Well, I think normal babies stop eating when they're full - and it's almost impossible to force them to drink milk when they're not hungry.
The parents overfed him by feeding him milk every hour, but there may be something to the baby that it *wants* milk every hour (of course after a while, it's just habit).
Ah, I thought that load time would be a big deal. We've done a lot of work on "under the hood" of Neatorama to make it load faster on a limited set of hardware, but a lot of the lag is actually from the ad servers (of which I have no control over).
Sadly, ads are a necessity for this blog. I was lucky to be able to get top-tier (or close to it anyhow - no stupid blinkin' ads) that pays a little better, but we have to live with their ad servers' lag time and the eccentricities of the ads.
With a few exceptions, "bad" banners happen intermittently - if you find it hard to see Neatorama, chances are your browser just happen to get (and cache) a bad Flash banner. Simply delete your browser's cache and reload it - 99.9% of the problem goes away.
I've said it before: I'm ambivalent about adblock. It takes revenue away from the sites that you visit.
I'm surprised no one has complained about length of Neato's front page. We actually used to have longer front page a while back (50 posts), now we've pared it down to 30.
I'm also surprised to see how many people remember old posts :) After 12,000+ posts, even I don't remember what's on the blog ...
Great suggestions so far (it'll take me a while to digest them) - please keep 'em coming! I'll respond more when I get a chance later today.
The parents overfed him by feeding him milk every hour, but there may be something to the baby that it *wants* milk every hour (of course after a while, it's just habit).
Sadly, ads are a necessity for this blog. I was lucky to be able to get top-tier (or close to it anyhow - no stupid blinkin' ads) that pays a little better, but we have to live with their ad servers' lag time and the eccentricities of the ads.
With a few exceptions, "bad" banners happen intermittently - if you find it hard to see Neatorama, chances are your browser just happen to get (and cache) a bad Flash banner. Simply delete your browser's cache and reload it - 99.9% of the problem goes away.
I've said it before: I'm ambivalent about adblock. It takes revenue away from the sites that you visit.
I'm surprised no one has complained about length of Neato's front page. We actually used to have longer front page a while back (50 posts), now we've pared it down to 30.
I'm also surprised to see how many people remember old posts :) After 12,000+ posts, even I don't remember what's on the blog ...
Great suggestions so far (it'll take me a while to digest them) - please keep 'em coming! I'll respond more when I get a chance later today.
Thank you for the bridge suggestions! Keep 'em coming - some of them are definitely beautiful.