Comments on: August shaping up to be worse than July for new car sales

By: VWgrouP

VWgrouP — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:30:20 +0000

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

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:21:36 +0000

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.

By: ktulu

ktulu — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:10:14 +0000

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

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:00:39 +0000

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.

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:04:27 +0000

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.

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:57:05 +0000

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

By: mikemacnn

mikemacnn — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:58:24 +0000

iphone application is still under development.

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

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:48:08 +0000

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.

By: archcommus

archcommus — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:11:05 +0000

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.

By: mikemacnn

mikemacnn — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:35:16 +0000

beatusmongous – Hows the little form now?

By: darmanos

darmanos — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:22:39 +0000

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

By: darmanos

darmanos — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:21:13 +0000

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

By: S1L1SC

S1L1SC — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:51:36 +0000

Weird new comment form…

By: 02WRXPSM

02WRXPSM — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:50:30 +0000

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

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:00:50 +0000

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”.

By: olds307

olds307 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:56:19 +0000

interesting design…

By: jayjc08

jayjc08 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:31:05 +0000

“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.

By: DeansterTJ

DeansterTJ — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:16:48 +0000

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

By: DeansterTJ

DeansterTJ — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:16:12 +0000

Interesting

By: DeansterTJ

DeansterTJ — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:15:49 +0000

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

By: tzu13

tzu13 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:52:54 +0000

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.

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:49:26 +0000

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

By: A True Gear Head

A True Gear Head — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:01:50 +0000

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

By: 1c3d0g

1c3d0g — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:16:09 +0000

Indeed. Awesome work with the new website, LLN!

By: Fleming in Tennessee

Fleming in Tennessee — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:14:01 +0000

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

By: maxcar

maxcar — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:31:46 +0000

i definitely blame george bush for this.

By: injunraiv

injunraiv — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:17:31 +0000

“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…

By: peacemf

peacemf — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:12:25 +0000

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!

By: DeansterTJ

DeansterTJ — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:32:41 +0000

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.

By: rds130

rds130 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:40:08 +0000

@brassmonkey,
And politicians can do no wrong?

By: beemerdude

beemerdude — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:57:01 +0000

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

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:13:02 +0000

…board member or bored member.

By: brassmonkey

brassmonkey — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:08:55 +0000

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

By: RaineMan

RaineMan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:02:55 +0000

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

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:00:26 +0000

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