I'd like to see a mobile-friendly TBP page offered, much like those available at Pam's and MSNBC. Since my computer's been on the fritz and I've often found myself relying on my WiFi-capable Playstation Portable to surf the web, I've found the regular TBP site to be notoriously difficult to visit for any length of time. It's not only slow to load but also redirects me to the MT login page every few minutes regardless of whether I have logged in previously or not.

Providing an easy-to-use page for mobile users would likely increase the number of visitors and visits to the site and perhaps even the number of comments and commenters.

Also, by doing this I think you'd make a lot of Projectors who rely on their mobile devices for web access while away from their homes or offices very happy.

You know Rebecca, you are absolutely right. I think its time that TBP gets a mobile version... it sure would help me stay on top of comments. I've been haggled by my own readers on buffawhat(1/1000 of the amount that TBP gets) to go mobile friendly and its something that most site should have these days.

Might I ask what kind of phone you have?

I agree with Rebecca that a mobile version would be nice. It's a lot of scroll down, scroll down, scroll down to get past the logo and ads. I haven't been able to comment from my LG Dare either.

But what I'd suggest more than that is just a general cleanup. I'm not talking about ads; I know those aren't going anywhere. I'm talking about all the junk (if I may be so bold) like the bookmark buttons (Do people really use those? I've read that most people who use delicious, mixx, etc. are more technically savvy and usually have the button built into their browser.), the sphere link (sphere found no related articles even on the Mason Wyler rape and Lawrence King articles), the twitter link, the email link, the digg button. (I looked at the digg results or whatever for your most popular articles, and most of them hadn't been submitted. None of them had even a hundred diggs. (That says less about you than it does about the changing relevance of digg. Same with delicious.)

And that's just to get from the article to the comments. Then below the comment form is three paragraphs of mice type that people don't really pay attention to. Could that be put on a separate page and be linked to before the comment form? Something like G-A-Y does. If not that, edit it down to a couple lines at most.

Then there's the tag links over in the 2nd column. They've been leading to 404 pages for as long as I can remember. Ditch those, or at least the showcasing of them, and maybe put the dropdowns for categories and authors that are currently on the Archives page in their place.

God, I'm a bitch.

To re-state it in the positive, I guess what I'm suggesting is that you clean up the presentation. Look through the data and see what tools people are using. If they aren't using it, toss it out. If there's a better way to showcase it, change it up.

I would like to see more content about queer arts and the queer art scene.

By this I do not mean gossip about Madonna, Real World contestants, or anything of that ilk.

I would love to read reports and reviews of gallery openings (whether in NYC or anywhere else in the country), music recitals, independent film, downtown queer underground scenes and events, and that sort of thing. Anything queer and art-related that is somewhat under the television-driven pop consciousness.

Arts and humor would be great and bi issues blogging would be good too but that is more the fault of there being a dearth of bi bloggers. maybe I should learn to blog.

I'd like to see original short fiction and literary non-fiction. And along that line, some travel and destination stories.

On the other end of the spectrum, interviews and profiles of glbt business and community leaders.

How about an ongoing LGBT history column. Someone above mentioned some fiction posts as well - I know at least one of your Projectors (fur-dorable elevin) has posted some fiction on his site in the past.

As for immediate changes, I think that since Jerame got the bugs worked out of the comments I don't really have anything I'd want to change.

My suggestion is to lengthen the time of a login session. What I mean is, when I login to make a comment and click the checkbox to "remember me," the site "forgets" me too soon. It does seem to "remember" me for awhile, but when I come back the another day to make a comment, it's forgotten me again. :-(

I suppose that Movable Type uses a cookie for its "memory" and that it expires in a day or so. Is there a way to have it expire in a week? Or maybe two?

My suggestion is to number the comments. Comments in response to others can be labeled with numbers and letters, such as 1a. 1b., etc.

If you're reading a long comment list in more than one session, it can help to remind you where you left off.

As a budding/struggling/questionable non-professional comedienne, I'd love more humor myself. But as a feminist - yes, I use that term proudly - I wouldn't mind seeing more women's issues covered either.

Both together ... could be done. Carefully. :D