Starting sometime this morning, I noticed the blog view (http://boingboing.net/page/1) isn’t showing the BBS link or the complete date (except for Mark’s gadgets post).
Instead of showing [Author] at [W, MM DD, YYYY]commentsshare, it’s only showing [Author] at [W] with no direct link to the BBS comments.
Rob is doing a lot of work on the templates today. Please report the errors you see but be patient, knowing we are actively working to make boing boing lovely.
I cannot speak for @beschizza but I am guessing so few people clicked on those original menu items, when spread out as individual words, that they were better rolled into an “oh this is so rare, just click here first if you really need them and they will appear” menu. The usage was so low that you can’t justify the screen space for them any more, and as we all know, cleanliness is next to boingliness.
That is kind of how the hamburger ☰ works in practice. I bet your web browser even has one!
I’m also seeing some scattered posts where the link through for the bbs at the bottom doesn’t work, and the topic doesn’t seem to exist on the bbs itself. Like Rob’s current post on Cuban cigars.
Aside from running into self-playing videos (BOOOOOOO!), I’ve also noticed that the blog articles are no longer showing if/how many comments have been posted.
What would be nice is if the big Boing Boing graphic up top, while you’re in the blog view, linked back to the blog itself, instead of the root magazine-style page.
The point, at least for me, was to have a one-click solution for refreshing the page.