Comments for Tales of MU

Comment on 343: Dee’s Dilemma by Dave

Dave — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:08:14 +0000

I suspect the new design at MoarMU is a work in progress. If so, some of the design/code errors and the absence of comments links are probably temporary.

It’s also possible that some of the changes are unintentional. MU is running on WordPress 2.5.1, whereas MoarMU’s code says WordPress 2.7 - looks like AE is updating to the current version. It may be that 2.7 needs template changes that have not been done yet. And if comments are provided by a plug-in, those must be deactivated before upgrading (say the instructions I’ve just Googled), so maybe AE hasn’t installed the 2.7 version of that plug-in yet.

AE, if you’re reading this - your code has a lot of quotes missing - e.g. href=whatever when it should be href=”whatever” and width=80% instead of width=”80%”. Also, in Firefox the twitter panel is too wide for the left column (it’s more or less OK in IE and Google Chrome).

Comment on 343: Dee’s Dilemma by Uke

Uke — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:25:40 +0000

Gotta say, I’m with The Other Dave on this one. The MoarMU page and the AE blog page look bad. Maybe it’s just the jarring change but I don’t like it. Also, the navigation on both are broken. Badly. You cannot easily navigate between MoarMU stories (no next/previous links to be found.) And neither it nor the AE blog link back to ToMU, let alone any of the other AE works. I can understand works in progress, but those are some major design flaws.

Comment on 343: Dee’s Dilemma by Cupcake Crusader

Cupcake Crusader — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:09:59 +0000

Don’t mean to sound angry or anything but I also really don’t like the no comments as well as the new layout of More MU.

Comment on 343: Dee’s Dilemma by Louise

Louise — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:39:59 +0000

“Timely updates” coming after Monday? After past assurances from AE that ultimately came to nothing, I’ll believe it when I see it.

Comment on 343: Dee’s Dilemma by Krista

Krista — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:30:25 +0000

Blech, I dunno what’s happened to MoarMU, but I DO know that I really don’t like it. The normal MU format is way better, and clearer, and more legible. And personally, for lazy ass people like me, and The Other Dave it seems, I’d rather have the comments at the end of the chapter, coz going to a forum is just too much effort! I htink the conversation is also better when it’s connected to the story it refers to.

Comment on 343: Dee’s Dilemma by The Other Dave

The Other Dave — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:26:10 +0000

Mm. Granted, I don’t use the comments that much, mostly cuz I just don’t have that much time. But I’m sure as heck not going to use the forums… sorry. Too much work for a lazy ass with limited free time such as myself. I hope that doesn’t happen to Original Flavor MU, too…

Comment on Bonus Story: Diary of a Golem Girl by Caffe

Caffe — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:53:21 +0000

Y’know… speaking as a Nice Guy, a lot of the folk here need to realize that there’s a distinction between someone who -is- a Nice Guy, and someone who is an asshole who only believes that they are a nice guy.

Look, I lay claim to the title because while I am, bluntly, a virgin, and have a hell of a time talking to women that I’m actually attracted to… I’m working on it. I haven’t made the mistake of idolizing a woman since high school, and the fact that they’re people is foremost on my mind.

Believe me. When I’m attracted to someone, it’s not that I choose people out of my league because normal girls aren’t ‘good enough for me’. If anything, I hold back because I worry I’m not good enough for them. If that helps all of you to classify me based on what’s been put up in this comment thread, so much the better.

That said, I think I should bring to light one important qualifier in this discussion.

A real Nice Guy considers his penis a privilege, not a right. He recognizes that it’s something that can be abused… and he believes that if someone abuses theirs, they don’t deserve to keep it.

Comment on 343: Dee’s Dilemma by Les

Les — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:16:51 +0000

@CeeN

I think what people (including myself) are finding so objectionable about what Dee is saying isn’t that Steff needs help, or that Steff’s gender-identity and the trials and travails of dealing with same may be a significant factor of why she needs help (I personally think spending a lot of time among her father’s people being a pathetic example of an elf instead of being raised among her mother’s people being an awesome example of a human may have had a big part in her Issues as well.)

The bug crawling up everyone’s butt is the way Dee has worded it, combined with past conversations with her about her culture’s views on ‘halfkind’, making it sound as if Dee considers Steff and others like her to be delicate hot-house flowers incapable of living out among ‘normal’ society and should be kept safe and pretty in their little glass cases and taken out only to be admired and ‘pollinated’.

Comment on 343: Dee’s Dilemma by Quin

Quin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:00:43 +0000

The forums have always been in the link list with the other stories, but just incase that gets moved or disappeared it can be found at http://www.alexandraerin.com/forum/

And for The Other Dave, I believe MoarMU has been on Wordpress for quite a while. It has been for as long as I’ve been reading, anyways. It looks like AE is trying some new themes, or just moving things around. Why? I dunno. Looks like the it will keep the top ads and columns in view all the time, which might be better for revenue and for navigation. Or she might just have wanted something different.

The no comments thing is going to take some getting used to. I lurked at the old forum before they migrated to the new ones. I just liked having the conversation tied directly to the stories. But there is a reason for the change, I’m sure.

Comment on 343: Dee’s Dilemma by phg

phg — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:04:21 +0000

Uh, I don’t know any other way to get to you other than here. You have no hyperlinks I can find to someplace else, and the “Discuss xxx on the Forum” link is broken and your blog page is so farkled up it gets you no place.

Do you have some way to actually get to the Forum?