Philadelphia Will Do Update

Hi everyone! Sorry for the lack of posting lately; I saw the sign above outside yesterday (the Obama office is upstairs, in case you forgot) and it made me laugh so hard I broke a rib. Okay, no, the real deal: A combination of a deluge of spam comments and the nearly 8,000 posts I’ve done in three years has made it impossible to post.

But there is hope! (And change!) Soon, Philadelphia Will Do will be undergoing a complete overhaul: New blog publishing system (WordPress) and new design (it’s all purty and doesn’t include half of Camden). It’s all pretty slick: Even permalinks to old pages should just redirect to the new WordPress post that’d been copied over. What an age we live in.

This should all be moved over by Monday, so youse will get to read all my lame jokes, hilarious abridgments of Daily News columnists and all the other random stuff I’ve been attempting to write about the past week or two.

We’ve turned comments off temporarily in an attempt to allow me to post the rest of the day. Keep F5′ing furiously, please.

Update: Hmm, looks like it wasn’t comments killing the system this time. I won’t bore you with my technical troubles and will just give you this update instead: Monday morning, we’ll have a new site design! And be able to post! And you will all just eat it up! Or maybe you’ll all protest the site’s new look and eventually I’ll be fired because nobody will be reading anymore.

I’m the kind of guy who will get really motivated by something like a redesign, even though I really don’t know why. The design guys did a really great job on the new look; hopefully I can match its brilliance with some really great jokes about Philly.com commenters. I mean, really, have you seen some of the comments on this one? It’s like they’re improving superficially but actually getting much, much worse.