Well, today has been a tough day.
The Arizona shooting is sickening and an example of the effect that dangerous rhetoric can have on people, sane or not.
But right now, nearly every diary, FP story and rec listed diary is about the incident, which is understandable. But there's very little new information in any of the diaries even though there a great opportunity for community members to vent, blow off steam, express frustration, anger, and sadness.
For my own part, I found myself wanting to "talk" about other things for a while until at least something new developed. I thought maybe I could check out DK4 to see what's shaking over there and I took some pictures of the front page there and then took some pictures of the front page here just seconds later.
Take a look.
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This is just a comparison of the front pages and how remarkably different they are. I like the "Community spotlight" feature a lot. Lots of good stuff in there. I also like how the recently rec'd section seem to have any diary written that has gotten at least one rec. That's very cool. Nice way to discover some stuff and IMO better than the "recent diary" list we presently have. There must be tons of diaries that get a rec but not enough to end up on the "official rec list". I'm going to really like that feature, i think. Of course there's always the DIARIES link which is basically the same as our recent diaries list.
Then there's the TAGS link which, when clicked shows what's being "talked about" most with a nifty little bar graph.
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And if I want to pick my own tags to find diaries about a topic (say I'm needing some humor today to balance my outrage) there's this:
![Picture 7](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5008/5337599934_537d447d20.jpg)
That'll come in handy for me. I'm sure. Sometimes I need a break but I don't want to leave the site to get it. I like the Dkos Community, warts and all. This will help facilitate that.