Remember all those people you used to cap with back in the golden age of Caption This!? Are you one of those cappers we used to caption with at CT? Well, all day Friday July 20th you and or they are invited to cap like it’s 1999 here at Inventing Situations. Well, not like it was 1999 at IS, because there was no IS in ‘99, more like it was ‘99 at CT!, except you’ll have to do it at IS, since there is no CT any more. Except in our hearts, where it will live forever. If you know some cappers who’ve been hiding themselves, be sure to spread the word to them.

The gala’s going to start right around midnight (eastern) and we hope it’ll go until midnight or so. Like all day. Or even more. You can even help plan the schedule by requesting items via our catalog. And of course, there’ll be surprises thrown in during the gaps.

While we don’t have an official guest list, but names like Humoriste, JD1036, Jazzsoda and/or Hippie, jondapicam, JoeCrow, empressv, Mustang, Datazoid1701, ragbot, Steve_Reeves, chilwil, ABServo, flowbear, GersonK, rickubis, tinaw, Generik, GizM, UnReality, UpSky2, Zee, and WEIRD_1 are rumored to appear. And maybe the cappers behind the names too. If you plan on coming, why not leave a comment so your other friends will know when to expect you? Thanks to the folks at the Cappers egroup for inspiring this whole craziness. Keep circulating the tapes!

You may have noticed that the gallery is arranged a little differently now. Instead of all the captions for a given grab being clustered together, the newest captions show up on top, regardless of their image. I think this makes more sense with a lot of the changes I’ve been making lately, like the ability to cap any image in the main gallery or the favorites gallery by clicking on it, and the way the fancy auto-refresh gallery needed a whole lot of pointless work if I was going to make it keep the old sort style. But, if you’re like me and you’ve been capping with the image sort for over ten years, this may be a tough change to get used to and if you really prefer the old style, just click the sort by image link over the captions and you can get the old style back for the manual refresh version of gallery.

I’ve also broken down and sort of given in to popular demand on the favorites gallery. You can now vote for as many captions as you like, but to satisfy me elitist leanings, the favorites gallery will only display the 18 most popular captions. I kind of feel like I should have figured that out sooner.

You might have noticed thumbs sticking up over the captions. They’re not part of my Fonzie obsession, they are instead proof that I’ve officially admitted to being a follower in the caption this like caption site community instead of pretending to be a leader like I once did. By clicking the thumb over a caption, you select it as your “current favorite” caption. That puts it on a page full of the popular favorites that you and the other cappers have voted for. If that seems a lot like a feature from some other capsite, that’s because it is, kind of. I like to think I’ve put my own spin on it. Captions stay on the favorites page for up to 24 hours after they were written, and you can only vote for one caption at a time. That is, as soon as you click the thumb, your previous vote is wiped out. My thinking is that makes getting on the favorites page more of an honor and keeps the voting from becoming too much of an obsession. To provide at least some enforcement of the one capper/one vote thing, you do need to be registered to vote. The honor system takes care of the rest. Note, there’s no rule against voting for your own cap - heck the first test vote was of, by and for me. If that’s how you want to spend your vote, be my guest. Thoughts? Complaints? Job offers? Share them.