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Hi Greg,
Thank you for paying attention for this and sharing your thought.
You are absolutely right. And yes, my saying doesn't tell anything about how to design the architecture, as I did not mean to say that. I would be surprised to see someone's aphorism saying something like that. Also, I believe that the formulation of a problem is the most important thing.
It's interesting that you mentioned excessive customization, even though it has nothing to do with the characteristic I suggested, and it can often work badly against the criterion. I can understand if this is because this is another problem bothering you. Indeed, I used to figure out that some customization was designed as if the goal of it wasn't the function of the system, but simply the inability of the authors to develop proper industrial design: we cannot make good design decisions, maybe the user can... 
Thank you.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Your post mentioned excessive customization as a drawback, which is why I commented on it.
Thanks,
Greg
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Ah, thank you, you reminded me what I already forgot.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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It didn't "disappear", it was sent to moderation by the automatic system because of a dodgy looking link. As a result, it sat in the moderation queue until a human got out of bed and let it through (in this case, me).
The system scans every post and checks it looks OK - if it finds something it recognises as similar to spam it has seen before, it is sent to moderation so a human being can review it and - in this case - let it through or kill it.
From time to time, we get serious floods of spam, and the automatic system prevents the whole site being unreadable. It does make mistakes, but they are rare and you happened to post a message that did look pretty spammy - I had to check the link to see what exactly you were linking to before I was sure it wasn't spam.
Normally, the moderation process is pretty quick, but it does rely on volunteers being available and there are times of day when there are less of us available. Have a little patience, please!
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Jo_vb.net wrote: All in all this CP website is very disappointing for me.
Will no longer waste my time here...
Pity, but... free will. We wish you the best. Bye bye.
M.D.V. 
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I received the "Daily News" newsletter twice today;
The same thing happened on Monday also.
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Same here for both days. I suspect the scheduled email job fell over at some point and ran again later in the day.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Due to a bug, that I have resolved, I had to restart the sending of the newsletters. This resulted in some getting two copies of the emails.
You should only get one going forward.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I don't know what is @Sean-Ewington doing lately... but his reputation turned around and went in the wrong direction. 
M.D.V.
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Yeah, we know.
He was playing around one day and mangled his rep.
He doesn't care, so we left it as a reminder to not randomly push buttons and poke his fingers into sockets.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Matthew Dennis wrote: ... we left it as a reminder to not randomly push buttons and poke his fingers into sockets.
Are you sure it is working? 
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Not a bug in my opinion.
The article was composed originally in 2015 and was updated today (I was one of the "approve" reports)
If it got deep in the system it might be perfectly normal that the comments get a break of a couple of years. Now it is in the first page again due to the edition as a new version.
Versions 1 to 4 are in 2015.
Version 5 and 6 (currently published) are from a couple of hours ago
My own article was written in 2007, had some comments after publication, then some comments in 2013 and nothing else until today. If I edit and comes again to the front page is the same situation.
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Every updated Article should have a "History" section with release dates and versions.
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It has it.
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M.D.V.
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It is very confusing, I agree. They really need to change that. I should not have to look for the revision count to see if this is a brand new article or an update to an article 10+ year's old. It should be intuitive and easily recognizable.
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Hm...
Classic says:
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell, 1984
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Nice quote
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This is weird: Some basic functions using DRYWET MELANCHALL[^]
The article is in the moderation queue:
And shows up with an approval box:
But the comments forum is missing as says the article hasn't been submitted for publishing:
It's an article, so it should have a forum, and it needs one to tell him it's nowhere near an article yet!
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Maybe because it was closed in the first version?
Additionally... that has been an issue with auto fed blogs for a while and I think still is.
M.D.V.
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Blogs you can kinda understand, but this is basically saying "this is a preview, not the actual article for moderation".
I think it's a minor bug. 
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Was it intentional to no longer change the mouse cursor when hovering the comment voting buttons?
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