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by JoelMarsh 4523 days ago
I am the author. Thank you for pointing out my mistake: I TOTALLY AGREE about the new tab/window issue, and I have now fixed it. That must have been brutal on a mobile device.

It was intended to open a new window when linking from the "directory" post, but going from post-to-post in sequence shouldn't open 31 new tabs. They were posted one-at-a-time, so I didn't realize what would happen when being viewed as a set of 31.

A rather cringe-worthy oversight, I would say. It was indeed a Tumblr theme setting, which I changed, and also 31 instances of hand-editing the html of the articles, which was super fun. ;)

Apologies to everyone who suffered and thank you for the feedback. I just wish I had noticed sooner!

1 comments

I found the Miss Teen USA comment in the 3rd article off-putting:

> There are cases where it is more fun if something is hard — like a game — but for everything else, we want it to be so easy that even a Miss Teen USA contestant could use it.

I followed the reference to the video of Miss South Carolina 2007 answering a very simple question, and was able to find the humour in how bad her answer was. I didn't think it was appropriate to insinuate that she is representative of all Miss Teen USA contestants though.

Agreed. I suggest: "we want it to be so easy that even a USA vice-president could use it" and link to The Tomato Incident.