I’m not thinking of anything specific. This is just a general call for readers to voice their opinions on Word Riot and let me know what you like or don’t like about it.

I’ve been reluctant in the past to do major site overhauls, design or technical, because I sort of like the idea of Word Riot as the (dirty) old man of the lit scene. I want us to remain dependable and ever-present. I sort of like that our layout is a cobbled-out version of whatever HTML and PHP I’ve pieced together over the years. I think it makes the site quirky and unique but also familiar.

I’ve been wondering if it makes more sense to have the site based on a WordPress platform rather than the Jackie-half-brained content management system. But part of the joy that is my crappy hand-code-and-paste-into-the-MySQL-database work flow is I can get my hands dirty and make sure formatting is exactly how I want it to be.

I also wouldn’t want the old URLs to change since authors have their pieces linked on their own sites and the URLs have authority in Google for being up so long yada yada… I think having some sort of hybrid platform is going to be where WR is headed.

</existential lit editor crisis>

Anyway, I’d love to hear any and all thoughts on Word Riot, what we’re doing right, what we should be doing right but aren’t, etc. Seriously. Lay it on me.