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    So glad you made it... Welcome to the updated Dead.net! If you've been around for a while, you should find your familiar haunts much as you left them, though some of them may be in slightly different locations.
    If you're joining us for the first time, we're delighted to see you! We invite you to just poke around and make yourselves at home.
    A few possibilities:
    -Tape trading (digital and otherwise)
    - In Search Of (tickets! stuff! music! etc.!)
    - The Ride Board (useful touring resource)
    - All About My Band (the one you're playing in)
    If you need a bit of navigational assistance, post here or send me (marye) a PM and we'll try to help!

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    Product comments gone in the store?

    Old site used to show our comments on the products; sometimes we were stupid, mostly we were helpful to each other, but now that's gone? Boo.

    EDIT: I mean, I see the forum threads on products that existed prior to the new site launch, but what about commenting on the new socks, or door mat, or that sweet wool blanket -- how do we do that?

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    11/1/79

    They were included as filler, undisclosed on the liner notes as a sort of "hidden track" -- pretty hot

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    Dick's Pick Vol. 13 Questions

    I'm listening to Dick's Pick Vol. 13 (5/6/81) for the first time in a long time and Disc 2 has the wrong track listing in the liner notes. There's a Scarlet -> Fire on the Mountain on the disc, but is't not listed. DeadBase 50 also doesn't list a Scarlet -> Mountain for this concert, but it's on my Disc 2. Can anyone explain?

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    MKAV
    would those be David Dodd's Greatest Stories posts and the ensuing discussion? Still there under Archive, in Features. Still getting posts, too.
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    mkav
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    can't find many of the old forum topics

    like song dissection/discussions, for example.
    new design is "cleaner" but much less intuitive, IMO.

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    DanielSpace
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    Old site

    Old design the best!

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    Bob D
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    Welcome back !! Just in…

    Welcome back !! Just in time for the holiday season to drop ! Glad to have this community to come visit .

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    kenny_upstairs
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    30 Days

    Well know at Midnight Pacific Time...

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    marye
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    seems to be
    a band site. We'll see.
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    marye

    SHIRKADAY is a spammer. Click on the profile once.

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About the New Site
So glad you made it... Welcome to the updated Dead.net! If you've been around for a while, you should find your familiar haunts much as you left them, though some of them may be in slightly different locations.
If you're joining us for the first time, we're delighted to see you! We invite you to just poke around and make yourselves at home.
A few possibilities:
-Tape trading (digital and otherwise)
- In Search Of (tickets! stuff! music! etc.!)
- The Ride Board (useful touring resource)
- All About My Band (the one you're playing in)
If you need a bit of navigational assistance, post here or send me (marye) a PM and we'll try to help!
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Submitted by marye on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 09:03

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Welcome back. Glad you're here.
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Submitted by marye on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 10:47

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Also we're still working on a few things that aren't quite right yet, so if you run into one of them feel free to PM me, or post, or whatever works!
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Submitted by truckineric on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 14:46

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How do I log out? I’m on an iPhone btw. Am I just old and in the way?

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Submitted by stuart walker on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 14:59

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So grateful you're here. The new format feels good, clean, lots of bright. i like:)

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Submitted by marye on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 15:38

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but if my iphone is any indication, that black bar at the top is obscuring your avatar and its nice menu with Log Out on it. I will report this to the tech folks. Anyway, glad you're here.
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Submitted by Roguedeadguy on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 15:42

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But the new site is alright with me.

It seems like its easier to get to some of the "other" sections, but not as quick to get to the latest release thread. Which is okay, it might spread out the traffic a little. Those threads could get unwieldy very quickly.

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Submitted by Roguedeadguy on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 15:45

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I just wanted to see how replys get formatted.
Thx for the welcome and support marye.

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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 16:14

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Is this thing working?
Is this thing on?
(Todd Snider)

My browser still says “Website Not Secure”

Glad some things never change.......

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Submitted by marye on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 16:25

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Since the issue I described seems to be unlikely to be affecting you: If you can see and tap/click/press/whatever your avatar up there on the upper right, it will reveal a menu that includes Logout. Also the ever-popular Recent Posts. Let me know if this works okay for you. Thanks!
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Submitted by iwuzthere on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 16:48

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Did they remove the My Shows part of my account of the new redesign? If not, where would I find them now, & if so, whyyyyy???

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Submitted by marye on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 17:58

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hit a bit of a snag in the transition. The intrepid tech team is working on it. It may be some days before this gets fixed, but we're on the case, honest. Yeah, the golden road is bumpy sometimes... Thanks for the heads up, and bear with us!
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Submitted by highmarksecurity on Sat, 10/20/2018 - 01:22

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Hello everyone, I'm new member.

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Submitted by Seth Hollander on Sat, 10/20/2018 - 21:13

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My problems

1) Last night my password wouldn't work. to log in I had to request I new one (account info was remembered by the system).
To comment today I again had to request a new password after my new password wasn't recognized.

2) Wanted to post about this from IceCreamKid:
"After posting that last comment I was sent to page 6 of this message board.
Why wasn’t I sent to the most recent post of this page?
And another...
Those navigation numbers on the bottom of the page
First......1,2,3......Last
Put a copy of those on the top of the page too so that you don’t have to scroll to the bottom of the page just to move to another page."

That experience happened to me too (at first, thought my comment had not posted, then saw the page number) and his request is one I firmly second. If you have comments appearing newest first, scrolling to the bottom the page to change pages is annoying and there should be the same page list/links available above the comments as there is below.

Hope that my password problem goes away. Hope the vast fields of white do get filled in with something interesting but not distracting or obfuscatory.

The site did seem to need an overhaul. Hopefully, this overhaul will be beneficial. Thanks for trying, GDM crew.
(And when I posted this to the DaP page, I was bounced to page 6 again...)

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Submitted by JeffSmith on Sun, 10/21/2018 - 09:49

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Thanks Mary for all of your patience, help and therapy!!! I know websites must stay current with trends and technology. I like the general direction the new site seems to be heading in, but will wait for pats-on-the-back at this point. Here are some things I've noticed.

[Viewing Via Chrome (Version 69.0.3497.100) on MacBook Pro/High Sierra v. 10.13.6]

GENERAL
1. Dim the background or add cool, subtle background so the new site does not continue causing headaches and/or blindness.
2. Seems like every time you do anything, you have to re-take the reCaptcha exam. Is this necessary?

MESSAGES
1. The personal message board takes a very long time to download compared to other locations on the new site..
2. There is no “PM member” button with poster’s avatar/comment, or on their member info page, or anywhere else I can see.
3. Doesn't look like you can "Preview" messages created on .../private_messages/ before sending. I'm only seeing a "Save" button.
4. PM’s seem to get posted to the wrong “Subject” thread, even if you re-enter the intended subject in the subject field. (Maybe they go to the first thread between the participants… or maybe by alphabet?)

COMMENTS PAGES
1. Indicate newly posted comments with “NEW”. This was a very helpful feature in the website’s previous incarnation.
2. Allow more comments per page - previously you could select how many comments were displayed per page.

Thanks again for the therapy!

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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Sun, 10/21/2018 - 10:11

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The drop down menu next to the avatar does not appear when using an iPad.

Thanks for spending your Sunday doing IT work.

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Submitted by Seth Hollander on Mon, 10/22/2018 - 08:08

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For the third day my password needed resetting to get me in.
The request email to reset password system works GREAT. Sends message instantly and the process is painless, but annoying. All in all, this is NOT a terrible problem for me and quite manageable.
Am logging in via a macBook, OS10.6.8 using FireFox 48.02. Did not have this problem before the site upgrade.

My avatar pic and account info all survived the upgrade fine and the password reset system leads me straight to my account. It is just the log in password recognition that has gone hinky.
My password choices are registered as "weak" by the evaluation system, but the "changes (are) recorded".

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Submitted by SPACEBROTHER on Mon, 10/22/2018 - 15:19

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Looks like my account is intact. Are discussions about new product on the product order pages now gone permanantly?

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Submitted by mkav on Mon, 10/22/2018 - 17:50

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I've been poking around...in the show archive section, if you key in a year, the screen returns with shows from that year. but if you try to page forward in the event the show you're looking for is not on the first page, the screen reverts back to 1965 shows. It didn't happen each time, but something like 4 out of 5 times this happened.
Searching by venue didn't seem to work at all.

EDIT: seems to be corrected now...thanks

also...your GOTCHA is incredibly aggressive

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Submitted by marye on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 09:54

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They are all here: https://www.dead.net/forum/72336 There's actually a lot of good thought behind this, because it was often the case that something would sell out or otherwise become unavailable, but wait, there's this huge conversation attached, we can't just remove it... This way, we avoid causing further distress to people trying to order something that's been out of stock since 2011, and the conversations are in a nice safe place where folks can go right on conversing. So please do!
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Submitted by deadhead102 on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 13:48

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I'm with those that say the new site sucks! I definitely don't like the white background, and in my opinion the text is too small. Or are you throwing us older Heads in the trash?

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Submitted by marye on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 13:54

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This is definitely not a one-size-fits-all issue, but I (being old) find it helpful to use the Zoom In or equivalent in the browser's View menu, which makes things bigger. And also reduces whitespace. fwiw.
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Submitted by acme401 on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 17:16

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The old site was tired. :)

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Submitted by Nugent7453 on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 17:39

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Every time I try and login it doesn't work. I have to reset my password every time. I have to go into the link in my email. Why won't it remember my password? I've tried on my phone and computer. It does the same thing on both.

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Submitted by Bear549 on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 19:39

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Can you listen to archived Grateful Dead Hours?

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Submitted by kevinbrandon on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 20:56

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Hi Marye...

Where do you find a Dave's pick where you can go to that particular pick and see Dave's chat, Music samples, and peoples comments. Then you click on it in the store and it just says sold out.

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Submitted by Patrick K. on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 21:33

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Great to see you back online. Looking forward to exploring the new features and links. Much love and peace to all of you at Dead.net. Keep the fires burning. - PK

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Submitted by Anagram on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 23:03

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Will have to work on figuring out how to navigate! Nice to be here though and know the community is still alive and well.

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Submitted by wilfredtjones on Wed, 10/24/2018 - 02:12

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What's the deal? I would like to change mine from the one I've been "assigned". Help!

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Submitted by marye on Wed, 10/24/2018 - 10:47

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The discussion threads from the product pages moved here: http://www.dead.net/forum/72336 The reasoning behind this was finding a way to keep the discussions available and live even after the product was sold out. I'll see what I can find out about the Dave clips etc.
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Submitted by wilfredtjones on Fri, 10/26/2018 - 01:55

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The search function does not work and you have to go page by page through all the years beginning with the first show to get to the one you're looking for. Is this still being worked on?

Please bring 'Shows by Year' back! And on another note, please up the number of comments viewable per page. 9-12 comments at a time just does not cut it when some threads are populated with hundreds of comments.

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Submitted by marye on Fri, 10/26/2018 - 09:45

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Thanks, this is quite useful. While we are working on this, you may find it useful to search by venue alone, because I've had good success with that.
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Submitted by hornsby on Sat, 10/27/2018 - 00:29

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4 days and counting....

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Submitted by deadhead616 on Tue, 10/30/2018 - 09:59

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Hoping we will see 30 Days of Dead 2018? Any chance we can get to the 2017 archive too?? I appear to have lost most of 2017 in a computer mishap...thanks!