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Late in the European Night, a new baby Wonkette was born. It is, of course, terribly deformed. But modern technical medicine can turn it into a beautiful, vulgar little swan. Your editors can’t really put up posts right now, due to a kind of monster called a “Domain Name Server.” (Your editor is sending this from a crashed spaceship.) Luckily there is no politics this morning, hurray! TIPS: If this page looks extra screwy, go to Tools or Privacy or whatever your browser has, and EMPTY THE CACHE, and EMPTY THE DOWNLOAD HISTORY, and then restart your browser and try again. Thank you, and next week you won’t remember any of this. (We put a roofie in your coffee.)

Hello Peoples! Remember that whole thing about your Wonkette getting a new home, and all that? Well, it is still true — and tonight, Wonkette will suffer the miracle of transmigration. What will this mean? How will you, the Wonkette Community, be affected? Will it hurt “down there”? Find out, after the jump.

1. The site itself should look basically the same, and should function in basically the same way, only better.

2. But it’s a website, on the Internet, which is a computer-based system, so of course some stuff is going to be way fucked up. If you see something weird, do us a favor and check again in an hour. If it’s still weird/broken, please sends us a note to the tips@ address with the subject line WONKETTE ES BROKED REPORT. (And please include your browser, browser version and operating system.)

3. YOU MAY HAVE TO RE-REGISTER TO COMMENT. We don’t know, for sure. But we warned you, long ago, last month (?), that we would require a new comment system, as the old comment system is actually just our little corner of the massive, billion-user Gawker Media commenting system, and it was impossible to take that with us, plus it does not belong to us. It is Gawker’s. (So you will still have your Gawker commenter logins/post pages/etc.) We are trying to move over as many of the old comments as possible. Hopefully they’ll be there tomorrow. If you have a God, pray to it.

4. That’s about it. Moving a five-year-old politics site with tens of thousands of individual posts going back to when Howard Dean was running for president, that is no easy task. The very good people at Pressflex and BlogAds are making this happen, with the very nice help of the fine peoples at Gawker. Thank you Henry, Miklos, Gaby, Nick, Gabriela, Tom, Levente, Scott, Zoltan, Erin, Zsolt, Jory, Christopher ….

5. And thank you nice people for reading, and commenting, and forwarding, and tipping, and for your Patience during the move, the end.

IMPROMPTU EDITORIAL SIESTA UNFORTUNATELY OVER: Your Wonkette was just down for a couple of hours, because of either polar bear protests or the unreliable nature of the Internet. They were the best couple of hours of all time. But now, we type again! Thanks for tuning in.

WE ARE SORRY THEY BROKE OUR SITE: Nobody will tell us why, or what they’re doing, but obviously the site is screwy for a lot of you. Sometimes it helps to close this site, empty your “Internet Cache,” and reload/refresh the page. Sorry!

WE’RE SORRY; HAVE SOME HOPE LIKE WHAT’S HIS NAME! There’s something wrong with the comments. Technical people are thinking about this problem right now, and possibly “fixing code” or whatever. Hang in there! We know it’s Friday and you’ve got so much to say to us, instead of your boring co-workers.

Due to obscure technical problems we can’t preview any posts before we post them. So please bear with us if there are occasional HTML problems or incorrect pictures or things of that ilk today. More than usual even.

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