OK, I made the switch

OK ... I made the big switch from the old template to the new and improved template. It makes me very nervous. I lost ALL my old comments because of what appears to be a very silly move by the people hosting my comments. It almost feels like I'm starting from scratch. Weird.

I just realized I lost my stat tracker too. I know they'd wanted me to upgrade, but I would have lost five years worth of stats. Bittersweet. (Hey, Blogger, why don't you track my stats?)

New comment box

Well, it looks like Haloscan upgraded the comment box and I'm just not too sure how I like it. This really puts me at a decision. See, back when I first started this blog Blogger didn't have comments built in (imagine that!) -- so you had to use another comment source. Haloscan was a great, free comment host. I tried to upgrade to the new Blogger template a while back, but couldn't get Haloscan to work with it and reverted back to the old template (same look, fewer features). The real issue is that, if I switch over, I lose all my old comments. I like to be able to go back and read the old comments, especially at the very beginning when cats with blogs was a fledgling thing and I was just meeting people (before there was a Cat Blogosphere to bring us all together). What to do, what to do? I the meantime, please tolerate the new comment window, and remember to do the drop-down and sign in so I see a name, and not Guest. Thanks!