Good news, everyone! Cheezburger is getting a makeover. When you visit Cheezburger on Monday, February 13th, you’ll notice that things are a little different. Here’s the scoop:
– Easier and more dynamic sharing! Our drop-down “Post to My Cheezburger” button (shown below) will give you the option of adding a meme, fail or LOL to your “Favorites” or to one of your Cheezburger Sites. We will also have better support for Facebook.
– There temporarily won’t be voting on the front page (vote pages will remain unchanged) as we work on creating a brand new and 20% awesomer voting system. For now, we encourage you to “Post It to Your Cheezburger,” which includes adding a LOL to your “Favorites” and/or one of your Cheezburger Sites, or share it with your friends on Facebook.
I have no interest whatsoever in sharing my lols or anybody else’s lols on Facebook. I try to avoid Facebook as much as humanly possible. If you had to do a makeover, a more efficient way of flagging the abusive or plagiarized lols would have been a far more useful feature.
Agreed, I avoid Facebook too. This is my social site, not Facebook. Also, how do we flag inappropriate content now? I run across major naughties all the time and now there is no way to flag them. And, how do we look at other captions for the pic’s? That link is gone too. Really don’t like the direction ICHC is going….take away collectibles, take away inappropriate button, take away other captions link, take away voting, what’s next?
i totally agree. the use of facebook is completely unnecassary…
Thanks for the feedback! The new layout has been created to focus more on the content. We have kept the Facebook share button because it is the social media tool that gets used the most. We also are trying to make the content easy to favorite and post to your own Cheezburger site. While on the front page, if you click the title, you will be directed to the single post page. This still has the email feature, the link to report offensive content, the ability to recaption, etc. Let us know if you have any further questions by emailing us at contactus@cheezburger.com or post your ideas in the feedback forums by clicking on the “Feedback & Support” widget -Will
Why is there a ‘faceboor’ icon on the ‘post to my cheezburger’ button? It looks like I am trying to post to faceboor when it has it’s own button.
I prefer the traditional voting option instead of sharing lols on facebook (agree with klea: I also avoid facebbok as humanly possible!).
I’m very disapointed with the new layout (based on A Valentine From Cheezburger to You!), for god sake: not change things when they are perfect as they are
Things never be the same again: Chezburguer network will die on 13th February. See a lol will make bunnys and people cry!
We are working on creating a better voting system, and we’ll have it available in the near future. Thanks for sharing your feedback! -Will
Great new feature on Demotivationals guys. Seriously, putting the links to your other sites at the BOTTOM of the page and then making the page an endless scrolling page so you NEVER get a chance to click on any links… What an awesome new feature!……
Hi there! Thanks for sharing your feedback! We are only testing this feature out right now, and the Cheez Devs are looking at ways to address the footer directory. This feature has not been fully implemented. In the meantime, please use the directory at the top of the page. We apologize for the inconvenience! -Will
Well, you announced this (kinda) last week, and the announcement “LOL” received the lowest voting in the history of ICHC. And the hundreds of comments all demanded you not do this… so you, of coarse, do it. I’ve been calling for weeks to remove the Facebook posting buttons, as have many others, and now we see you respect our wishes by encouraging us to post them to Facebook and use the lame Cheezeburger Sites- a feature you invited me to beta test, and which I quickly lost interest in. I visit the Front Page to vote for and favor FP winners that I like– I only favor 1 in 10 LOLs I like, but vote for all that I like. I weep for anyone who gets an FP in the next few (days? weeks?) that the voting is “temporarily” unavailable– if the voting was always part of the “make-over”, why are you frustrating and saddening loyal followers of ICHC by removing it at all?
Hi there Greencliff. Sorry to hear you are so upset. We are still testing out the new layout, and we truly believe that it will be beneficial to the Cheezburger community overall. We know that change can be difficult, and we are hear to listen to your feedback. We have had a lot of positive input about Cheezburger sites as well as the new streamlined layout. It’s cleaner, it allows the sites to load faster, and you can still access other features by clicking on the title. We are working on a new voting system for the front page. Thanks again for your feedback. -Will
It’s actually loading more slowly for me.
And BTW, I have personal experience in how you “fix” things on the site… For two months, I have not been getting email duplicates of friends’ dashboard messages, notices of collectible gifting (while they still happened), or notifications of my LOLs winning FP— A total of 7 winnings that I had to learn about from friends’ messaging me! I’ve sent four messages to cheeze central and one dashboard message to Tofu about this, and the problem still exists. With this as an example, are you sure you know how to do a proper “make-over”?
We recently fixed the email notification issue. We are sorry to hear it isn’t fixed for you! We will check your email address activity with our system that manages these notifications. -Will
Just sent you an email about the email notifications. Your email provider’s server is rejecting our emails because it thinks they are spam. You will need to contact your email provider for a solution.
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Like Klea and Sad but True ( I prefer the traditional voting option instead of sharing lols on face book (agree with klea: I also avoid facebbok as humanly possible!). Really Mean this as my daughter in laws family just sit on face book nearly all day. To this was great here people, not on F book.
I agree with cat_hiiiss. that was most unfortunate. I actually think the new font on the daily what is very hard to read and don’t enjoy it anymore. the pages have gotten more bland, square, and less colorful. oh what a world, what a world. Soon everything will be grey…almost to the tune of this page.
Good to see that you’re going to screw up the site . . Hope you’re getting good $$ for doing it . .
You’re going to see fail – Facebook users are far too cool to come here . .
Why is the lol’maker and picture contributer sooooo small?? it’s hard to find out who did the lol and that’s the most fun of the sites -seeing your friends on the FPs. Even the pics seem smaller in the new formats. I know you say you’ll be adding the votes back in, but now we can’t even see how the pic is doing votewise/fav-wise.
It was nice knowing you, but this is good-bye! I’m going to another site that doesn’t keep changing things.
I refuse to use facebook, for MANY reasons, so all this ‘easier to share’ rubbish is a pile of worthless codswallop. You should have left well enough alone. Things were fine the way they were. Very disappointed…
I agree wholeheartedly with Purrfect. I have not used Facebook and never will. The new changes are definitely codswallop. I’m definitely moving toward dissociating myself with this site.
Can we not send lols to friends via email any more? I used that feature all the time. Not everyone uses facebook and many of the people who do cannot view facebook at work = no more lolcats at work?
i agree – bring back the email option. i need it :/
I forward a few lol’s and some pic from others the cheezburger network. Most of the people (myself included) dont use Facebook but once a month if that. Please bring back easier emailing of the pics.
Ok, I have tried it. And what what you can’t tell by looking at the little picture above:
You can BARELY tell who made the lol (TEENY TINE grey print- and they deserve better than that) and I really can’t tell who took the original picture. I did notice that a couple say ‘Via’… ??? If that is who took the picture, ‘Via’ doesn’t really say that to me that says ‘came through another place’. You folks use ‘via’ a lot in the gifs and vids pages, and I have always wondered why you guys don’t give credit to the person who made the video instead of ‘where it came through’. If I actually made a photograph and it was used here it didn’t come ‘via’ me. Maybe “Photo Source” or just “Source” will convey this better. It will accurately say where the picture came from (if someone has put that info in when uploading to the site) if it is a site as well as if it is an original picture from a person.
There is a TON of wasted space around each lol creating a lot of scrolling. The buttons at the top gave a much more compact presentation (LESS scrolling to get to them)
If the Mod gets verbose or there is an announcement under the lol (*like the explanation as to ‘why are there no voting buttons?’) the “Favorite button” gets moved down… and down… and down…so you have to scroll down past the announcement (which btw is on EVERY one right now and this, I presume will happen every time you have a feature change) to fav. something. This is not helped by the new (and very cold looking ) huge font for the Mod comments. I prefer the fav buttons at the top or at least above the Mod comment.
Speaking of Comments… it is even harder to tell where the comments are. And when you get there it (very happily) reverts back to the old format (YAY!) and more comfortable font but what is the little word balloon in each comment that says “Says:” in ‘clickable blue’ there for? It isn’t really clickable? Or at least I clicked on it and it didn’t do anything.
oh. Also. When you put your pointer (can’t think of what it is called right now) over the “Post to my Cheezburger” button (formerly “Favorite”) the whole box lights up and the drop down appears but when you move to the “Favorites”, or, indeed, any of the other choices you have to scoot it over the word itself (a lot of little maneuvering for something that was a simple ‘put the pointer over the box anywhere and click’ before) or nothing happens.
Where is the button for email sharing? Not everyone wants to share via facebook.
I want my favorite button back!
Pretty much in agreement with the points made by Klea, Sad but True and Cat_Hiiss. I NEVER want to link to Facebook (pretty sure there’s something ironic about the people who brought us Failbook promoting Facebook – just sayin…). The Twitter link was useful to me but the world won’t stop without it. The layout of your sites wasn’t broke – why you even tryin to fix?
The Cheezburger sites have been a source of great enjoyment for me and my family. Please reconsider this change.
Issue #1 – The comment page:
My habbit was to open up lols I wanted to comment on as a new tab so that all I had to do to continue viewing was go back to the main page tab. I didn’t care if the main page updated or not and while I don’t normally hang around to see if anyone replied, this allowed me to keep browsing while refreshing the comments on a previous lol to see if anyone did.
But now this new comment button (which is not as easy to find as you might think, mind you) does not let you open a new tab when right clicking. It’s annoying!
I do post lols to Facebook if I think my friends would be amused, but for videos I always go to the source.
Haven’t checked out all the new features, but so far they are not changes for the better >:(
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Uh…where’s the submit button here???
Ok, figured it out.
If anyone else did the extra tabs thing like I did here is how to do it:
Right click on the title of the lol, not the little comment speech baloon.
I don’t use facebook and never will so what will you be taking from your regular visitors. Why can’t you leave it alone. You already changed it despite many protests yet you change it again. I don’t like the way it looks – sort of generic. ICHC is a very entertaining site and I, like many others, will not boycott the site. We will just complain here and our comments will be ignored because we continue to use the site.
Please put it back and quit messing with it.
what have you done with the comments section???!!!
I prefer to email pictures rather than use facebook. Is that function gone for ever?
Do not like the new look at all…if it ain’t broke..don’t fix it!
I TOTALLY agree with Klea!!! OMG, not everyone has facebook!! bring back the email button!!
Is email so obsolete that we can no longer mail lols to our friends NOT on facebook.
Like Klea, I try to stay away from Friendface, if I want to share, I use email.
I guess I’ll go back under my rock.
PLEASE BRING BACK THE EMAIL BUTTON.
No one in my family is on Facebook. I do not want a cheeseburger site just to “share” the LoLs I find funny. Besides, what my sister-in-law finds funny is different from my mom.
Please for the love of all that is holy, I do not care about the voting, just bring back the email button!!!!! It worked, and it worked well.
Thanks.
The new look makes it difficult to quickly and easily distinguish the LOLs from everything else on the page. While I appreciate a site that works to make itself better, this new look is not as clean or easily enjoyable.
I have no interest whatsoever in sharing my lols or anybody else’s lols on Facebook. I try to avoid Facebook as much as humanly possible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keep remain HUMANZZZ!!!!
i would be happy if icanhascheezburger.com (which is dedicated to CATS) would constrain itself to these animals. the dogs belong on icanhashotdog.com, and as for the other animals, while they are sometimes cute, they do not belong on the cat website.
I agree, the kittehs are the only animals that belong here. Other animals are cute, but belong on the other sites.
I also agree with the many others who posted saying:
voting: want! (why take it down before the new voting system was ready?)
facebook: NO WANT!
Email sharing: want!
For cheezedevs to do their testing in a subsection of the site or by invitation like google+ did: want!
Agreed! With all of these hard to swallow changes, why not refocus on what made ICHC such a success… a focus on CATS!
ITA!!! I like dogs and squirrels and hamsters and otters, but I’m here because I love CATS. You seem to be losing sight of the fact that your public are CAT-PEOPLE and instead are hyped on cross-branding to the goggies. Lately it seems to be maybe 60% cats and 40% other animals, mostly dogs. If I wanted dogs, I’d be on ICHHD.
While I am on Facebook a bit, I don’t want to bring ICHC into it. One person Likes something and suddenly, it’s clogging up the site when ten others Share it. These are two different social media sites, keep them separate.
I don’t do facebook, either. I guess it’s been nice….
but(!) I hate facebook!!
Why would you take the link away? How can I send comments to my friends? I’m on Tagged all the time & my friends Love my comments that I get from lol. I’m not changing to Facebook & lose my friends. How Dare You Assume I Would!
we don’t have facebook….need to be able to email cheezburgers!!!!!!!!!
Hey everyone, thanks for taking the time to share your input with us. We are still testing this new layout, and the door is always open for improvements. We are taking the main themes and issues that we have read here in the comments and sharing them with Dr. Tiny Cat and his team of developers. Please feel free to share additional feedback with us here: http://feedback.cheezburger.com/
What has happened to “Recaption this”?? I’d listen to your loyal fans… ditch the Facebook nonsense.
I do have to echo most of the above. I don’t like the new layout at all. Please reconsider the changes that you make, rather than lose a lot of previously extremely loyal followers.
Thank you.
P.S. an easier way than the email link for reporting abuse or really horrible inappropriate pictures would be great.
I would like to share on via email or Twitter. Despite rumors to the contrary, the entire interwebz is not found on Facebook. And I started an account just to say that. Thank you and Goodbye.
Reply? I’m not replying, I’m commenting. I agree with most of the comments I’ve seen here. I do not do Facebook (and doubt I’ll ever use any social networking site). I’ve not been happy with the changes you’ve made previously, and I REALLY don’t like these new ones. I typically set aside an amount of time to check out all my favorite cheezburger sites, but your “improvements” will make my browsing more time-consuming and I don’t appreciate that. It seems you are trying to make cheezburger a members-only club, and I don’t appreciate that, either. Are you making all these changes because they’ll generate more income for you? That may bite you in the end if you alienate many of your regular users. I’ve often credited cheezburger in my email blasts and encouraged people to visit; but if it becomes so burdensome to use your sites, I’ll no longer be your cheerleader and will spend much less time on the sites myself. Oh well, OTOH, I guess I’ll get a lot more work done.
Add me to the list of those who DO NOT WANT facebook integrated into every site there is. Why do more and more sites throw their self respect out the window and encourage people to go use facebook instead of staying on their site. Are they paying you, or is it laziness to maintain your own features. Will we have to login with a fb account to post comments next? (some sites are doing that!) Why bother fighting SOPA etc, since facebook will soon encompass the entirety of the intertubes. RESIST the facebook, cheezurger! RESIST!
Please add the Email option back ASAP! The current limited options for sharing are not what we prefer. Thanks!
Please bring back the email link to the front page! I’ve heard now that if you click the lol you can find the email in another page but it was SSSOOOO much easier the old way. I for one check f-book maybe once every third month or so just to keep up with a few friends. I don’t allow ANYTHING to access my f-book wall/account like all the spam that wants permissions to post crap there. LOLCAT was awesome (note: WAS), in that I could come here, laugh until I’d pee, then share the funny with family and friends with few quick emails.
I know that f-book probably = money and hey, I want this site to keep going and make the founders some cash….I’m fine with that. The layout? Meh I can get over it I guess but could you please just move the email link back to the front? That would make it at least much more bearable for me!!
Thanks!!
Please put the email option back – I really liked sharing the lols plus showing interested people some inspirational stuff from WIN like the natural swimming pools video. I am not on Facebook and do not want to be.
i miss the fav buttons… i dont like the new look
PLEASE tell Dr. TinyCat (or perhaps it is BASEMENT cat ??) that I don’t do faceblot … neither do my friends.
WE DO, however, email. I WANT EMAIL !! This whole thing you have done is giving me a rash !! JUST STOP
this nonsense and leave our cheez the heck alone !!
I don’t understand … I do NOTHING in moderation !!
guise you know you can copy and paste an image link into an email, right? or save and attach? it’s pretty easy – and works on every website!
Please DON’ T make Facebook a requirement for participating with CHEEZBURGER. I won’t do it! But it will break my heart.
I don’t like not being able to email cheezburgers to friends. Did Zuckerberg pay you off to limit sharing only on Facebook? I don’t seem to be the only one not happy with this. It will keep me from using your family of sites.
Pleez returnz teh opshun 2 e-mail frenz wif kitteh pikshurs.
I agree with everyone who said that the site was not broken. It was great & there was no need to change. The voting was easy to use & obvious to see. I seriously doubt your programmers were unable to have voting present on any format, however temporary, of your site for more than a few seconds, so it must have intentionally been disabled.
I am in agreement with ALL HERE. I DO NOT LIVE ON FACEBOOK. I find it a complete waste of time. I am a business person who works from home and can enjoy making myself smile looking at LOL’s first thing in the morning, but will not waste my time Facebooking. Til now, this has been an enjoyable website that I looked at every day — isn’t that what you want for your advertisers?????? You’re taking away all that makes this website worthwhile. I suggest you listen to your viewers and heed the advice or you’re going to lose out big time. BTW, apparently, you’ve taken away all the crappy ads that we had to watch on the videos, so KUDOS for that.
I don’t understand why you are making these changes when the people who visit the website don’t want them. I guess I’ll be looking for cute cat pictures on Google images instead of here.
I agree with others who say you’ve taken away what was charming about the website.
You suck.
The one change that really irks me the most is why the voting system was removed in the first place. Did one of your advertisers throw a hissy fit when one of their ads was voted so low?
Overall, I hate the new look.
Also forgot to mention, this isn’t the first time Cheezburger made some changes that bothered me. I think merging sites like Acting Like Animals, Friends of Irony, and Probably Bad News were big mistakes. I liked it better when everything was separate.
I agree about the new layout; it’s more inconvenient as you cant access many of the features unless you click on the link to the lol’s page. The new font is annoying too, as it’s smaller and so harder to read (the kerning’s not so great either). Overall, the new look is more clinical and cut while one of the reasons I like(d?) the site was the cute and funny lols and pictures combined with the friendly and like-minded communities (complemented by the cuddly graphics and easy-to-get-to-grips-with layout). I did like the integration with KnowYourMeme, but these new changes are now alienating your current audience.
Thanks for all the feedback everyone! We appreciate how passionate you are about Cheezburger. We love sharing funnies and want to do so in the best possible ways. You all have given us lots of great input, and we promise to evaluate it when moving forward with the new layout. -Will
(Disclaimer in case someone has already mentioned this: I was going to read all the comments, really I was…but I gave up partway. “TL;DR”)
Senor DD81…whoever is doing your web design has eyes that are a darn sight better than mine. I have trouble reading *every* page element on the redesigned home page, with particular emphasis on the lol author and comment link. (Tiny!) Even the font on this page is small and faint, and I don’t think it’s my monitor.
Please hire older web designers!
…or whatever it is you need to do to make this site legible again for older eyes Thanks.
PS Agree with everyone else – Facebook is just *in*the*way*.
Dollydally81, thank you for being the smiling face of cheeze central, blithely ignoring all of the negative commentary and cheerfully praising the new format as if everyone is happy with it. And thank you for looking into my email notification problem in an expedient way only after I made a very public rant about it. Yes, I will see why earthlink thinks your email notifications are spam- ironic, given that the actual spam from the cheeze store has no problem getting through. As to the new format, I will no longer visit the Front Page as long as it is IN this format. The voting button removal was bad enough, but to have the credit for the LOL maker virtually invisible is insulting. Who do you think comes up with your content and keeps this site going? You have obviously been bought out by Facebook, or hope to be; no one will buy any denials about that as long as you so blatantly try to force people to use it… BTW, I’m glad to see I have another FP, but I only knew about it because it was on the thumbnail for the Pundit page at the bottom of the ICHC front page (seen during my last for now visit). Probably none of my peeps have congratulated me about it because they couldn’t see my name.
My biggest issue is the avatar size as I truly have to squint to see it. The FB button does not interfere with my enjoyment or faving of the LOL. Because of all the negative comments I expected hardly anyone to be using it. A lot do. I was blessed with an FP today and was very pleased that 182 peeps liked it enough to Share it. For younger peeps, FB is an integral part of their lives and they will use it. Since a lot of peeps appeared to like and use the emil feature I would recommend you reincorporate that back into the FP. Faving is actually quicker know than before where I had to weait several seconds for the page to cycle back to the LOL. For those that have My Sites, loading an LOL is much easier than before when u had to fave it, go into ur faves and open it and then save to a my site. I am curious as to how vo
That change is most unwanted. If I see an entry I want to tell others that look at that entry how good it is. I don’t want to clutter my favorites, or spam it on Facebook/twitter/etc…
I usually open a new tab to look at individual comments, but now the Comment button does not have a link, you most press it and move from the main view into the entry. I like to browse the site for nice entries, open all the entries I like in a new tab for later reading. Now I can’t do that, and it just causes me to look at fewer pages and waste my time waiting for the main page to reload every time. Less convenient, and discourage me for looking at more pages
With this change and cancelation of the Collectible program it seems you are trying to limit the number of page views this site get, which seems odd.
Oh, just figure it out (open a new tab from the entry title), but it was not intuitive. Voting from the main page should be re-added (or else how do you flag an entry that sucks? By putting it on your fav?).
Do not have a facebook account, expect to live my entire life without a facebook account, no matter how many websites and newspapers it means I cannot post comments on. Would certainly prefer Cheezburger not link everything to facebook, since I’ve enjoyed the LOLs since 2007…..and want to continue to enjoy them.
Did Facebook buy out Cheezburger? That’s the only reason I can think of for why the site is so slavishly devoted to it now. Either that, or some exec with a bloated salary trying to justify their existence by constantly making changes no one asked for and no one likes.
I have a FB account & look at it one in awhile. But I don’t feel any need or desire incorporate that into every facet of my life.
Why is it so unthinkable to just show funny pix that people can share or comment on? Who thought it was necessary or desirable to shove “social networking” down our throats?
This is one vote NO to the Facebook idea.
Why fix what is not broke?
I don’t like Faceboor either (I have no fb account… don’t want one), but I do understand the need for a button for the children that are coming into the cheeze. I don’t think it needs it to be a HUGE feature. How about we shrink the size of the Faceboor button to that dinky size in grey of the credits and comments and enlarge the: “LOL BY” button to the current size of the faceboor button? The Email function, btw, is still on the comments page (rather inconveniently) of an lol (for those who are paniking about it) in the same place it has always been.
We are being told that the voting buttons will be back in the “near future”, but HOW near is the near future? (A week, a month, six months)?
I for one would just like to say, I have no problem with the changes. I didn’t use most of the features, and I still won’t use most of them. But, once voting is back, as far as I am concerned, everything I like will be right there for me to use. Seriously, it’s not the end of the world, ppl. It’s just change. The links to FB have always been there, anyway. If you don’t use FB, just do what I do and don’t use the link.
Hate facebook. Hate being pushed towards using it, like a sheep.
We are not sheeple. We like cheeseburgers. And kittehs. Please revert. KTHXBAI.
I understand you’re trying to update your site and make it better for your faithful followers, and while I may not like all of the changes, I do appreciate that you’re trying to make improvements for our benefit. Also, I like the Facebook button.
i guess i’ll just have to get used to the new style…*sigh* i always hate it at first, i guess this is what i get for not going on the site for a long time…. *sigh* but i really love kittehs!!!!
Facebook=fail.
New layout=fail.
Everything=fail.
Due to these preposterous changes, I regret to inform you I will no longer be visiting here…
(Translation: SO LONG, SUCKERS!)
While I don’t care about the option to e-mail lol’s, I would like it if you bring back the voting to the front page! I want to express my like or dislike on the front page, and there are just a few pages where I also visit the voting page.
Also the comment button is WAY too small.
When did Ben change his last name to Zuckerberg?
I guess I’ll not be visiting the home pages any more – too hard to read, too long to load. Golly, though, I sure do like the new bork fayse comment feature in the profile LOLz! Not.
I, too, am quite unhappy about the changes. I do not want what I’m doing on ICHC to be linked anywhere else….I think this is the classic divide between those who want the world to know where they are and what they’re doing (both in RL and on the internet and having it all connected), and those who are still struggling to have some control over their on-line privacy. I do NOT want any website, including yours, advertising to other websites where I am and what I’m saying there. I also am unhappy about losing the blue link in the comments to my carefully-crafted ICHC profile. Since I’ve seen Ben’s comments indicating that users are clamoring for this type of connectivity, especially to FaceBORG, I guess this is another site I will just cease visiting. It seems the concerns that the current commenters and LOL builders have been expressing don’t matter to you in your drive to get expanded mentions on Facebook. From a business case, maybe that’s great for you, but it’s pretty sucky for us.
Way to go..you’ve managed to totally p**s off the majority of your long-term faithful commenters and LOLmakers. I don’t believe you care one jot, but I want to say my bit anyway…
the cheezpeeps have built up over the years a place where people can come and be silly, funny and clever, chat to like-minded folk and enjoy the cute cats. All are welcome in our inclusive community. Out of it have come big laughs, life-long friendships, life-partners even, and an extended network of support for the less fun times in life. These are intelligent, mature people with genuine concerns about privacy and the right to choose, and your new Beta, the path of association with facebook and changes to the way comments are made and LOL published, will I fear be the final nail in the coffin for the cheezland we know and love. Well done Cheezburger.