Some notes after a day of working on the assorted upgrade-related issues here:

• I've made some changes to search, so that it works a bit more like the older version (year added to date display, author column removed, etc.). It's not perfect, but I expect we'll see more improvements in the near future. (I've opened a feature request for better control over search.)
• Search does, however, have a date-related issue right now. If you order results by date, the output is seemingly random. I've opened a bug with the Geeklog team, and it's being investigated.
• Searching for words with special characters, such as Exposé, no longer crashes the search engine.
• Activated a titles-only search -- it's a checkbox on the advanced search page. If you haven't tried it yet, it's quite useful for narrowing down hint results.
• Those who are seeing a narrow side column should now be seeing it at the desired width again.
• Fixed a huge problem with the My Account pages. Basically, no changes were taking, which is a bad thing. This should all be resolved now; please let me know if you see any lingering issues.
• Fixed a large number of character issues. No, not mine, but Geeklog's. I've searched and replaced all of the following: é; smart single and double quotes; …; « and » in text and AppleScript class statements; ¬ in AppleScripts; and em-dashes.

Aside from the search engine issues, the other big problem right now has to do with code snippets in comments and the submission page. It works strangely, but it does basically work -- you'll find your HTML characters get changed to entities in the input box, and they may preview as entities, but they'll publish correctly. I've opened a bug on this. The one exception is any code snippets within angle brackets -- that text will just vanish unless you use the special [code] tags. So please use that tag for any code in your hint. (For the first time here in nearly forever, backslashes will not be eaten, so that's something!)

-rob.