Took me longer than I thought but Nav2.0 is now live. Took into account much of the feedback you gave me and will be implementing more of your requests over time.
So why the radical change? The main reason was that the old UI was not scaling together with the community features that I am/was rolling out - as soon as I deal with a few bug fixes I will start to work on the next feature which I think you may like. I want this place to be more than just a blog and move towards an Otaku/Japan portal. However, I do intend to continue to write stuff everyday and bring you coverage from events like the Tokyo Anime Fair this week ^^.
The site looks pretty much how I want it to look in Firefox but can look quite crap in places in IE6, IE7 and Safari - didnt have capacity to QA on other browsers. CSS is not complete and will work that over time too.
Above: First notice the Display options menu - yes it looks crap but will do something about it soon ^^; Nav2.0 view is the default view. Choose Legacy view to switch the middle column to your previous browsing experience. From Legacy view, you can switch to Nav2.0 anytime. A cookie is set so you dont have to do this all the time. The URL will stay the same too.
You can also choose to show/hide comments too. This does not work in Safari at the moment and will work on fixing it soon. The first post shows the last 5 comments. 2nd, 3rd, 4th post shows the last 3 comments and the remaining posts dont show any comments (on the top page).
If you hate the new top page, you can always choose the previous design but I wont be updating the content in the side columns.
Above: This is for folks reading the RSS - default Nav2.0 view.
Above: This is what the site will look like for those who have set the middle column to Legacy view. The Random Posts on the left column change to Recent Posts.
Above: Those who hate comments can hide them - Safari fix soon-ish (maybe ^^;)
Above: If the post is a gallery post, when you click the first photo, it will dim to display these options. I done this because many will click to view the whole post, but then previous users may expect to enlarge the image.
Above: Added
Snap Preview for the Otakurls so you can see how NSFW the links are before clicking ^^; Not working in IE for some reason but will work on fixing it.
