Once again, we attempt to reinvent the NOVA TownHall Blog. This was a decision based less on whimsy than expediency, because the Movable Type version was running too slow on our new host.
And in the brave, incisive, hard-charging new world being forged here by the NOVA TownHall authors and commenters, “slow” simply deserves no place in our collective vocabulary.
This version of the blog, you will note, resides right at the NOVA TownHall site root, because over the past 4+ years of existence NVTH has evolved into a blog first, and everything else second. If we start having meetings again, we can certainly advertise and organize them here.
For the time being, both the old-new NOVA TownHall Blog and the new-new NOVA TownHall Blog will operate concurrently. This may be confusing, but I think it will be the good kind of confusing. Based on past experience, upgrading the blog is nothing if not a cluster-you-know-what, and by letting them both run we should minimize the downtime. This also buys me a lot of time to make sure comments work, spam gets deflected, the sidebars get rebuilt, and I learn WordPress. Eventually, all the new, exciting action will be here.
I am especially encouraged by the fact that installing WordPress, compared to installing MT, is like making nachos compares to decoding the human genome.
Thanks for putting up with yet another transitional phase here, and let’s hope this is the last one for a few years.
Tags: novatownhall, NVTH Blog
First comment! It will be interesting to see how this most problematic aspect of every new NVTH blog develops. Spammers, beware, because though we usually take a few hits at first, we always come back at you slicing like frickin’ hammers.
Here is a test comment.
Looks good!
Another test comment
I was beginning to wonder if it were just me.
This does seem a lot faster, and hopefully, the security will be better.
Are you going to make it possible to post comments on the previous blog?
BTW looks good.
wow, it is faster, and NO captcha!
No, unfortunately we are completely locked out of the old site. Something in this WordPress installation killed it and I cannot for the life of me figure out what it was. Ideally I would have liked to put a message on every page in the sidebar over there. Oh well, can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs…
Login?
Hmmm. It said my login failed for my first attempt to comment. Ain’t modern technology grand?
Neither Linda nor I had to log in to comment. Not sure what that is about.
I don’t know, either. It did not do that later.
for what it is worth, I was asked to login as well, once.
Nice new blog! I’m impressed!
Now if you’d just try reinventing yourselves and not just your blog…
(Hee hee! I kill me sometimes.)
InSanity,
Good to see you are still ambling about.
Now, when is the humor implant due again?
Let’s do this thing. Post something i can sink my teeth into!!!!
“I kill me sometimes.” (in)Sanity
We could only hope.
Ping! (Is this thing on?)
You quoted GK Chesterton — I love you (and Linda too, of course)…
Login once only. Fast. Easy. I see you also moved a lunatic over to the new site. I really like not having to strain figuring out what captcha line I need to copy. Worth the price of admission.
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