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Washington Post article about how faxing is still alive and well in Japan: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-japan-fax-machines-find-a-final-place-to-thrive/2012/06/07/gJQAshFPMV_story.html?wprss=rss_social-world-headlines Read more

Thanks - the notification number issue is a bug. We have a improved system on the back end that should fix it. Read more

Discussions in Kinja are never locked. You may have clicked to a post in the old system (anything before last Thursday)? Those are closed as of right now as we transition between the two systems. Read more

Burner accounts can't embed images or video. Read more

Like Google, we can't tell you what happens inside the magic discussion ranking box. It just happens and we try to make it produce the best results possible. Read more

Also, our site is fairly complex and may not work perfectly on your phone. It should work ok on iOS4 and 5 devices and newer Android phones but no guarantees on older stuff. Read more

What phone are you using? Can you upload a screenshot of the issue here? Read more

Yep - no text = no post. But we'll fixing that so it warns you. Read more

Can you reach out to [email protected], our help desk? They'll be able to help you out. Read more

We don't really support kindle fire because barely anyone uses that specific operating system system and device. It accounts for less than .05% of Jezebel's traffic. If you use your desktop, you should see everything ok. Read more

Thanks for the feedback. We considering features very similar to what you've suggested with the goal being to give greater ownership and control to a discussion owner. Read more

One of the goals of Kinja is to not give the lime light to trolls. The system favors insightful discussion as opposed to knee jerk reactions. Our goal is to foster good discussion. We'll do everything possible to not draw attention to trolls. Keep in mind that the system is relatively new, so we'll be making… Read more

Hi megatronic - thanks for the feedback. The issue with the inbox is a bug - we'll have it fixed today or tomorrow. Also, for the notifications, we're improving the behind-the-scenes system which should make it more reliable and accurate. Read more

We're designing Kinja such that good replies with insightful conversation will always bubble up over trolls with lots of knee jerk responses. The system is new so it may take a little while to dial things in, but once we do, trolls should be far less of a problem. Read more

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Powwow was the internal working name. Kinja is the real name. Apologies for the confusion. Read more

And I'm not going to remove replies from this thread simply out of disagreement. However, if people have nothing to contribute to the conversation and are trolls, then yes, their replies will be dismissed. Read more

Thanks! You'll see some "hierarchy" changes in the future, regarding commenting on the article. We want comment replies to become more like posts, where everyone has a say. Read more

No, everyone can comment now. Read more

We'll be improving the >> drop down. You'll get your wish! The horizontal scrollability is a bug. We used to have an All view but the goal of the new system is to focus on good discussions. We are building this more for the casual reader than for the avid reader. Also, keep in mind that it just launched. We… Read more