Uhm… Hello? World?

I guess this is the first post here now, woooohooo. As you can see I’m making a lot of changes on epalla. The most noticeable being the giant blue rainbow on the right side of the site (and the new template in general). This is still very much a work in progress; hopefully I’ll have it up and running beautifully by the end of the weekend.

As you can see there are a few big things missing. It is my experience that most of you who still visit the site occasionally do so for the links in the digg widget. It’s gone right now but never fear! It will be back, I think. In the meantime if you can’t live without those digg links (hah) you can get to them here.

To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of digg anymore. Most of the same stuff comes on reddit earlier and the discussion has some real substance to go with the one-liners. I don’t know if I’ll ever stop going to digg completely, but don’t be surprised if it’s a reddit widget this time around and not a digg one.

There’s also the little matter of all the old content and the old accounts, and I’m just gonna throw it out there – it’s gone. You’ll all have to take a few minutes to reregister if you want to post comments. I’ll probably let those of you who could post before continue to do so here if you want to. I could have tried to save it to port all the music posts and discussion over to the new system but I’m just not particularly concerned. It was mostly album posts anyway, none of which I really feel the need to keep.

You may also notice the little wordpress blurb at the bottom. Yes, I’ve started using canned blogging software. The SMF Forum integration was pretty cool, but why reinvent the wheel? I’ve been too cool to make epalla a real blog for a long time and for no reason. From now on you bitches will get very blog-like updates about trivial shit in my life. And you’ll like it.