Also, while I appreciate your sentiment that my fellow bloggers and I are the ones who have to be happy with the site I am going to disagree. You and all our other readers are only going to keep coming back if you find our site useful and intuitive. I’m on here countless hours everyday and know the site inside and out, because of that it is so easy for me to take for granted how usable (or unusable) our readers feel the site is.

So please, keep the feedback coming. It is much appreciated and your perspective is needed. We want to make this place as good as protoslackers can possibly make it.

I also agree with your logic for comments and most popular.

Lastly, I think a good topic for the first poll is how many potatoes did Man Overboard find in his first floor toilet tank this morning.

With the recent posts option I can quickly see if something new is added. I feel this is only a perk for regulars to the site that do not wish to scroll or are just looking for a particular blogger to post something.

As a business minded person I see the value of having the popular posts where newcomers will likely stick around on the site by checking out the best of what it has to offer.

If I had to choose one to fall by the wayside I guess I would have to go with recent posts just because I value the other two options slightly more.

I was also wondering how you plan to use the reintroduced blogs. Will they be placed randomly on the site? How often will they be reintroduced…1 per week/per day? The only reason I am asking is because I have to scroll through two old posts before I can see the most current. I guess this is where the recent post option comes into value for me again.
I am interested with the polling option and look forward to the new changes to come.

I have a quick question about the sidebar having recent posts, recent comments, and popular posts. Since we are really trying to crack down on a long sidebar which of those three categories do you feel is the least valuable to a reader? The reason I ask is that our thought process is to keep the area short and clean so that it does not run real long on posts with shorter articles, like it did on the past version of our site. The other reason, is that in the not too distant future we will be adding some other important functions to the right sidebar, one feature being a poll.

I also feel you should give some thought about adding a link to the page that would enable readers to share or send friend that particular blog. I often tell my friends to check out this blog but if I don’t send them a link they are often too lazy and forgetful to take a look on their own.

It’s a good idea that you reintroduce older blogs and really like how they are boxed in with the grey backgound. It really makes them pop and appealing to the eye, I would also give some consideration to having the others posts stand out this way. All in all I still enjoy visiting keep up the good work.