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  So it's not just my computer! I'm on a Mac and use Firefox, too, and everytime I get some wierd box talking about script and do i want to continue downloading and then I get that rainbow ball going round and round and I cross my fingers hoping firefox hasn't frozen and I'll have to force quit and start all over again. Now I have two accounts, one I can't access because a password e-mail was never received even though I have contacted the "bug department" several times, and I can't update to my newer e-mail address because of this. And even typing this is difficult because it seems the keys I hit aren't coordinated with what's coming up on the page, something I don't notice on any other site. Another site I visit fairly often also did a redesign and it's full of bugs, even worse than this one if you can believe that. It's so bad I can't even open it from a bookmark but have to google search it and open from there. Obviously that's not going to happen.

  As far as news and opinions goes, to me that's not an issue. I can pretty much tell what's news and what's opinions and personally I like them mixed - opinions and news in the same piece, which was what I liked about gristmill. I'd check on the news occasionally to see what Grist though newsworthy, but it was the opinions that I liked most because I like to think, I like to be challenged and I like to be opened to new perspectives. One of the things that always irked me about publishers of magazines and newsletters (back in the day when such things existed, before there was an internet and writers actually got paid for what they wrote) is their insistance on objectivity and balance which to me meant I had to give both sides equal credence even when one was actually (and factually not just in my opinion) wrong. Of course after enough time goes by the truth will come out. Remember when climate change wasn't accepted as fact, just some left/radical plot against the status quo? Or when clearcutting old growth was the thing to do and anyone who disagreed was a tree hugger, which was always supposed to be a derogatory thing to call someone? Anyway, I digress. Hopefully one day I'll check this site and find my old friend back. And if there are any typos or whatever in this, don't blame me, blame whatever wierd connection is happening between my keyboard and this comment box.

  On Welcome to the new Grist! posted 7 months ago 106 Responses

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  So it's not just my computer! I'm on a Mac and use Firefox, too, and everytime I get some wierd box talking about script and do i want to continue downloading and then I get that rainbow ball going round and round and I cross my fingers hoping firefox hasn't frozen and I'll have to force quit and start all over again. Now I have two accounts, one I can't access because a password e-mail was never received even though I have contacted the "bug department" several times, and I can't update to my newer e-mail address because of this. And even typing this is difficult because it seems the keys I hit aren't coordinated with what's coming up on the page, something I don't notice on any other site. Another site I visit fairly often also did a redesign and it's full of bugs, even worse than this one if you can believe that. It's so bad I can't even open it from a bookmark but have to google search it and open from there. Obviously that's not going to happen.

  As far as news and opinions goes, to me that's not an issue. I can pretty much tell what's news and what's opinions and personally I like them mixed - opinions and news in the same piece, which was what I liked about gristmill. I'd check on the news occasionally to see what Grist though newsworthy, but it was the opinions that I liked most because I like to think, I like to be challenged and I like to be opened to new perspectives. One of the things that always irked me about publishers of magazines and newsletters (back in the day when such things existed, before there was an internet and writers actually got paid for what they wrote) is their insistance on objectivity and balance which to me meant I had to give both sides equal credence even when one was actually (and factually not just in my opinion) wrong. Of course after enough time goes by the truth will come out. Remember when climate change wasn't accepted as fact, just some left/radical plot against the status quo? Or when clearcutting old growth was the thing to do and anyone who disagreed was a tree hugger, which was always supposed to be a derogatory thing to call someone? Anyway, I digress. Hopefully one day I'll check this site and find my old friend back. And if there are any typos or whatever in this, don't blame me, blame whatever wierd connection is happening between my keyboard and this comment box.

  On Welcome to the new Grist! posted 7 months ago 106 Responses

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  So it's not just my computer! I'm on a Mac and use Firefox, too, and everytime I get some wierd box talking about script and do i want to continue downloading and then I get that rainbow ball going round and round and I cross my fingers hoping firefox hasn't frozen and I'll have to force quit and start all over again. Now I have two accounts, one I can't access because a password e-mail was never received even though I have contacted the "bug department" several times, and I can't update to my newer e-mail address because of this. And even typing this is difficult because it seems the keys I hit aren't coordinated with what's coming up on the page, something I don't notice on any other site. Another site I visit fairly often also did a redesign and it's full of bugs, even worse than this one if you can believe that. It's so bad I can't even open it from a bookmark but have to google search it and open from there. Obviously that's not going to happen.

  As far as news and opinions goes, to me that's not an issue. I can pretty much tell what's news and what's opinions and personally I like them mixed - opinions and news in the same piece, which was what I liked about gristmill. I'd check on the news occasionally to see what Grist though newsworthy, but it was the opinions that I liked most because I like to think, I like to be challenged and I like to be opened to new perspectives. One of the things that always irked me about publishers of magazines and newsletters (back in the day when such things existed, before there was an internet and writers actually got paid for what they wrote) is their insistance on objectivity and balance which to me meant I had to give both sides equal credence even when one was actually (and factually not just in my opinion) wrong. Of course after enough time goes by the truth will come out. Remember when climate change wasn't accepted as fact, just some left/radical plot against the status quo? Or when clearcutting old growth was the thing to do and anyone who disagreed was a tree hugger, which was always supposed to be a derogatory thing to call someone? Anyway, I digress. Hopefully one day I'll check this site and find my old friend back. And if there are any typos or whatever in this, don't blame me, blame whatever wierd connection is happening between my keyboard and this comment box.

  On Welcome to the new Grist! posted 7 months ago 106 Responses

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  So it's not just my computer! I'm on a Mac and use Firefox, too, and everytime I get some wierd box talking about script and do i want to continue downloading and then I get that rainbow ball going round and round and I cross my fingers hoping firefox hasn't frozen and I'll have to force quit and start all over again. Now I have two accounts, one I can't access because a password e-mail was never received even though I have contacted the "bug department" several times, and I can't update to my newer e-mail address because of this. And even typing this is difficult because it seems the keys I hit aren't coordinated with what's coming up on the page, something I don't notice on any other site. Another site I visit fairly often also did a redesign and it's full of bugs, even worse than this one if you can believe that. It's so bad I can't even open it from a bookmark but have to google search it and open from there. Obviously that's not going to happen.

  As far as news and opinions goes, to me that's not an issue. I can pretty much tell what's news and what's opinions and personally I like them mixed - opinions and news in the same piece, which was what I liked about gristmill. I'd check on the news occasionally to see what Grist though newsworthy, but it was the opinions that I liked most because I like to think, I like to be challenged and I like to be opened to new perspectives. One of the things that always irked me about publishers of magazines and newsletters (back in the day when such things existed, before there was an internet and writers actually got paid for what they wrote) is their insistance on objectivity and balance which to me meant I had to give both sides equal credence even when one was actually (and factually not just in my opinion) wrong. Of course after enough time goes by the truth will come out. Remember when climate change wasn't accepted as fact, just some left/radical plot against the status quo? Or when clearcutting old growth was the thing to do and anyone who disagreed was a tree hugger, which was always supposed to be a derogatory thing to call someone? Anyway, I digress. Hopefully one day I'll check this site and find my old friend back. And if there are any typos or whatever in this, don't blame me, blame whatever wierd connection is happening between my keyboard and this comment box.

  On Welcome to the new Grist! posted 7 months ago 106 Responses

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  I keep on coming back, hoping things have improved or I've perhaps gotten used to them, but no such luck. I miss gristmill and being able to scroll though various articles and comments. And unless I'm missing it no such thing exists on this site. It's just like so many other bloggs now, which I check out on occasion, but never regularly and usually don't bother to comment because I won't be back to see if anyone responded or if I added something others felt important to the discussion. Even though I never met the writers or posters (to my knowledge anyway - who knows - in my travels in my "past life" as an activist/conference speaker/presenter maybe I did) gristmill felt like a community of sorts. Now the pieces have been broken up and repositioned in ways that, for me, destroyed that feeling. I'm curious if the "powers that be" at Grist will take the criticisms of so many of us that are basically saying similar things to heart and try and revamp some aspects of the site to give us what we want or if the thing was to bring in new, perhaps younger, folks.

  On Welcome to the new Grist! posted 7 months ago 106 Responses