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    Dave's Picks Volume 28: Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 6/17/76

    This year's Dave's Picks series comes to a close just as the band's getting back together again in '76. By the time the Grateful Dead hit New Jersey’s Capitol Theatre - for the very first time - on 6/17/76, they were buzzing from their reunion, armed with new and revived material, the Rhythm Devils reformed with the mischievous Mickey Hart once again behind the kit. They'd skived off the unwieldy Wall of Sound and scaled back the venues from cavernous arenas to intimate theatres. Quite the treat!

    During the first set, the Dead's playing was nuanced ("Cold Rain And Snow"), detailed ("Looks Like Rain"), and intricate ("The Music Never Stopped"); the singing struck softly ("Row Jimmy") and raised hairs ("Ship Of Fools"). But it’s the big barreling energy of the second set you’ll want to brace yourself for, replete with a disco'd "Dancing In The Streets," a low-down funky “Help”>”Slip”>”Franklin's” and a wind 'em up to wind down "Let It Grow">"Wharf Rat">"Around and Around." Can you keep up? There's only one way to find out.

    This complete show, balanced out with a couple of bonus tracks from 6/23/76 and 6/28/76, was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

    Dave's Picks Volume 28 is limited to 18,000 individually-numbered copies*.

    Grab a copy before they're gone, gone, gone.

    *Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

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  • Dennis
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    Dave Rock and Jim in MD - FYI I have a good chunk of Phish and sent the both of you an email containing every Phish show ever done. This totaled up to 5000 gig, so if you think your email is hung, it's just downloading my file. Should only take 6 or 7 days. Enjoy

    Love My Girl - sent PM

    Last 5 is always odd here. I work in a head shop and we play music all day. I work with mostly kids so I hear a lot of new. Currently I'm working on a massive collection of Harry 'Scrappy' Lambert, this guy seem to sing with every big band of the 20's and 30's. So I sucking in hits like, "walkin' my baby back home", "am I blue" and who could forget, "run up the steps, knock on the door, shout hallelujah, cause I'm home"! As Greg Kihn would sing many years later, "they just don't write them like that anymore".

    Been listening to a band my buddy sent me called "Na'Bodach",,,,,, new celtic(?)

    The jorma and jack album released by Owsley is nice.

    The Dylan live 62-66 rare performances is nice and that last Dylan bootleg collection (more blood, more tracks) very nice.

    I picked up a Elvis live at MSG 1972,,, what can you say,,, elvis,,,, I don't think elvis music has aged well.

    In the vein of old 78 rpm stuff, bought a collection of Buddy Clark (more just for the song "Linda", have this in my 78 collection).

    Finally, who is this "Nancyboy"? I've searched all the posting and can not find that user. :-)

    Edit - have a chuckle over this one.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8dfZ3N_c2E

  • MDJim
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    Valid points. Lets not let things get too barbed and personal though. ..which is a drag to read at least to me. I'm not defending Unkle, you can see these things coming, point then counter point and on and on. But it seemed the tone changed more than it had to to get ones point across.

    It's likely we share more in common than what sets us apart, we should remember this. ..at least I believe it to be true. Comments like these are a sign of the times I guess.. but I do agree with Charlie that making posts that put people down, which was present in both aforementioned posts, does little to move things along it just brings it all to a screeching halt.

    It accomplishes nothing.

  • Charlie3
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    Well, since we're talking about it here's my 2cents.

    It appears to me that Unkle Sam mixed in a little trolling in his post and took the opportunity to let us know he was against the wall, and also to let us know that anyone who didn't share his view is a rube, and just the sort of person who would launch a personal attack on him based on his view. This seems like a pre-emptive strike by Unkle Sam against anyone who doesn't share his view and certainly seems like it could be construed as an "attack" on those who don't share his view. After all, he is stating that the people who don't share his view are rubes, hardly a positive description, and that they are the type of person who would attack him for his views. Is it irony that he is at the same time attacking and denigrating those with views different from his own?

    Butch appears to have gotten annoyed by Unkle's trolling and called him out on his pretty regular political bitching, usually couched in terms of letting us all know how much he dislikes the president and his policies. It seems to me that this was a predictable response to Unkle's comment, and pretty much what happens everytime someone brings up politics on these threads. The only question was who would respond.

    If you want to make snide comments, that's cool, some are even amusing, but don't be surprised when your snark leads to more of the same in response. Unkle referred to a whole swath of people as rubes and Butch referred to Unkle as a big baby whining about his political views on deadnet. Both engaged in behavior that could be considered an attack on others, neither is really something to get worked up about, and each really is about expressing negative opinions, which after all, are still opinions. If you aren't free to express a negative opinion, you don't really have free expression. The price of free expression is listening to the free expression of others, even when you disagree.

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    I think you are confusing having the right to express your opinion with having the right to attack other posters. Maybe it would be better if you followed your own advice and stuck to The Dead.

  • wilfredtjones
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    There are politics threads on Dead.net. It's just nobody ever sleuths them out, or posts in them hardly.

    The DaP and Box Set threads tend to become catch-alls. And therein lies the peril.

    http://www.dead.net/forum/long-strange-and-trippy-still-more-current-ev…

  • Vguy72
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    "I'm going back home....

    ....that's what I'm gonna do." Truer words haven't been spoken. You win again.
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    no politics please. I come here partially to get away from that. Pretty please?

  • Butch
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    Nice to Hear More Moaning and Groaning from Uncle Sam

    I'm glad I'm free to express my opinion, because I'm tired of your sniveling about TRUMP. Go find a political message board to piss and moan on. You sound like an big baby. This board's for the Dead. I feel a little bit sorry for you, because you're obviously a miserable old sod.

    Dave's Picks 18. I love the mix on this. Jerry sounds so loud and isolated, and so does Keith. I don't listen to a lot of 1976, mainly because I just haven't gotten around to it yet being a fairly new deadhead. And I figured it was 1977 without the Terrapin Station songs. And Fire on the Mountain I guess that was from Shakedown Street. But I now hear a whole lot of piano that you don't get in 77 and 78 oh, and I like it. Going Down The Road Feeling Bad, Not Fade Away, and One More Saturday Night future a lot of great piano work from Mr. Godchaux. Those are songs that I usually don't get too into, but they really hit the spot here. Dave's 18.

  • icecrmcnkd
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    Last 5 - vinyl

    4-25-77 (4 LP’s)
    5-21-74 Playing in the Band (1 LP)

  • icecrmcnkd
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    Mac Mini (new 2018 version)
    Mac Mini
    Mac Mini
    MacBook Pro (previous model with 1TB spinning HD and DVD burner)
    iMac (think it’s a 2011/12)

    Use all of them. Often try to get 3 of them running at the same time to increase my productivity. One processing audio, another processing video, another burning discs. Yeah I still burn discs, CD’s, DVD’s, BluRays. Have 3 BluRay burners, ran 2 last night and burned 12 BD-R’s while watching hockey. My audio collection is in multiple formats - AIFF, ALAC, FLAC, AAC-320 kbps (my car will only play lossy mp3’s from a USB flash drive), so having several computers allows me to get a lot of file converting done.

    Also still have 2 white plastic MacBooks. One I bought used several years ago and just use it to collect torrents. FYI, there are new Charlie Miller’s being added to etree regularly.

    Have been using PC’s at work for years, even used to use a Sun Workstation for some things. For that reason I do have a Dell laptop at home, but rarely use it. Stupid thing can’t run Windows 10 because, and this is according to Dell Customer Support - it needs a driver that Dell has no intention of creating. Because they want me to buy a new Dell. Which I’m not going to do.

    I use iTunes to store audio files on a HD, but I do not ever use iTunes on my iPhone or iPad. I do have a 60 GB iPod classic but generally only use that on airplanes.
    For a music player I have an iBasso DX80: dual micro SDXC slots, up to 1TB each, plays lossless formats, and has an optical out port for connecting to the stereo. It’s awesome.

    Phish? I stopped seeing them in 1998. Periodically will watch some of the modern stuff on YouTube which confirms that I don’t need to try to get back into them. The ‘new stuff’ doesn’t do it for me, but I do like to watch them play the songs from the early 90’s.
    Slave to the Traffic Light is my favorite Phish song. There’s a good version of it on Live Phish.

  • MDJim
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    I have tried for years to get into Phish.. every now and then I see a spark. I really liked their Halloween shows when they played, for example.. the whole White Album, Quadrophenia and the like.

    A couple weeks ago in the truck I changed the channel to Jam On (must have been playing One More Saturday Night or something on the GD Channel) and arrived in the middle a really interesting instrumental piece. Hard driving and hypnotic, compelling.. I think they have the chops. I will continue to keep an open mind.

    I enjoy most topics discussed here.. so long as things don't dissolve into negativity or personal attacks. I guess some of the same old subjects get recycled way too easy too, but in part the music drives some of this. If it's light hearted, informative, related to music or loosely related to the music, times and life of the GD.. Life and times can carry subjects a bit, but usually that's ok. Some of the people here and have insights into topics that are interesting to me. Mostly a fun group. Fun is good.

    I like Apple products, but recently started switching away and am happier (and wealthier) for it. Sorry to anyone who works there or is very happy with their machines. I got pissed that they weren't allowing memory chips in their phones so we could swap out music and add a bigger library without deleting and replacing.. plus, sorry.. but they have become overpriced and have always been a little proprietary for my liking. As for PCs.. Macs are fine and excel in media, no question about that.. but are overpriced and limited. For me, it's harder to do database work in a Mac and I plug into systems and use software that Macs just don't do so well at or cannot do at all. HP's and Dells have given me problems over the years.. hard drive and motherboard crashes in young machines, etc. (again, sorry for anyone that works there or is happy w/ their machines), I'm done with them.. I love my Thinkpad X1 Carbon.. 1TB internal flash-type storage, lightning fast, semi-spill proof and ok with very hot and very cold temps.. I beat the crap out of my machines and this one has lasted much longer than expected. Oh.. super light and thin too. Sorry mac uses but when it comes to crunching large amounts of data.. they suck and yes.. I have tried. Fine for spreadsheets, word, music, photo's and movies but not so good for interconnectivity and kicking ass on large datasets. No one winner, no wrong answers, more personal preference and no, Macs simply are not better at everything than PCs.

    I just hope my thinkpads aren't working as a spybots for the Chinese government!

    Excited for the Swing, curious about the box set.. Plangent for all I say! Happy New Year..

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Dave's Picks Volume 28: Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 6/17/76

This year's Dave's Picks series comes to a close just as the band's getting back together again in '76. By the time the Grateful Dead hit New Jersey’s Capitol Theatre - for the very first time - on 6/17/76, they were buzzing from their reunion, armed with new and revived material, the Rhythm Devils reformed with the mischievous Mickey Hart once again behind the kit. They'd skived off the unwieldy Wall of Sound and scaled back the venues from cavernous arenas to intimate theatres. Quite the treat!

During the first set, the Dead's playing was nuanced ("Cold Rain And Snow"), detailed ("Looks Like Rain"), and intricate ("The Music Never Stopped"); the singing struck softly ("Row Jimmy") and raised hairs ("Ship Of Fools"). But it’s the big barreling energy of the second set you’ll want to brace yourself for, replete with a disco'd "Dancing In The Streets," a low-down funky “Help”>”Slip”>”Franklin's” and a wind 'em up to wind down "Let It Grow">"Wharf Rat">"Around and Around." Can you keep up? There's only one way to find out.

This complete show, balanced out with a couple of bonus tracks from 6/23/76 and 6/28/76, was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

Dave's Picks Volume 28 is limited to 18,000 individually-numbered copies*.

Grab a copy before they're gone, gone, gone.

*Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

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30 Days of Dead again, or at least I hope so. I haven't heard anything about it on here yet (service has not been just exactly normal lately), but I can't remember if there was any advance warning in previous years. That, together with the impending 2019 subscription launch and all the information that comes with that - and of course Dave's Picks 28 arriving. Its gonna be a busy month ahead.

Just finished listening to the awesome "AndOarAgain", the new 3CD reissue of Alexander Spence's legendary 1968 "Oar" album. As has been said before, the reissue of the year, with "Anthem of the sun" coming a close second. 😀

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Marye~
I don’t know if you saw my post a couple days ago, but you cannot hover on a smart phone (iPhone 8+ / iOS 12). Besides that, clicking on the avatar photo or drop-down arrow is not working on a smart phone, either.

Background color ~
The two things in the comments sections that I thought made it feel personal and intimate (besides everyone’s warm and loving comments 😉) were the background color of the page and the font used for the subject of the comments. I can concede the font, but I think bringing back the familiar color of the background would make this new experience more comfortable. This white makes it feel like it’s just any other site.

Comments sections ~
I agree whole-heartedly with what many are saying about the comments sections on the product pages. I rarely post, probably only a dozen times or less since becoming a member of this site. But these “discussions” are the only reason I regularly come to this site. I know the site was only unavailable for a couple of days or so, but I really missed it. It’s something I like to check in on almost every day. It’s familiar user names like “marye” and many others that let me know I’m in the right place. I’m just not sure about the redecorating yet.

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You are correct that you cannot hover on a smartphone, but on my phone tapping on the avatar brings up the pull-down menu. Then you can either choose something fom the menu or hide it by tapping on the up-arrow "^" next to the avatar. Hope this helps and hope it works for you.

Now time to watch the formula 1 race from Austin, TX.

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Like I said, clicking on the photo or arrow does not do anything on an iPhone 8+.

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Lots of confusion here, almost like the new user interface was designed to limit user interfacing.

I was initially unable to log in due to my password not being recognized, used the reset password feature and the link that was provided via email logged me in but would not actually allow me to reset the password. It appears that I have been logged in since that time.

I am also in the camp of liking the comments for a product linked to that product. This is the main reason that I come here, the comments on the product pages and the caravan of usual suspects migrating from one Dave's Picks comment thread to the next.

The other issues would be the white background, which is pretty blinding after a short period of time reading comments, the relatively limited number of comments per page and the already noted need to scroll up to read comments from old to new, and then the need to scroll back down to move to the next page. Hopefully the bugs are still getting worked out.

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Sorry, I didn't realise you were talking about an iPhone. I have an old Android-based Samsung which works as described in my earlier post.

My daughter had an iPhone once - once was enough. I have heard, however, that iPhones are quite popular.

The comments can be viewed on the product page, just click on the comments button and they appear. But if you want to post it then sends you to the Community page.

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Hot times in the old Winterland arena; great show from the Hamza El Din first set opener to the closing US Blues. The loudest I ever heard Jerry was during that night's Other One -> Stella Blue->Sugar Magnolia. VolleyBall games before the show, and a screening of Magical Mistery Tour(or Animal House??) A great Saturday night all around.

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Now that you pointed it out, I do see the comments tab on the product page. Of course it didn't actually show me any comments when I clicked it, but I expect that they will work it out. Also discovered that my difficulty logging in was due to using my email instead of my user name. Doh!

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Great story Cousins.. wish I was there. I bet you were psyched to see that one get released.

Gives me a great excuse to revisit these shows, it's actually been quite a while since I last listened to them.

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... to declare that after seeing everything GD, from Robert Hunter solo acoustic to the latest version of Dead and Co., collecting thousands of hours of tapes, and buying pretty much everything this site has to offer, I never in my wildest dreams expected, during last night's Bobby and the Wolves show, the second set to open as follows:
Good Morning Little School Girl, Sunshine Superman>Dark Star. Smacked my palm into my forehead, I did.

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Well, they're not going to change it back to the way it was, so I figured I may as well get used to it. Looks better on my laptop than the phone.

I'm a sucker for anniversary shows, so I just popped this one on. Ever notice they seem to have missed or cut off the first milliseconds of the opening chord to Bertha? Just a smidge.

Looking forward to this '76 show, haven't heard of any of it yet.

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Yeah, no idea where the hell I ended up after posting that last comment. I would bitch some more if I didn't hold marye and Dr. Rhino in such high regard. It'll all work out. (come on baby, work out....)

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I just want to let TPTB know that the avatar photo link is now working on the iPhone 8+. Thanks for the effort!

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woohoo, off to nugs.net. Thanks for the heads up.
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Thanks for the reminder. I did forget about the Anthem release. I bought that one just for the live show. In addition to my CD collection, I store all of my shows on my smartphone, each show in its own folder with unique artwork. Since I used the CD album cover artwork for the studio album on my phone, I created artwork for the live show, which of course needed a title. If anyone wants a copy of the album art for 10/22/67, I give you Anthem Of The Moon:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HPjGa4Ua3-yv3YbsP5o6oPD5TuC96-92

Talk about a couple of pieces to compare: The Other One from 10/22/67 and The Other One from 10/22/71. That will be the ride home + Dark Star bonus track from 10/21/71

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Was just wondering if we could still comment on releases. Are the past release comments all permanantly zapped then?

It's going to take somew getting used to this new layout.

I've been touching on the anniversary listening program, and there are some great October releases. Particularly the later era stuff. Decided to deviate from that program and watch VFTV One. Haven't watched it in a while ande what a greeat underrated show that is. Sure hope they bring that series back.

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seems to be getting easier to get here

added edit - looks like some color is creeping in from the sides, maybe the all white is going away

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been in a late-era mood this week:

3/27/88 (Not the official release)
3/31/88
9/29/94
10/14/94
2/21/95 (not the official release)

If anyone wants any of these shows let me know! My copies all sound pretty solid .

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if there's one you're looking for and can't find, let us know.
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still trying to figure out pm system. But I did laugh when all of a sudden there was every pm ever sent, you know, the ones that when you deleted them you were told, they could NEVER be recovered!!! :-)

My phone has the same option, "check deleted messages?" NO! I deleted them, are you uploading them from the government database?

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...received.

Cue the passenger pigeons and donkeys travelling through the mountain passes uphill both ways in the snow...

With any luck it's on my doorstep already. This all happened very fast.

Sixtus

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We are indeed everywhere - U.S. Blues played at the halftime interval of the Arsenal vs Leicester game last night!

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....received. Posting this on my work computer because posting from my phone is a chore. How about a dead.net app?

Shipping notices you say?
Haven’t received mine yet.
How about the announcement of early bird DaP 2019 subscription?
If I win Mega Millions tonight I’m buying all of you a subscription - offer only valid to those who were members of the previous site from 2007 - to a few days ago when the transition to this new site happened. Offer valid for up to the total number of CD pressings for the DaP 2019 release, as determined by TPTB prior to the conception and/or writing of this post, whichever came first, minus the number of defective/damaged CDs. Offer void to members/employees/doppelgängers/wannabes of spam/scammer/hacker/unsavory character/etc., etc., websites/operations/storefronts (reCAPTCHA flashback) etc., etc., etc........
.....crosswalk (reCAPTCHA flashback).....
..........traffic light (reCAPTCHA flashback) .........
......etc., etc., .......

Wait, what?.......

........buses (reCAPTCHA flashback)

Mmmmmmm........
do’hnuts......

......I am a robot......

......I am a robot......

......I am a robot......

......I am a robot......

......mmmmmm.....reCAPTCHA crosswalks.......

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hoops.

do robots dream of electronic hoops?

another perfect day, mi amigos. (if you get the Motorhead reference, I applaud you.)

well, looking forward to the new DaP. haven't had much time to listen to the GD; partway through 6/26/73. antici.....pation...

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Just got my Dave's 28 shipping notice! Woo Hoo! The Dave's Annual Subscription email should be arriving soon too.

Got shipping notice yesterday too, excited for this one. Fantastic tour, most of which is release worthy. And then 30 Days, can't help but love this time of year!

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In preparation for this release (shipping notice today!) I'm listening to Chicago 6-27-76, 10 days later, a smooth Help>Slip>Frank. These four shows in June would make a nice mini box with the full Norman treatment.

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As of this moment, the site still doesn't recognize my password and I have to use the emailed one-time link to log in. And there is a NEW problem. It appears I now get logged out except on THIS page.
Was trying to comment on the Welcome Back thread but opening that page kept logging me out. After two emailed link re-entries to the site, I re-entered the site without logging in, stopped by the DaP28 page and then to the Community Thread page then clicked "post a comment" and was suddenly logged in! Something is rather wrong... More than before.

Original purpose of going to Welcome Back thread was to point out that my favorite new site feature has a probably unintended side effect: The front page "recent comments" section is a great way to keep us comment-mavens up to date. Thank you all for that! BUT, I see that threads for the 2019 DaP and 7" subscriptions have been created. Can't access the threads ("access forbidden"), but does your marketing dept really want us knowing about impending purchase opportunities this way?

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..... normally I would attribute that to a solar flare. But I know better. Check. Check. One two. One two.
And what the hell does that search comment bar do?
edit. I typed in Dark Star. I mean, why not? Screens still bright as the sun, but it took me to random DS posts. I see the intent, just not the reason.
Good luck backing out. Jeez....

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ya know, that does sound a little weird, Seth and Vguy. I'll pass this on.
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Could you be a bit more specific as to what you'd like to see from the Search, as contrasted to what you are getting?
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Thanks for providing all the assistance and support on all these releases, and also with the transition to the new site. Its truly appreciated!

- Slow Dog

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...after several days of nearly burning my retinas on the "ALL WHITE" border/background, I've come to realize that one of the fun/colorful/unique/personalized aspects that is now missing are the pictures of people's avatars. Even if the all-white is kept, the addition of the avatars at least would give some otherwise lacking "personality" to the pages and 'ourselves'. I'm not surprised if traffic here has slowed down - it seems some easy things could be done to make the pages a little more user-enticing.

Just my two pesos.

Be well, People!
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....to be honest marye, I'm not sure what i was expecting when i saw it. Old dog, new tricks. Still learning.

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from what I've been hearing people are now able to go in and fix their munged avatars. Is this not happening for you?
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That was easy and fast. Now we know one of the reasons for the new site. Last year was a near freak-out!

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Woo hoo!

That ordering process went extremely smooth compared to the old site.

Now....let’s see what category of images reCAPTCHA gives me......
I’m hoping for the 9 squares being a Whack-A-Mole game but instead of mole heads it’s Dancing Bear heads.

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