatient spirits have done already.
And it would be SO nice if we could look at the front page and see how many answers there were to each item, and even nicer if we knew who had most recently contributed, so that we knew whether to spend time and bandwodth paging in to see what had happened since last time. Why should we be punished for wanting to know what there was to see?
Any comments anyone?
Jon
