Yeah, I miss having one big OOC thread also, but what to do? Progress... there's no stoppin' it... :p
Oak:
Yes, 1.5 is different.
All my links to everyone's threads in the "Where does YOUR story begin?" thread are now broken. I'll have to clean that up after the current slog-a-thon passes.
There also seems to be a 1000 post limit on threads, such that longer threads disable the "show all" option. I may have to break up and reorganize the OOC thread to deal with that also...
BTW, I believe that all of the links in the "Where does YOUR story begin?" thread have now been repaired successfully. Let me know if there are still any broken ones. :)