h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

<--------Still views the site exclusively in Goo.

I've sort of gotten used to Brunel ... but I suppose I'll try it out in Goo for the smeg of it.

I have no idea how anyone can view the site in Brunel. Even Alabastard is better than that.

I still have Goo Classic. It just feels natural.

That's how I feel.

I hate Brunel, but I'm stuck with it: in Alabaster & Goo I use frames, and I'm one of the people suffering from the cache problem. You absolutely cannot get alabaster frames to refresh, even with Ctrl-F5 in Firefox.

Ew. I thought I had a problem with just needing to refresh ...

Yeah, I used to use frames, but I've stopped.

I generally try not to use frames when I can avoid them in general.

I like frames. For instance, those frameless glasses they're coming out with now kinda creep me out.

I use frames. It makes it easier for me to jump around to different conversations in the same forum.

I'm also in Expert Mode, though I honestly have no idea what that means.

I haven't a clue what that means either. I suppose I could try turning it off, just to see what happens ...

In Goo, I think it adds those little red and green LEDs that let you see exactly which post each response is too... which is only really usefull when comments are made out of order, or if you're at the bottom of a thread and think you might not notice... actually, I think it might make more sense to call it "inexpert" mode.

Yeah, it implies a whole different way of looking at conversations than how we actually do participate. In Brunel, the thingy looks like the governor on a steam engine, which is, I suppose, thematically correct.

Whose idea was Brunel, anyway? It makes me want to run away every time I accidentally catch a glimpse of it.

I didn't do it!

Riiiiiiiiight....