but: threaded comments are a must. i know the blogging world loves their flat comment threads, but i’ve used threaded comments for 20+ years, dammit, and i am not going back to the stone ages while every blogging company takes 5 years to reinvent the wheel. and no, you can’t install the plugin referred to above; this site doesn’t provide for that. it would be difficult for them to write the themes so they’d work with all sorts of plugins, so you don’t get that. maybe one could do some wizardry with CSS, but to actually save your own CSS here you have to pay.

the documentation is very muddled as to what’s possible to do on this site versus what’s possible with wordpress, the software package you can install on your own host in general. after i browsed through a bunch of pages i figured that they were too interconnected and started looking at the forums for info instead.

if you need help, those forums are of good use for a beginner, and at least you can search them (that’s how i found out you can’t use that plugin).

i like wordpress, the software itself, but i will probably have to roll my own to be happy.

– pleonastic@lj, piranha@journalfen (yay! i could get my old usenet name!)

GOOD LORD, AJA.

I wonder if the influx of LJ people will put pressure on Wordpress to figure out their comments into some kind of threading system…

I am on episode 45, I started watching from episode 40 because that is where the translated manga is in the US and it is getting SO EXCITING and I just couldn’t stand waiting ANY LONGER for the rest of it, and it finally occurred to me that since the ENTIRE ANIME is online, there is absolutely no reason for me to put myself through the pain of waiting.

AND I AM SO GLAD I DECIDED TO STOP PUTTING MYSELF THROUGH THE PAIN OF WAITING. BECAUSE AS EXCITING AS THE MANGA WAS PRE-EPISODE 40, POST-EPISODE 40 JUST GETS BETTER AND BETTER WITH EVERY NEW TWIST. ahhh i just got to the part where a certain character’s parent took off a certain accessory to expose a certain very evil side and I am not sure if it is because she is in fact the certain character in drag or is just the Czechoslovakian Twoface and I probably didn’t do a good job of shielding any innocent passerby from series spoilers in that sentence but the point is HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK is basically how I’m feeling right now. I love everything about the series so far and am working to get everyone around me to watch it so they can talk about it with me. THANK YOU FOR RECOMMENDING !!!!!

Your work situation sounds incredibly shitty atm. >:( This is not okay.

I AM ON Y!M RIGHT NOW WHY DON’T YOU COME ON Y!M RIGHT NOW! ALSO WHOA COINCIDENCE I ALMOST EMAILED YOU YESTERDAY TOO ACTUALLY, BUT IT WAS GOING TO BE ALL “PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TALK ABOUT MONSTER WITH ME” AND THAT FELT UNBELIEVABLY INSENSITIVE IDK. but even if it is not to talk about monster i really really want to talk to you, yes!

I HATE NOT BEING ABLE TO JUST CLICK A LINK AND DIRECTLY REPLY TO YOU! GOD! editing is the best i can do. i hope you see your retardedly edited post, which i feel is still less retarded-looking than commenting right below a person. anyway. MONSTER!!!!!!!! you have seen it all? i have not seen it all, only read the manga. (yeah, yeah). but OMG MONSTER!!!!!!

i am not on y!m right now becuase i am still at work, and can i just say that i *HATE* it when POs SCHEDULE KIDS WITHOUT, OH, *LOOKING* AT THE SCHEDULE FIRST.

granted, i really wanted to transition over to a more professional, blogosphere-type atmosphere in a way; and journalfen is too much “the place where i go to wank” to ever *not* be.

then again, i realy don’t think it’s possible for me to be “professional.” i keep trying to imagine my grown-up professional, writerly blog without yahoo emoticons. :( i know this will never happen

I REALLY MISS YOU, I NEARLY EMAILED YOU HALF AN HOUR AGO AND HERE YOU ARE! CLEARLY I CALLED YOU TO ME WITH MY MIND. :D

I also feel I have preserved a modicum of my dignity this way.

Anyway hi Aja! I am glad I stumbled upon the blog you will actually be updating (because I am reading-challenged apparently and thought jf was going to be your primary home from now on…).

I hope the move is going well thus far! :)

i was seriously about to cry, i had 8 comments to approve this morning, i was like, I CANNOT LIVE LIKE THIS

AND OMG THIS PLACE IS DRIVING ME ABSOLUTELY CRAZY FOR THE SAME REASONS YOU POINTED OUT. DX

IT’S LIKE HOPPING INTO A GETAWAY CAR THAT ONLY WORKS IN REVERSE