Edhat Staff
Dear Friends and Subscribers,
We’re back! Welcome to the all-new edhat site!
First of all, thank you for your patience, kind messages and unwavering support. We couldn’t (and wouldn’t) do any of this if it weren’t for you all.
As you might have heard, our old site got ransomed! It was like something from an episode of NCIS. Right after it happened to us, we started hearing about it in the news. Big and small companies in more than seventy countries were reporting occurrences of the malware. Some of the companies were paying the ransom, some weren’t. Experts were warning that paying didn’t necessarily guarantee the safe release of data. Nothing we were hearing made us feel any better.
We want to assure you that we saw no evidence of secure data being compromised – that’s not how ransomware works. They basically put a padlock on our data and asked for money to give us the key. But since Ed and Lauren and I do not take kindly to dirty rotten web terrorists, we thumbed our collective noses and decided to move on. We have put some precautions in place on the new site, and will be requiring everyone to update their username and password. We’re currently migrating all our user accounts today, you will receive an email with login instructions for your former edhat account.
You may have been wondering where we’ve been for the last couple of weeks. Well, as you probably know (if you’ve ever spoken to any of the three of us, or even spoken to anybody who has spoken to any of us), we have been working on a new and improved edhat for a long time. And the good news is, the new site is almost ready! So, Ed made the decision to take life’s lemons and make lemonade. He can do that, because, well, he’s Ed.
Rather than messing around with the old site, we’re starting fresh! We would have liked a little more time, but we’ve been hearing from a lot of folks that they miss coming to edhat to find out what’s going around town, and frankly, we miss bringing you that information. So what you see before you is a work in progress. We are still migrating all of the content and archives. Unfortunately, we did lose some content in the transfer. But the bulk of edhat is still the same. All of the news, articles, and commenting functions are working, and we’ll be rolling out new features with user tips week by week, until the transition is complete. It’s going to be awesome! So stay tuned for all the great stuff that’s coming!
Again, thank you all so much for hanging in there with us. We love you, Santa Barbara!
Sincerely,
Sue Foley, publisher
Lauren Bray, managing editor
Ed, the boss
Every day my routine was interrupted, I’d come to the computer with my morning coffee and EdHat was not there……… and I felt so out of touch with community news and dramas. I hope this rebirth inspires some of the laggards to step up and subscribe to keep you going, you ARE appreciated. I’ve been wondering if you put a 2hour time lag on comments by non-subscribers if that would take care of some of the snarky trolling by those who clearly use the site but don’t pay to be a part. Once the summer fires start up we all will be rushing to EdHat for the latest updates, you are a VITAL community resource.
Thanks for getting me all set up again EdHat. I’m sure it was a lot of work to get this site back up. I recently went through a much smaller scale redo of a business website and it was maddening, so I can only imagine your ordeal.
Couple comments:
I agree with the earlier comment about the order of the comments section. I think scrolling to the bottom, reading from the bottom up, then scrolling back down to make a comment is strange.
Things are a lot more spread out, especially the individual articles. Lots of scrolling going on, especially on mobile. Both of these issues may be inherent in the theme and perhaps there aren’t options to change them.
It’s probably time to renew my subscription. I didn’t see that available online when I went into the account settings.
So much clutter. This new site is NOT clean at all. It’s redundant, you have to scroll for days just to get to something similar to the old format, and it’s so annoying on a mobile devise. That little scrolling widget in the header causes the every single page to jump up and down like a jumping monkey on meth. Can nobody fix that? Seriously, hit me up, Puppychow, if you need help with that. Super easy fix. Just go to widgets and in the scrolling header widget just delete it. That cute little scrolling thing is ruining the whole site. Will not be paying for this site until fixed.
This new format is just terrible. Please just go back to the old
Agree with previous comments. I thought it would just take some getting used to, but I just don’t come here much anymore. Maybe once a day, whereas I used to visit several times per day and was a longtime subscriber. The news is cluttered and hard to find. The scrolling pictures at the top are, sadly, useless. I’ll wait for edhat to heed the numerous and repeating feedback… until then, it’s Noozhawk, the Independent and KEYT for me.