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wow. not only are the same posts being posted all the time now. but now we get a recap of the same posts. brilliant AT!

now i have to slip even more crap.

Well I love it - I don't have time to come here 3-4 times a day! Can we get comment notification, coz a few times I've posted a comment, then wondered if anyone replied, but not been bothered to search?

Faynilla, they always post each cities hot posts at the end of the week. A lot of the good posts get buried by all the crap, but that's a different issue of volume and quality control.

if you go to your profile page all your comments will be there and you can click it to go to the page you commented.. its a good iidea.. can we get comment notification pweeze???

I think I haven't figured out how to use AT. I usually browse the main blog throughout the day. However, with the recent proliferation of articles, the ones that I saw at some time during the day, but didn't have the time to comment on, have disappeared into the archive by the time I come back to look at them. The five archive pages used to be good for a couple of days, but now hold less than a days worth of posts.

As the comments are one of the most interesting aspects of AT, this is somewhat disappointing. There are many possible solutions, including better quality control (check the number of articles nobody comments - presumably that reflects the interest level). Or how about keeping the most hotly debated topics around on the main page, rather than letting them slip into oblivion?

Thanks Faynilla - I hadn't realised that! (That's if you see this of course! LOL)

particlebored - I just sent them a feedback suggestion to expand the available pages to 10, for the same reason. By the time I get back to see how certain posts fared with commenters, it's in the Archives and a pain to find. I usually associate the post with the PICTURE, not necessarily the title, so the Archives is not easy to navigate, for me.

That would be better. Usually I fish things out of the top 5 posts, the link to my profile, or as a last resort, skimming through each city... It seems that they are leaning toward having to pick out your city and stick to it, in an effort to be so large as to have 7 different blogs.

The problem I have with this, is I tend to read and post to the quick things "now," in between getting some work done, but wish to return to some of the more substantial articles later when I get home, and then they're buried and nobody is reading responses anymore.

Some of the posts are pretty boring and generic, it's more interesting to read one person's blog, they write in the first person and they really express what they like about what they've found. I wish I could get more of a sense for each poster on this blog. I know what kind of stupid things I can expect from a few predictable posters, and I like the writing style and/or tasteful finds of a few others, but it's mostly so blandly written. On the fly, repeated stuff, no feeling, no expression, canned expression. Might be cool stuff, but what meaning does it have to you? What is its place on this blog? What kind of quality is the blog trying to represent by expanding?

Oh, about the profile/finding comments thing, sometimes I don't comment, but want to follow the conversation in the comments... it's hard to check back without a "favorite" button or some such inside AT. I can do it with my browser, but I'm pretty sure that is available to my employers to see, as well.

Yeah - I feel like AT is too prolific and some of the posts are rather bland. I'd advocate fewer posts that engages the readership in conversations and more comments. I sometimes wonder if I've missed anything particulary interesting but there are so many posts that now I don't put forth the effort to see what was posted in the past day or two.

Pictures in the archive would be great!