Welcome to the Upgraded Activist Post Websiteselfnews Post recently celebrated its 5th year anniversary as part of the Independent Media and were only weeks away from hitting 100 million pageviews!Were deeply grateful for your support. Please take some time to navigate around the site and feel free to leave your comments and additional recommendations for anything else we might be able to do to offer you a faster, betterexperience reading our content. We appreciate your readership and interaction. Contact us anytime HERE. In Peace. Love. Liberty. The selfnews Post Team Very nice.. Thank you! As AP has been the first site I visit most surfing sessions, and for a long time, I wanted to offer a first impression, that being that I liked your previous template much better visually. This new has much less immediacy for me, doesnt lead to me wanting to scroll down (and I also really miss the sidebar links to complementary sites). Feels sort of blah, and like Ive seen it before, whereas your longtime prior template was unique in look and feel, or so I deemed it. Good luck with it. I hope it will grow on me, but at the moment, am sorry you fixed what didnt seem broken. Thank you for the honest impression. Visuals and feel aside, there were some technical issues as well that really impacted site performance for some people especially on the mobile side. Well be tweaking here and there over the next bit of time, so well certainly take your comments into consideration. Thank you for being a loyal reader we really appreciate your support. A-MMM, The other critical posts above said it better than I, if more shrilly, i.e., the sites no longer a hub this way, with this new look lack of links. That is exactly one of the reasons it was my first click each session, the hub factor, with the other being that, the way it looked, the spacing of the articles (and APs talent in choosing and writing them), gave a great, concise overview of the latest developments in the alt./truth/liberty news world. Not so many posts as What Really Happened, for example, which is too much, too many, for me a lot of the time, as good as it is, and also not just a blog, like my own, for example. Not sure you understood what you had. Perhaps you hadnt gotten enough positive feedback about your site along the way, but youve lost your distinction, for now, anyway. Im sorry technical issues forced the change, but perhaps you might consider the feedback youre getting, and find a way to incorporate what we found notable and so compelling about your old site into your more technically adept new one? Please consider it. To others missing the links: use the Wayback Machine to find the site from just before the change and save the home page with the former look and all the links onto your computer as an html document. Also, just realized: Im sure hoping all the bookmarks Ive made of the old site still open in some form. Will they? J It looks really good! Good work, keep it up! Much appreciated! Easier to navigate. Thanks for listening. The old site was better. If its not broke why fix it? Where are the links? You can find them at the top of any page under Resources Okay, I liked the list of alternative news sources/ links on the right side now youve cut yourself out of the loopwho was the egocentric/control freak Einstein that suggested you delete it ???(erroneously assuming that people will focus entirely on your site?)this you will regret! as people will go elsewhere as incremental attrition will result on an unconscious level your readership will declineguaranteedif it aint broke dont fix it you used to be the HUBnow youre on the outside looking inimo Oh Edward we know you will always be on the inside, of fantasyland that is. Yes no links just articles on the right from this site. You can find Resources links at the top of every page http://www.activistpost.com/resources. And our must read links beneath articles on the home page. I echo Js sentiments this has always been a favourite site. Wow. I am just not getting it? I turned to alt media about three years ago, and I really dislike saying this, but all of my favorite sights have upgraded. Unfortunately, the joy of simple navigation has been placed on the back burner. Now it appears to be a conspiracy to get you to like through social media (which I do not participate) and to subscribe, so you can be bombarded by e-mails with every article they post, that I have already read. Oh, and then the sights that you have not subscribed to, you cannot even read through an entire article without be blasted to either like or subscribe. For non-establishment, it is becoming worse than the establishment! AND what does sort by best mean? best is by comments that receive the most likes.not a conspiracy Yes, love it! Well done Team. By not including those links you no longer act as a greater hub of information. Also, you have in effect stopped giving a number of writers the opportunity to contribute and have their work viewed en masse. -To that end I consider the new website to be a thoughtless action Did you have any idea what it meant to some of these people to have their voices heard? I can only agree with eddysachs comments. This is the kind of thing that corporations do so as to reduce the attention on the competitors keeping the contributors restricted to the club maybe AP has been sold surreptitiously to a Corporation part of the deal is not to alert the readership.cept they leak out all over the place.just an honest conjecture speculation.Hmmmmmmm WhatNO comment from the bruised egos of AP??? So sad Edward that you have to reply to yourself. Of course I bet you have to handle a lot of things by yourself. Do you have to pour a beer over your hand to get it drunk in order to get the job done eddy? Answered my own question from below: My bookmarks to posts on the old site DONT work. Good grief. I had a lot of them. Is this permanent? Cant be, right? If so, Thats terrible PR, and terrific loss of great stuff, if so, and so poorly conceived, as well, if true. I would think that would be, either, one of the highest priorities to accomplish when changing, or something that you would be mentioning in high profile way if it wasnt something you were planning to do, way ahead of time, so people might go back and save bookmarked posts articles another way. I sure hope you fix this. J UN-necessary upgrade.. YOU HAVE INTERRUPTED OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING with it.. Chant down Babylon ism schism! It wasnt broken.this is a mere skeleton of what AP used to be I liked the old website as far as the display of stories which were all on one page with the newest one at top of page going down to older ones at bottom. Better for me visually Much Simpler so at least I knew I wasnt missing anything. The new site confuses me. We have now made those changes, stories appear chronologically beginning with newest at the top of the page. Thank you for your comments. As a contributing writer (and voracious reader) of AP for three years, and having read all comments on this post, I most sadly concur with a few posts below. The deletion of external links is and was an ill-advised action. As one commentator phrased it, you used to be the HUB, I am inclined to agree. That I could come on to AP (first), and launch from here to other sites was very convenient. Of course, the operative phrase here is to AP (first), thereby granting that of course I read on AP first, and went to other sites only as time and desire allowed. As noted as well, your colour schematic is no longer unique. You had the perfect page colours that clearly defined AP, much as the golden arches define that purveyor of death food. The addition of You Might Also Like portion is saddening to see here. Those idiotic pictures and topics are anything but activist related. They are designed to draw people down the rabbit hole of oddities, aka misdirection. I wasnt aware the bodily construction of Japanese people constituted news designed to engage mental activity. By so doing, real news and thought provoking, eye-opening insights into the true state of events does not take place at all. You cant wake up by going to sleep. If you could provide a reply to Phils comment, Also, you have in effect stopped giving a number of writers the opportunity to contribute and have their work viewed en masse., I would be grateful. I dont assume he is correct and really dont even know why he would write that, but in the event there is substance to his statement , it would be nice to know. Lastly, in way of negative feedback, is your implementation of Disqus for comments. Disqus is well known to be of globalist origin and operates similar to Face Book. It is a tool whereby they can track, tag and bag individuals if the worst should come to pass. Its always best to post as a guest, which effectively neuters the programs goals as outlined above. Your old comment forum worked perfectly well. On a brighter note, as long as the articles remain true to the founding principles of AP, I will continue to utilize AP as my first foray into alt news. My primary reason to stay at this juncture is due to my respect for Michael Edwards. If hes gone, then so am I. At that point, AP would be just another alt site without distinction. All aside, I am grateful to AP and will remain so. This site, more than any other, has helped lift the blinders from my eyes and has been very kind in posting my articles. Many thanks to you all! Need the news links back ASAP..I will come here less and less over time if they are not put back on the site. Not a threat just a natural progression of how I have handled this type of downgrade in the past. Please do us all a favor and put the news links back. Thanks. You can find them at the top of every page under Resources http://www.activistpost.com/resources Thanks so much for your feedback. Here are some quick points to address a few concerns: 1. Our site was indeed broken and needed this upgrade. The long script caused very slow loading times for most users. 3. Obviously were not graphic designers, so we may run contest for a new logo. We really appreciate your feedback. Please continue to tell us your thoughts. Thank you for responding. Ive been reading AP for about 4.5 yrs and LOVE the site but am not too happy with the new look. I miss links to articles, the unique look of the old site and also where are so many of the old writers? Thank you for the kind words about the appearance today. We are listening. Please refer to my comment above which enumerates the latest changes. We will continue trying to improve. We really appreciate all input. Thanks again. Sorry for the delay. According to the webmaster: All bookmarks leading to AP URLs should still work, Thank you! 