Love the new expanded sections...

I appreciate your feedback, but it's just not possible to have everything on the front page. The page is really too busy and crowded as it is. The front page is primarily aimed at newbies, to let them know what the site is about. Like a magazine cover, it should tempt them into opening it up and seeing what is inside.

Blogs are particularly problematic on the front page. Blogs are unmoderated and are a crap shoot regarding content, formatting and spam. The section on the front page is just to show newbies that the blogs exists. If we were to consider expanding the blog section on the front page, we would have to start defaulting to blogs NOT appearing on the front page without approval. As it is we rely on blogs bumping each other off the front page at regular intervals so we don't have to monitor what is up there 24/7.

Bloggers who want their reviews or articles to stay up on the front page longer should submit them as articles - let me clean out the garbage code, fix the pictures so they don't break the template, etc - and then push it to the front page and keep it there for the day. We are at a point now where we can feature two article items a day. The front page is all set up to make that jump. Just waiting for our blogging members to make that leap themselves.


'Power' users should have these links book marked:

This Week on FAT (I've been moving stuff around to stick this link on the front page)

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Also, use the drop down tab in the top right corner of the site. You can use the the arrows in the READ column to scroll through the most recent 9 articles/blogs/news.

Alternately, you can subscribe to the Fort (button at the top of the page next to the login and get a daily email with a list of everything that was published that day.