Questions About The Site

I've had to sign back in 4 or 5 times today even though I've left the same window open (and haven't cleared my cache or anything). Anybody else having this problem or am I as unique as I think I am?

I'm having a problem with TD but I think it's unique to my personal install of Google Chrome, as no one else I speak to seems to have the problem. Every so often, Twins Daily will not be centered in my browser window and will appear on the left of the window instead of the middle. The entire site shifts to the left upon loading pages. Is anyone else seeing this issue? If not, please say so... If it DOES appear on the left, definitely let me know. I spent quite a bit of time yesterday writing the site so that under NO circumstances can it shift to the left, yet it continues to do so on my screen (which pretty much means it's a personal browser issue). Please let me kno…

How do you add polls and where can you do it (blog posts only, forums, anywhere even discussions)?

When I am in the forum and logged in, if, from a forum post, I click a link to an article on the home page, I will not be logged in there. Then, if I try to navigate back to the forum, from the front page, I will no longer be logged in there. On the other hand, if I go to the home page directly by typing twinsdaily.com into the address bar, I will be logged in again, even after having just been there not logged in. The same thing happens if I go back to the forum by typing the address... I am already logged in. I have experienced this several times. Does anyone else have this problem?

I just posted a chart. I created it in OpenOffice Calc (free Excel alternative), did a screen print, cropped out everything but the chart, saved it as an image, uploaded the image to the post. Is there an easier way?

where can I introduce myself to T.D.

Up to this point, Twins Daily hasn't had an official policy regarding comments; it's mostly been "be civil." Sometimes this has worked. Sometimes it hasn't. We've talked a lot amongst ourselves about being a little clearer and decided that whatever we adopt will have a link on the footer of the site and be re-posted occasionally to make sure everyone knows the rules. I'd like to propose this as the new policy, which we based on the policy for MLBTradeRumors.com. But before we charge ahead, I think it's important to get the community's feedback. Comments of this nature are not allowed: 1. Personal attacks or insults towards other commenters, the post author, journalis…

If your mouse touches on some full screen video and sound pop up. Very annoying. Tell big lead sports or whoever to turn them off unless they are giving you a premium CPM for that garbage.

1. Make more forum topics. I (like many from BYTO) like to talk about politics, games and movies just like baseball. Right now the forum isn't set up to have this variety. Please help RP. 2. I want to see the difference between threads I've read and threads I haven't. It is annoying when I think there is a new post but I find there isn't. Make it more obvious. 3. Separate stickies and regular thread topics. Its too cluttered. 4. Icons for forums. Doesn't have to be snarky, but it just gives it a cooler feel. Done for now, more to come.

Logged onto TD today and noticed the graphics only fill the middle of my monitor screen whereas in the past they would go almost to the edge. Has the screen resolution of Twins Daily been lowered?

One of our (and especially my) biggest goals when creating Twins Daily was to encourage other independent Twins writers. That's why every member who joins automatically gets a blog and why those blog posts are featured on the far left of the front page. But so far, I'm unhappy to say, I think we (meaning TwinsCentric) has done a poor job of fostering these. Too often we get busy with our writing duties and on the forums and don't give the blogs enough attention. I really feel that those brave enough to post should receive feedback, editing and maybe even promotions. We do some of that, but I really feel like we (and especially I) don't do as much as we would like. So I…

How come my post has to be reviewed by a moderator before being viewable? Did I do something.... bad? *wink

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Can you please make comments appear on 1 page? I hate the fact I have to press the "next" button

I lost the link to BYTO, then I forgot the name of the site...old age related, then, when I finally remember the name, I find myself here. Again I ask WTF?

I think this has been mentioned in the past, but the RSS feed likes to resend posts multiple times, some being a couple days old. Has this ever been looked into, as it gets a little annoying for those of us who live in GReader. Also, it would be nice to see the full article in the feed, but I know a lot of sites are against doing that to get you to come the page. I'd be fine with seeing advertising in the feed if that was the concern. Thanks!

Back on BYTO, we used to have a weekly contest/game called PotW (Picture of the Week). It was a lot of fun and it allowed users to participate in poking fun at various aspects of the game. It wasn't necessarily all about the Twins but most of the content was Twins-related in some regard. Here's an example from a few years back: "The only thing you guys know about pitching is that you can't hit it. Now go away and let me do my job." I had quite a difficult time choosing which one to post here, for what it's worth... These things almost always end up being hilarious. Anyway, is this something the Twins Daily crowd would be interested in participating in if I handle the …

I'm just curious about the game articles I make each day... How much use do you guys get out of them? Do you like having the stats available for the day's game? I put a fair amount of work into each one so I'm just gauging peoples' thoughts about them. Is there something you'd like to see? Do you not care at all? Just curious.

I've been having problems with this lately (threads show up as unread, even if they are read). I'm tired of marking all forums as read multiple times a day so I looked into it... Turns out, there's a way to store the information in the database instead of using a cookie-based solution. So, all forums will show up as unread as of now. You can fix this by going to "Forum Actions" in the blue bar below the navigation window. Let me know if any of you continue to have issues with threads that should be marked "read" showing up as "unread".

I love our ballpark until I take a look at our ugly batter's eye. It looks like someone rolled a plywood wall (the kind you practice hitting tennis balls against) with black paint. I understand that this is more complicated (some kind of honeycomb material) and that the Twins have spent a couple of million dollars on what we have right now. How about putting back the trees and if that is not a possibility putting some silhousette trees on it or even a TC logo? Truly Target Field looks like a beautiful person with a black eye. I heard that the Twins were looking at may be a couple of trees on the edges of it to soften the look. What do you think? May be Reusse wasn't wrong…

I'm going to attempt the first software update for Twins Daily on Sunday morning. In all likelihood, you won't even notice a thing. At most, the site will be down temporarily (an hour or so) while I perform maintenance. I'm going to start before 8am so most of you won't notice anyway but I thought it would be prudent to announce any potential down time.

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Seems like when I can actually get a page to load, there is comments here and there about pages not loading or slow loading or similar. I don't know if this is "thread-worthy," but I also don't know where else to mention this. The last several days, more often than not, when I open a thread, one of the following things happens: 1) The original poster shows, but without showing the post itself and showing nothing below it (and not being able to scroll down at all). 2) The original post and maybe some responses show properly, but at some point the thread seems cut off with the final entry showing again the poster, but no post. (The # of replies in the thread being larger …

I don't know whether there was an upgrade here but IE (latest version) has a hard time displaying threads (textboxes appear in every comment). That was not there with IE a couple days ago. (I swear). Firefox is fine. Not a big deal, but letting y'all know.

Can we get the old Batista/Stalin/Crying Baby avatars back to signify our veteran presence?

Did you guys make a decision to change the organization of the site? Why are article comments and game threads now under Twins Talk? One of the things I liked best about the site was that you had a pretty good organizational structure. Not too many divisions under forums but just enough that I knew that the Article comments would generally be by the 4 Twins Centrics writers plus a few bloggers; Twins talk would generally have threads unrelated to articles and that Game Threads had their own home. Curious why things are getting lumped together today.

I have been wondering for awhile if the author of Granny Baseball, the person who would go by "TT" is here at Twins Daily. It seemed like TT was one of the most frequent commenters on various Twins blogs . . . so I was just wondering.

1. I went to my profile to edit my information. I was able to do my biography without a problem, but once I finished with that, I was unable to edit my location, occupation, or interests. I had to leave my profile and then return in order to edit another thing, but then the same problem occurred. If possible, I'd want to be able to edit all of my info at once instead of having to leave the page and return in order to do each single portion. 2. I think the minimum number of characters for "Interests" could be increased. I tried typing two full sentences and quickly learned that won't be possible. I understand if you may want to prevent some of us from finding our inner …

I have really been enjoying the new site -- thanks for the great resources and all the work that has obviously gone into it. I am a relatively new baseball fan, and I come up with a TON of obnoxious newbie questions every time I read a blog post or forum thread. I hold back from asking them partly out of embarrassment, but also because I don't want to hold back the flow of the conversation by asking something like "I'm struggling to understand what pulling the ball means, I've googled and googled and I'm still confused. Can someone help me with that?" (for the record -- I figured that out last year, I'm just using it as an example here). So I was wondering if you …

So Trevor Plouffe starts raking after he gets steady at bats. Why wasn't he an everyday player from opening day? I keep seeing stat lines detaling his production before May, which was putrid, and after, which has been spectacular. I'm happy as a pig in s#i! with his production, but is there anyone else asking themselves why he didn't get more playing time and at bats before May?