Website changes

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ioi said:

There seem to be mixed opinions regarding some of the new parts of the site. In an attempt to quickly and efficiently figure out what to keep and what to change, here are some simple yes / no points I'd like people to answer

1) Do you like the horizontal main menu? Dont use it - at all.

2) Would you prefer the sub-menus to be activated on hover? Prefer on hover (I think).

3) Do you like the new rich text editor? If no, then is it the idea of a rich text editor in general or this particular implementation? Don't mind it - sort of prefer it now, but won't die if the old version comes back :)

4) Do you like the idea of a news system where only the most popular stories are shown on the front page? No - news should be like a newspaper, and show the most recent stories ( plus maybe most popular)

5) Do you like popularity to be measured by "votes" or simply by page impressions? Impressions is fine

6) Do you like the rich text for news stories (embed videos, flash files, edit layout and colours) or just simple text news stories? Assuming that all (?) news stories are links to other sites, I think a link/plain text is good enough.

Simple answers to each so we can effectively "vote" and I can make some changes. Any other comments / suggestions also welcome in here

Needs to be a strong differentiator between "news" stories & "threads" (and what goes on each). Don't want to be creating duplicates for interesting topics.