The first blog post is live

AnthonySmith

The privacy mode or regular refreshers will have noticed that there is a blog link on the top menu now, It has its own unread post counter on it also.

I removed the support link as there have been no support tickets for 30+ days now that most things that caused support tickets are automated.

This is the first of many posts in the new LES Blog, its tied in to vanilla so you dont need separate accounts to comment etc.

@mikho kicking things off with a series on the history of LE*/LES and the aptly named "Deadpool Files"

Anyway, there will not be a forum post for every new blog article so as not to flood the forum; instead, just a little counter you should see for any new/unread blog posts.

Tandoor

Thanks for writing this. Interesting to read.

vyas

Good start ! Curious… does the blog use different cms or is it a stylesheet specific thing?

mikho

@vyas said:
Good start ! Curious… does the blog use different cms or is it a stylesheet specific thing?

Built into vanilla, all posts are typed in as Markdown (at least mine are).
So I would say css

mizzik

Is there a way to clear the blog notifications without having to enter it?

david3

I often find the blog notification wrong. For example, I've already read 2 of them, and it says there are 2 new, but when I click on it, there is only 1 new post.

tulipyun

Please do not notify me of any updates to the blog. Thank you.

AnthonySmith

@david3 said:
I often find the blog notification wrong. For example, I've already read 2 of them, and it says there are 2 new, but when I click on it, there is only 1 new post.

Thanks for the feedback I will check that

AnthonySmith

@tulipyun said:
Please do not notify me of any updates to the blog. Thank you.

Top right hand corner and then if on mobile click the user icon and select sign out, you will then get no notifications of any blog posts.

AnthonySmith

@mizzik said:
Is there a way to clear the blog notifications without having to enter it?

I will add that thanks for the feedback

rpqu

I was told there's a blag post worth 3H of reading, @mikho. I read it it like 10m

somik

Should we be seeing the blog notifications (giant red circle with number) for EVERY comment on the blog? I thought the notification was only for new blog posts...

AnthonySmith

@somik said:
Should we be seeing the blog notifications (giant red circle with number) for EVERY comment on the blog? I thought the notification was only for new blog posts...

No, but ... Shit.

dosai

@AnthonySmith said:

@tulipyun said:
Please do not notify me of any updates to the blog. Thank you.

Top right hand corner and then if on mobile click the user icon and select sign out, you will then get no notifications of any blog posts.

When I log back in, the notification is still there.

AnthonySmith

@dosai said:

@AnthonySmith said:

@tulipyun said:
Please do not notify me of any updates to the blog. Thank you.

Top right hand corner and then if on mobile click the user icon and select sign out, you will then get no notifications of any blog posts.

When I log back in, the notification is still there.

@somik said:
Should we be seeing the blog notifications (giant red circle with number) for EVERY comment on the blog? I thought the notification was only for new blog posts...

@AnthonySmith said:

@mizzik said:
Is there a way to clear the blog notifications without having to enter it?

I will add that thanks for the feedback

@tulipyun said:
Please do not notify me of any updates to the blog. Thank you.

@mizzik said:
Is there a way to clear the blog notifications without having to enter it?

You now only see the number of blog posts you have not read, not the comment total, and if you don't give a fuck about any of the content on the blog, where reviews and LES subsidised deals will be in the future, or any progress we are trying to make, then you can just click the number now to dismiss it.

mikho

@mizzik said:
Is there a way to clear the blog notifications without having to enter it?

Mark all as read.

@rpqu said:
I was told there's a blag post worth 3H of reading, @mikho. I read it it like 10m

31-minute read.

It will be posted within the next couple of days.
The Deadpool series is split into ~10 minutes.
The wall of text it (already is alot) would probably make the whole tiktok-generation lose focus on their life.

somik

@AnthonySmith said:
You now only see the number of blog posts you have not read, not the comment total, and if you don't give a fuck about any of the content on the blog, where reviews and LES subsidised deals will be in the future, or any progress we are trying to make, then you can just click the number now to dismiss it.

Thanks for fixing it. I usually skim the blog posts if there are new ones, so getting notifications for new blog posts is something good to have.

somik

@mikho said:
It will be posted within the next couple of days.
The Deadpool series is split into ~10 minutes.
The wall of text it (already is alot) would probably make the whole tiktok generation lose focus on their life.

Not a tiktok user or perpetual scroll addict, but I do find the wall of text a bit draggy.

A good way to go about it is to break it up more with headers, graphs, charts, images, tables, etc. So it's not just one huge block of text, but many smaller blocks with "breaks".

stupidgenius

@AnthonySmith Minor thing, but seems like the dates are off on the blog posts. i.e. the deadpool files part 2 I believe was published today but it shows a date of 08-13-2026 (mm-dd-yyyy) for me. Maybe it is using the original draft date or something?

AnthonySmith

@stupidgenius said:
@AnthonySmith Minor thing, but seems like the dates are off on the blog posts. i.e. the deadpool files part 2 I believe was published today but it shows a date of 08-13-2026 (mm-dd-yyyy) for me. Maybe it is using the original draft date or something?

Yeah it uses the original post date we mark them as published when they are ready so there might be some discrepancy sometimes.

mikho

@stupidgenius said:
@AnthonySmith Minor thing, but seems like the dates are off on the blog posts. i.e. the deadpool files part 2 I believe was published today but it shows a date of 08-13-2026 (mm-dd-yyyy) for me. Maybe it is using the original draft date or something?

I mentioned something similar to @AnthonySmith when copy/pasting from my local copy that I request a scheduled date/time when the post should be published.

So, it is on the TADAA-list.

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