I had heard about the redesign of the site and knew it would come, but it was a surprise to see it last Thursday. While I thought that it was too white and bright, by now I have gotten used to it. The big problems have been with the submissions and the blogs. I had a submission that was put in before the redesign was launched, and when it was, I could not accept or deny it for almost a week. These problems have been, and are being, fixed as fast as possible by the technical staff. With all the problems, there have been the inevitable complaints and whining from users like:

The site is too white!

I can't submit!

Bring back the old design!

Etcetera, etcetera. On several blogs and forum posts, I have heard of a potential boycott on Thursday, September 30. The purpose of this is to let the people running the site know that it is the users that make it popular and that if they don't come, then it would send a message that we don't like the way you are running things and that it would be better to go back to the old way. Well, my friends, I can tell you that I will not be participating in this boycott. There are several reasons for this:

1. A boycott of something usually never accomplishes what it wants. There are usually never enough people participating and it seems like a waste of time.

2. This boycott is under the assumption that all these things were done on purpose just so that the people running the site could get their jollies or some such reason. I may be naive, but I do not believe that. Most of the mods here began as contributors like us, so I don't think that they wanted to screw up the site for themselves.

3. This seems like more of a protest over CBS buying CNET, the parent of TV.com. I personally don't care either way, just as long as CBS lets it alone and lets CNET run it. (Although I haven't seen any ads for other network shows since the redesign.)

4. Besides, I wouldn't be surprised if everything(or most everything) gets fixed by the time the boycott date comes up.

Personally, I'd rather they fix Movietome. As the editor of Mystery Science Theater 3000, I'd like to make submissions to the movies seen on that show, but submissions are turned off and they don't know when they could be turned back on. In any event, I won't be participating. I do wish you all luck and hope that everything gets fixed soon, if it isn't already.