Hi Sum_off,

Thanks for starting this thread. As always, let me say that sajha has grown so far because people actually care enough to let me know what would be better for sajha and I have attempted to take in suggestions to try to make it so.

This new round of update were sparked by Captain Haddock's suggestions as well as a reminder that I had been keeping from as far back as around 2004. It was Czar, one very good writer, who we don't see anymore unfortunately, who encouraged me to do something that would retain good writers. That's how the sajha guild - now known as the Sajha blogs took form. That however was not a good solution specially since back then I had to add the guild articles myself.

I experimented breaking out into groups, but people tend to want everything handy on the front page. As you can see, most of the groups lay barely touched.

In most other forums, you go to the first page, and you see a list of catagories you have to select from. Then only you get to the discussions. But in sajha people are used to seeing everything on the front page.

You might be surprised, that this new round of update is actually geared towards giving excellent writers like yourself a block in the front page, which would also make it easier for readers to go to the catagory directly to read stories only. I had intended to keep the "Stories/Essays/Literature" block open by default just like the Kurakani, and make the rest be customizable according to user preference, but I suppose I forgot to set the default cookie to do that - my bad - but it's been done now! I did however put it under classifieds and immigration (which would remain closed by default) because I wanted to give precedence to the way sajha evolved - first just a place for general kurakani, then classifieds evolved with plethora of questions regarding immigration... only highlighting the importance of the "stories" catagory by keeping it open by default - which I didn't - thus seemingly making my point weak - but now hopefully strenghtened by the fact that it's all set now

Even for myself, the stories being shared by talented writers make it worth my while to spend countless hours in sajha as a mere reader.

There is more to be done to make this new change smoother around the edges, please bear with me while it's done, and please feel free to make suggestions and comments. Hopefully by the next week or so it will all be bearable.

And then again, if things dont work out at all, we can always revert back to the way things were! As always, it's a win win situation : )

Just wanted to acknowledge comments by Amazing, o_o, riten, cerine, captn and no quiro.

Quick note to cerine - having all of the groups open would mean it takes more time to open the home page that's why by default i have most of them closed.

Amazing, always been a fan of your amazing style, keep it up, hopefully some more changes coming soon to a browser near you will make things easier..

Riten thanks for your belief in me : ) Will try to make things better...

no_quiero - unfortunately there are not enough ads to fill the rest of the pages

Captain see what you got me into?