As you may notice, the top of the page looks a bit different. The main thing I wanted to do was to see if I could move the content up a bit higher on the page - which I did mainly by getting rid of the gigantic "Universal Hub" (also, you Courier haters will notice the change in the font). In practical terms, the main change is for you logged-in users who post new items here - the POST link is now in a different location, at the very top of the page (if that drives you nuts, let me know; it's easy enough to move back down).
I'll probably be making some addition modifications to the rest of the page at some point - the blueish tags section sort of doesn't work on index pages because it's hard to tell at first glance if it goes with the post it's immediately below or the post it's immediately above.
Oh, as long as I'm talking about changes, here's the deal with anon comments on posts:
I still don't like the idea of anonymous comments on UH postings. But they're turned on because of the way I smushed a couple of other resources (the Wicked Good Guide to Boston English and Boston Crime into Universal Hub. Both had anonymous comments enabled and both worked OK that way.
Unfortunately, the software that runs UH doesn't make it easy to allow anonymous comments in some areas and not others. I actually installed a plug-in that lets you do that and it works - except that anonymous users would still see a "Reply" link on UH posts, even though it wouldn't work for them. So I need to dig into the comment logic a bit here to add a rule that basically says "If the user is anonymous, don't show him the Reply link") - and, er, well, I haven't done that yet. So far, the anon commenting seems to have not gotten out of hand here, but that could be because all anonymous comments now go into a queue where I decide whether to let them through, which lets me screen out the purely ad-hominem attacks (oh, you anon users, so brave behind your masks) and the stupid spam stuff.
