I know there are probably still some things to work out, but overall it looks great to me.

I wasn't expecting this big of an overhaul, but it looks really nice.

Can't wait for spring training to start.

and I freaking HAVE a WM phone.

I totally understand the necessity of ads, but they really shouldn't be the primary focus of the page, right?

I've been reading for almost a year. The new look and everything motivated me to finally sign up for an account. Hope to not offend anyone

Reactions to the new AN:
The bad: The general busy-ness, the word "fanposts" instead of "diaries," the bigger print all seem to suggest a general dumbing-down.
The good: Getting team stats, box scores and that stuff into the site seems to address a lot of the concerns people had about the game recaps; no need now to go visit ESPN for that stuff.
Obviously a lot of hard work was done; this stuff should help the site draw advertising and maybe will make it more profitable. I would like to urge you, Blez, to reinvest the profits into signing future prospects. The farm system is bare!

recommended a fanpost? It used to list the people.

I would like to see is changing the c function so that the highlighted comment is at the bottom of the page instead of the top. When I tab through, I keep having to scroll back up to see what the comment is replying to.

I was afraid it was going to be really bad, like MySpace kind of bad, but it's not so bad. Just keep on having AN day, and I'll be happy.

Blez, for what it's worth, I think it's great so far. Everybody will have a different opinion on the design, that's just the nature of the beast. I personally like it a lot - it's more professional looking, though still feels fan friendly to me.

It's impressive how far this has come since AN v1, you should be very proud of yourself and your crew.

First, I don't like "FanPosts". I don't know why, but I just don't. When I can figure out why, I'll let y'all know....

Second, once you are looking at a specific "FanPost", the list on the right says "Recent Headlines", and only includes postings from the mainpage, not the diaries/FanPosts. I like having a list of all the diaries that are posted, rather than having to go back to the main page to look for them.

Thirdly, once a diary/FanPost becomes recommended, it disappears from the list of recent diaries/FanPosts. Why? Does it really cause that much more for it to be listed in both places? Because for some of us, we don't care if a diary was recommended, but we remember that it was posted before the one-line diary/FanPost and after the pictures of bobby crosby's backside diary/FanPost.

That's my two cents worth....

Both with the quality of what you've put together, and your gathering of feedback. Most of the complaints have been very minor considering the scope of the changes.

(and I already mentioned it elsewhere but wanted to be safe) is that, when you look at someone's profile, in addition to showing the fanposts and comments they have posted, it shows what they voted in polls. Doesn't bother me, but I could imagine it bothering others.

Other than that-WOW! I'm getting used to it already and really like some of the new features.

then come back and still be logged on. Now it seems I have to log on every time I return and in addition, I'm bumped to the parent SBNation website first then have to click to go back to AN.

Waahh!!

I want my Mommy!!

If we're voting on this, count me in favor of the term "fanpost". It makes so much more sense than "diaries". They aren't diaries, and they aren't blogs; they're posts, so calling them posts is perfectly logical. Calling them fanblogs would be totally bizarre. If you had a special page showing all the posts by one member, I suppose you could call that a "fanblog", but one post is certainly not a blog.

Looks great!

I just joined the AN (the enemy) cause LSB is not ready yet. I really like this. Good job so far.

This is going to be really nice!

Now fixin to try and get use to this is another project :)

It will take some getting used to but within 2 weeks or so I'm sure I'll love all the new features. Can't wait to see the updated stats once the games begin.

Though it seems a little busy, I'm sure I'll get used to it. Love the avatars, but I wish you'd ditch the signatures. It's annoying to see the same quotes over and over; and even if they're clever, they become stupid with repetition.

for manly posts. (Repeating my idea from dld because manlyposts need repeating). Ya know, the kind of posts that men in bars talk about with each other...ManPostManPostManPostManPostManPostManPostManPostManPost

Or did I just miss it. It's nice to have an RSS feed to stick in my reader or google gadget without having to make a side trip to see what is going on at AN.

Not pointing to anyone in particular, but I wonder how many of the cases where someone found his or her username unavailable it wasn't really unavailable at all, but they just didn't sign up in the proper order.

If you happen to end up on the new sign-up page before going through the claim-old-accounts process, then your name would be blocked by your own unclaimed account, right?

I'll bet that happened to a few people.

I like it Blez!