I would predict that each month of the rest of this year is going to be worse than the one before.

Chrysler might just as well skip a model year. It’ll take them that long to clear out the ’08s.

Good ide Johnny… maybe if you write to Cerberus and tell them that they’ll make you a board member.

The mental midgets that trawl this blog will definitely post something that will blame George Bush for this.

…board member or bored member.

“Gas has resided from its record high of $4.11 ”
LLN: I think you meant “receded.”

@brassmonkey,
And politicians can do no wrong?

In Canada the prime minister has lost control of the House of Commons and wants to dissolve it by calling for general elections this October. On the table is a 15 billion dollar “carbon tax” designed to extort the last bit of income left unmolested and use it for useless, low-ROI projects that will be a waste of time. It’s times like these that I get political. I could ****ing kill right now.

lol
the briish are leading the way in ass-hole-ry when it comes to car taxing

car companies have the tech to roll out their big hybrids within a few months, they dont because its not profittable!

so its their fault
consumers want, consumers buy, consumers dont wait!

“The mental midgets that trawl this blog will definitely post something that will blame George Bush for this”

Or the real mental midgets will try to defend his BS policies…

i definitely blame george bush for this.

I like the new look of leftlanenews. Keep up the great work…..

Indeed. Awesome work with the new website, LLN!

agreed, good job, i always thought you guys could do a lot more with the site

Pros:
Name before comment
Layout
Photo Gallery
Tabs all over the place

Cons:
No message count on threads in main page
Very slow
Main page tends to load poorly
“Top Stories” looks as if it hasn’t been updated since last November

Other suggestions the new site could use:
RSS feed with Subscription ability
Video reviews

I like how the font for names of people who have commented is as large as the story titles. Apparently, LLN wants to be sure we know who wrote what.

This is weird. I have fill out a form everytime I post?

Interesting

So if I don’t type in my name, my IP address is detected and matched to a registered name. Saves time I guess

“car companies have the tech to roll out their big hybrids within a few months, they dont because its not profittable!

so its their fault”

It’s not wholly their fault that it’s so expensive. Hybrids are profitable for most automanufacturers. Why would they build something that isn’t profitable? If they were forced to for emissions… that wouldn’t be capitalism. Hybrids isn’t what people want in the first place anyways.

interesting design…

Deanster, I’m sure it uses your login credentials from the cookie rather than your IP address. I’ve yet to fill out the little “form”.

I didn’t think LLN could possibly load slower than it did before…

Weird new comment form…

No updates since more than two days…what’s happening LNN guys!?

sorry for the double post, but i meant “LLN”

beatusmongous - Hows the little form now?

Nice ideas for the new site, but it’s slow, there are Javascript errors on every page, all caps titles are dumb, and the RSS feeds are gone? Uh, I was using those.

Oh well. Hope it’s not finished.

Much better, Mike. The good thing is that there won’t be any impostors this way.

You know, it would be really cool if you guys could do a widget or an app for the iPhone, too.

Archcommus, you can still get the RSS subscription from MacNN.com. I didn’t know about that earlier.

You know, an edit feature for posts might be kind of nice, too.

iphone application is still under development.

RSS feeds are still there which can be accessed from http://www.leftlanenews.com/wp-rss2.php

The loading of a page lags, which is quite annoying (yeah, you can say 2 seconds should not annoy, but it does) and the front page needs a post count so people know whether they should waste tehir time clicking and waiting for the page to load.

Just for fun I’m gonna test html code:

italics
bold

Odd. I didn’t post that last part with the HTML twice. I still have the post in my buffer and it is not there twice. Oh well - a least html works, but I dare say it will be more difficult to navigate the site due to the laggy pageloads and the fact that you click blindly here, now.

Looks like many suggestions are getting taken care of. Good job. One more would be to make the “Next Page” and “Previous Page” buttons a bit clearer and better placed. Perhaps the very top and the very bottom would be good. Where the “Next Page” button is now is a bit hard to find.

I don’t like this nu layout. So mucj so that i might just not cum here anymore

sales R in the toilet 4 every1

Honda & Nissan R making hi-mpg cars

George W. Bush is the worst [president, but he’s only indirectly 2 blame 4 this

Well, Ktulu, I for one would hate to see you go. Personally, I get a kick out of your jumbled posts and your “no frills” approach.

Well Toyota are goign to be the better of all because they aperently have the most fuel effictient cars on earth…and also the most pointless and ugly cars ever made..

KTULU…learn how to spell and type properly
i hat t wn ppl tlk lyk dis