[rick]

Yep, whartung, you're right about "everything is too big." I completely agree. We will be working on that during the coming week.

I think we also need to provide indicators of content type, and we need to make it easy for you to see and filter them to just the ones you want to see.

We'll see if we can deal with this username issue tomorrow. We still have the data we had in the old database, so we should still be able to show usernames as we used to. These are, however, the usernames people have had for years - our JL templates just showed other information. I like the old JL approach better.

I disagree about the Zone Leaders - they have accepted positions of responsibility for leadership, and they deserve to be recognized. Status is an important tool in a social system, and we have chosen to make clear who these Zone Leaders are by displaying their avatars on the pages. Maybe we'll make an option for it, I don't know.

WOW, so much good stuff in your posting. It could start a half-dozen additional threads, at least. Maybe it would be good to do that? Thanks for the power-dump - there's a lot to digest here.

Rick