I've been keeping this blog up-to-date offline, and continuing my Pink Film Archive work on the other two blogs. Using the new interface just on these two image-archive blogs to copy information and identify images has convinced me though: The new Interface is an utter, unmitigated disaster, and I don't want to use it if/when I am able to at home. It is slow and clumsy, and not just because I am unfamiliar with it. With the old interface, I could identify and label 30-40 poster images in half an hour. After familiarizing myself with it, using it for a week, I am able to go through about 5 images in a half hour. Most of that time is spent waiting for pages to load. Typing or clicking anything is SLOOOWWW. The "Preview" feature now, completely unnecessarily, opens in a new page, which takes about a quarter minute to load on a new, state-of-the-art computer. (In the old interface I could see a preview instantaneously even on my 15-year-old clunker at home.) Also, unbelievably, the interface is not even ready for public presentation. I see obvious bugs which are worked out a few days later, presumably after enough of us guinea pigs squawk. The incompetents who foisted this on the public did not do even basic testing first... It is absolutely reprehensible that this garbage should be forced on us when a workable-- if clunky-- interface was already in place, and is still perfectly usable, but is refused as an option. The blog still LOOKS the same, so there was absolutely no reason not to allow use of the old interface. Anyway, I am looking for a new Blog host site.
Per Boobpedian Honorable's suggestion, I am looking into Tumbler at the moment. If anyone else has any recommendations-- a free blog host with minimal java/razzle-dazzle garbage, and which allows adult content-- I will appreciate a recommendation. For now, expect to see this blog continued elsewhere eventually. I'll be sure to drop a note here, of course...
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