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Mic test. Testing. 123….
Sorry. old habit.
yes. yes it is.
You’re wanting the Change Membership page…. links don’t seem to be working, but it’s here:
http://ricochet.com/membership/
Except that you only want that if you’re going to “Gold/ Thatcher”. It looks like “Change Membership is $99, just like “Join” is, but perhaps I’m being overly pessimistic.
If you’re wanting to be “Platinum/ Reagan”, though, then you might want to log out and “join”, because that’s $399 when you “join” as a “Reagan”, but $499 if you “change” to a “platinum”.
In short, it seems clear that that part of the system is still in beta, and I would endorse your caution. Eventually, I’d like to wire them some money (I don’t have a card any more on my dollar account, and the exchange fees are terrible on my sterling card), but my sense is that they’re going to be hard at work on other stuff for a while yet. Membership frills seem like, well, frills, not necessities.
Yes, I know there are endless bugs–I myself had to try 20 times today before I finally got past the 540 Gateway error message. But you know what? If you’d seen what it looked like back in December, when Ricochet 2.0 was originally supposed to launch, you’d consider today’s site little less than a miracle.
Prayer, fasting, and bug removal. That’s my personal program for Lent.
This is a test. Does nesting run to two levels? Is Joseph right? (He usually is.)
testing…
Live is perhaps a strong word for the site at this point. Undead seems closer to the mark.
I haven’t had anything to drink, osiffer! Not in the past five minutes!
No. And don’t call him Shirley.
That would make too much sense.
This comment is nested two levels. Note there is no REPLY link under it, because we have reached the nesting limit.
This comment is nested one level.
P.S. The numbers don’t display properly for comments at this level. I assume this should be comment #11.1.3, but all I see is:
Peter, why didn’t you just explain from the start that 2.0 was a Lenten penance for us all???
Works for me… as long as you have everything fixed by Easter! ;-)
Does anyone else notice that some of the people who were most opposed to the nested comments feature now seem to be using the nested comments feature? Like, a lot?
Welcome back. Of course I’ll upgrade my membership to the Reagan/Platinum (even though one page says it’s $399 and another says it’s $499) but right now I’m getting error messages on that page, something about “Invalid form configuration.”
Although I’ll need the special Rob Long Signature Edition RINO Squish tote bag since some NPR podcasts coexist happily alongside my Ricochet podcasts. (Radiolab, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Fresh Air if the guest interests me, and This American Life, even though I know This American Life is PRI, not NPR) Because I contain multitudes like that.
Having been weaned on The WELL (yes, I come from the old-timey days of computing) I’ve long had a knee-jerk response against nested comments, but age has softened my view on the subject. It might be one of the many things my 19-year-old self was wrong about.
Now I just need to decide whether to mark the arrival of Ricochet 2.0 with a less homicidal nom de keyboard…
Congratulations to Team Ricochet for pulling this off. Well done. Thanks for your patience with all of us. Even those of us who are tools.
For $499, I would want to know exactly what I am getting. Where will that be listed?
Also, do we need to re-enter billing information now, or wait?
Well, I’m bummed. My 2nd favorite thing about this site was the ability to click on MORE and stay on the page. Dagnabbit. I’d so much rather stay on one page instead of clicking back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. It will limit what I decide to read, as it does on all other sites. The site is pretty, but . . . I never thought it was broken in the first place. I am just here to read. Everything else is ruffles and filigree.
I am also planning on upgrading membership but will wait a few more weeks until some of the bugs have been fixed.
I’ve seem numerous 504 Gateway error screens as well.
And the point of the change is? I thought it was ‘Progressives’ that were crippled in their view of ‘what was’ and ‘what is’ by their ‘novelty gene’?
It’s intentional so everyone can see exactly what we’re talking about.
Hmmm. In 2.0, what I see on my screen “mushes together” quotes and replies to quotes … it looks as though we are being “nudged” toward using the nested comments, because “quoting” has been made difficult to follow.
I used to have an easy way to switch between Main Feed, Member Feed, and Converstations I’m Following … I’m not seeing anything to make that easy, now. Sigh.
Me too.
Hilarious, Frank.
Now – to see if quoting and paragraph formatting both work from an iPad in this new version.
Hopefully they do.
If anyone’s interested in what I’m talking about on difficulty in following quotes because of lack of visual distinction between quotes and comments *on* those quotes … see Comment #45 (and nested replies, lol) in “The conversion appears complete”
BTW, I had no edit button for #28 above! :/
I will trust that there will be things I like about the new platform, but right now I’m seeing what’s missing.
I don’t understand what criteria are used for the system to “decide” when I may have an “edit” button on one of my comments. logical rule would be that I may edit *any* of my comments at any time. Instead, the appearance of the “edit” button seems almost random. Perplexed and frustrated, I am.
Exactly. As these nests push other preexisting comments further and further back, and force people to reread numerous pages of comments they already read in order to find new content, they will join our glorious anti-nesting uprising.