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$$$ A quick programming note: tonight, in order to speed up things on the back end of his here site, they’re going to be moving something things over that affect comments. Not really though. All of the comments will remain in the database, all of the old comments will get imported over to Disqus (the new system). Those of you with regular handles will have to re-register, which shouldn’t be a cause for bitching because it’s NBD (and this will also eliminate the theft of handles, which some have griped about).
If you don’t want an ID and would prefer the default “anonymous,” you can just throw in any old fake email address when you get the first prompt upon commenting (it can be anything, as long as it’s formed like an email address, i.e. acertainsomeonescollie@petco.com will work). Alternatively, you have the option of logging in via Facebook and Twitter and while I doubt you will it would certainly add an interesting element to things.
I wholeheartedly object to the site changes. And I’m hungry, dammit!
Ugh.
Dibs on minettabrawler@sovietrussia.com.
Thank god. This site has been slower than old people fucking.
Anal_yst imposter – thoughts?
Good news on the website update. What are you going to do with the old TRS-80?
wait, wait, wait. Are you calling the bottom on dealbreaker IT issues? Anyone at GS want to build me an instrument to short bess’s position?
Yesssss! Finally…
They need to run more Bonobos ads to pay for the upgrade.
-Guy who wears PIK Toggles
Beth -
The site is seriously screwed up again. I just thought you should know. And if your honey pot didn’t smell like cotton candy, I wouldn’t have bothered.
Fondly,
Cliff
no comment numbering? where am i?
Bess, this place has had terrible performance ever since your IT monkeys decided to start changing around the comment system. This is a blog, not some HFT system. Get someone competent to get things in order because I really really don’t want to read Business Insider.
- Another IT monkey
Super genius. This comment is totally for the sake of not getting handle-jacked.
And who needs comment numbers any longer – the comments are now threaded.
I hate Disqus. But I hate shitty infrastructure more, and BM’s shitty infrastructure isn’t worthy of Bess’s work.
@like so?
in soviet russia, comments count you!
Stop whining, you lousy bitches. But seriously, no numbering?
Test
Test #2
Where do I put my website
Finally!
In a word: broken
I dunno how I feel about this… it’s starting to look a little more gawker-ish?
This site has gone seriously down hill since I decided to leave.
ZK
I am the new killing it
wow i am trying the new comment system
test
exactly how does one re-register???
Gal who is a luddite today
ugh
where am i?
Disqus is the new DiqSuqs
Yea, #s would be good – like fo real.
ugh!
Please tell me this hasn’t wiped all of the archived comments…
Agreed, Naked.
This aggression will not stand man!
This is balls
Will the real Anal_yst please stand up
@13 ftw!
@23/pmco – Top right of the comments, use the little ‘disqus’ button.
…having some trouble with the ‘reply’ function, which, in the parlance of our times, is nbd.
-Guy who wants #s
This is worse than getting Ping Jianged in the arse by a 1000 white board markers.
NBD = lazy IT
I feel like my grandmother did when I was explaining to her how to use email. New things are scary!!!!
Other than that, I have no concerns.
I feel so cold and alone. Where am I?
…. I’ll tell you what terrifies Bill Gates, this new commenting system. It sucks dck. We don’t need all this bullshit “liking”comments and all of that nonsense. Just give us the old archaic numbered comments that work reasonably well. I don’t need this fcking facebook-esque update.
Still love your work though Bess.
-Guy who hates change.
I like your hate. +1….Heart Click!
I will punch myself in the face now because thats what Disqsucks makes me do.
Is it just me or does anyone else miss the old system that provided us with double and triple posts at time?
-Guy who thinks really stupid things are funny
Diq Toggles are the new killing it.
DISQUSSR
No numbers; comments not all on same page; Anal_yst still here.
Other than that, I have no concerns.
@41/NS – Hell yea, or when you’d have to open another browser before closing the first – that’s when posting required some real aptitude and technical savvy, now anyone can do it.
-Guy who identifies with Eminem’s “Going through changes”
Cuban?
No Dutch-Irish, my father was from Wales
Cuban?
No Dutch-Irish, my father was from Wales
The IT folks at Dealbreaker suck Donkey Dicks. And now this site really sucks. Who planned this layout? Helen Keller? And it performs as well as a coked out hooker.
Other than that, I have no concerns
OK – so now what?
So now what?
We heal the world, make it a better place. For you and for me and the entire human race. There are hedge funds dying, if you care enough for the living we make Wall Street a better place for you and for me.
You have no idea.
There was once a time when Copy & Paste did not exist.
Now any amateur can post.
Mr. Disqus, please meet me at Minetta’s. I will be the one wearing a freshly pressed pair of Diq Toggles. Don’t worry, I will know who you are and will summarily punch you in the face to alert you to my awareness.
where is the “dislike” button for all of Anal_ysts comments?
So… I got “1 like” for, what, just signing up? Is disqus primarily used by 13 year old attention-starved girls or something?
Posts about numbers and change are boring.
– Guy who doesn’t see the irony in his post
@2:57- There weren’t always numbers, just sayin’.
@42 Nice.
It’s already past 10:00. Shouldn’t Bess be posting the Opening Bell and back-dating it to 9:30?
What?
What?
What?
This blows.
Suq it.
@32/CL: thx dude; now magic
Me thinks Disqus became conscious, took over the site and is not letting Bess post.
-Another retarded post by Anal_yst
why do i feel like this is anal_ysts fault
Bess says “all of the old comments will get imported over to Disqus” What’s the under/over on (a) how long that will take and (2) accuracy?
Gal who will be really upset if Anal_yst’s comments are gone
If Skynet is built on the Disqus platform, I don’t think we have anything to worry about. It’ll crap out well before Judgment Day.
I like this now because someone likes me…they really like me
Gal who looks a lot like Sally Field (when she was much younger)
I feel scared and alone
- Guy who does not take well to change
Transitions are smooth with a hand up your skirt.
Amazing. This POS site actually makes BI seem hip and useful.
Please ban me as I don’t wish to waste my time posting future disparaging comments. Oh, by the way, will all the Beth syncophants please rise up and assault me with their lively ripostes? Thanks in advance.
None of the archived comments are gone, but as there are hundreds of thousands of them they take a little while to import. They should all be here by tomorrow AM.
Thx Bess. You are the besst (see what I did there?)
this is an abomination
@75 FTW!
Bess, How will now know who is winning? There is no excel formula to calculate this and I WILL NOT count down from the top of the page!
Can we still post as anonymous?
Oh no…people can flag comments? Well, there goes about %75 of all the comments worth reading…
It looks different. Other than that, I have no concerns.
No, we’re disabling the flagging feature.
Bess, you’ve thought of everything. I was confused at first, but other than that, I have no concerns.
I’m so confused
Where are the comment #s?
how are you people finding out the comment number?
Yes, where are the comment numbers? I thought that was one of the points of disqus’s integration?