NEVER FORGET

as an aside regarding the redesign, it looks pretty spiffy. the backdrops look fucking amazing. as far as casual visitors go, i think it's pretty much a solid improvement, NG, unlike most sites (facebook i'm looking at YOU), usually delivers on redesigns, and if they tweak some things it should be great. while being aware that it's a work in progress, some things they simply must fix are:

- option to turn sound off on portal submissions page. i have it off autoplay for a reason - i don't want the play me button to be making a racket in the background, in fact i don't want ANY audio playing in my browser that i haven't started myself, it's one of the biggest turnoffs i have when browsing sites and if i showed up as a new user today i'd probably just go somewhere else
- restore the notification that lets you know that you've voted on your 5 per day
- add a drop-down forum picker when looking at a post. pretty sure it was there before, it's not now. if it wasn't, just add it
- still not deleted games2rule's account, and all the other similar garbage submitters
- make the link, bold buttons that i'd use when posting here actually work in chrome

not sure that i like the idea of the classic portal view now being somewhat hidden, and the move away from flash and towards videos in general. there's already quite a few people that are just resubmitting stuff that they uploaded to youtube and bitching about quality issues - why try to merge things? stay unique, don't just try to allow anything in.

edit - thing is ridiculously slow in iOS nowadays as well