OUR BALLOT IS LIVE: http://new.neopoet.com/community/form/3042

This is our final ballot for the upcoming AEC election. Ballot order was randomized by www.random.org
The election will start on Tuesday, June 27 (though we may open the ballot Monday night for logistical reasons)

A Mean Bee
crypticbard
Seren
scribbler
whitescatter
Race_9togo
Pugilist

On March 12, we will have a one week open nomination period for a new Advocates Election Committee. The election will run between March 22 and March 26.

We've applied a fix to the archive of our previous site (http://archive.neopoet.com). You should now be able to view all poetry posted up through April 7, 2010 (through 3:17 am to be precise). If you have any trouble, please reach out to us on the technical forum (http://new.neopoet.com/forums/technical).

We heard you loud and clear: the sidebar on the left is much too wide.

Rather than just shrink the sidebar, we'd like to try something a little more radical. We understand screen space is at a premium -- why not use it all for poetry? We've taken the left sidebar away completely (at least for now). In it's place is the new "tools" menu up top. You'll see that all menus are now dynamic -- you can hover your mouse over them and they will drop down.

This is a few suggestions I have come up with concerning the site. Right now, the site is minimal and looks nothing like what it will when the official launch happens.

. Whether they can be done or not I don't know.

1) Is there a way to lock to top menu bar so it always remains visible?

2) The left side bar is too wide and if there is a way to lock it in place it would be nice also.

3) Need more room width wise for the posts. Too much unused space.

4) The navigation doesn't seem to be intuitive enough yet..

5) Could use some more color

We figured out the e-mail issue -- the IP address of the temporary server we are using (hosted by Rackspace.com) was on a spam blacklist. Rackspace has helped us take the IP off the blacklist. Some organizations, however, have a delay before they recognize an IP again.

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Update: we are now routing outgoing mail through our Google mail service (the infrastructure that provides @neopoet.com e-mail for site administrators). This appears to be resolved.