Okay, I'm getting weird stuff on the words "Message Center" on the header of the, uh, Message Center page. I'm getting it in two windows, and when I "reload." It's solid black squares on the letters with horizontal lines across the spaces between letters.

Whoa. And now it's gone. Hallucination? You be the judge. I just report 'em.

Could be a browser memory issue. You might think about rebooting your machine before something really nasty happens, like a freeze up.

Minor point, but could we insert a t br in the Music thread slug at some point? It's the longest line of text on the page by a long shot, and makes for reading weirdness.

Music thread slug

You mean on the front page / message center? I'm unclear on where a break would go and how it would help.

Lots of those thread slugs wrap on my browser/font-size/window-size anyway. I don't get how Music is any different.

Yup, it's supposed to wrap (edit: and it does in Mozilla).

It is twice as long as any other slug, though.

I think the basic principles of usability tell us that to let it wrap is better than to force it to break at a point which may look weird to some users.

[edited because trying to demonstrate the principle with the actual string was too hard]

If you put a break after Sondheim, for instance, there'll always be a user for whom "Sondheim" has wrapped onto the next line.

So it'll be like

...burns, mixtapes, club hits, and [wrap]
Sondheim [forced break]
Sarah Vaughan to the Mekons...

Lameo girl wondering if the HTML in headers extends to making live links. Don't want to break anything.

Do you mean the thread headers? You can put live links in the headers.

edit: I did it in some thread or another.

Yeah, but another basic principle of usability is "overly-long lines of text are hard to read." Can we just force those lines to be shorter somehow?