If you were a blogger back in the days of olde, you probably remember that the cute little squares that tell you if there are unviewed comments in an entry... were colored orange. Actually, that was a site-wide thing. All the little tags -- you probably don't even pay attention to them -- next to the title of a topic or next to the comment count at the bottom right of a blog entry used to be bright orange, at eye-grabbing contrast against BZPower's light blue background. But BZPower's changed them to blue now, ever since the same forum upgrade that jazzed up everyone's user page to include comments and friends listings and all that junk.

Strangely enough, I've been noticing how different it is without the orange squares. When I was first writing in this blog, I was overjoyed to see that familiar orange dot on the screen to see that someone had actually found something I said interesting enough to comment on. I didn't get a lot of comments then. But now the new blue squares are just boring. It's like they're just there -- they have to tell you there's a new comment, they don't really want to be there and they hate their job, and they just want to blend in and stay out of notice, like ungrateful night guards for a box factory. The orange dudes, on the other hand, were always so full of life and yelled, "Congratulations, someone said something! Someone cares!" So, I'm nostalgic for the old guys, and I wish they would come back.