Here's a little bit more about what's going on... the code should land in a week or three.

The keyword is 'subscription'. Instead of being presented with an aggregate of all the content on the website when you visit, you should be allowed to choose which of the various information feeds and channels you wish to look at. 

The interface to all of this is a subscription list. You can subscribe to the things you want to see. There will also be an option to auto-subscribe you to newly created feeds - or not.

The whole thing about article UUID's has to do with channel permissions. Let's take an example. I want to make the 'changelog' forum public, but not the 'myfriendsonly' forum. Currently I can turn it into a hidden forum - but that isn't secure against eavesdropping. And it can never be secure against eavesdropping as long as I can go to a URL like 'article/165'. That means I can manually enter 'article/166', 'article/167', etc. and go through every article on the site, including those that might be in hidden rooms. 

This ability just vanished. You can't do it anymore. Now you have to go to a specific article out of about 4 billion combinations. This make private forums pretty much private. 

To top it off, there's that subscription thingy. You can only look at stuff that you're subscribed to. You won't be able to subscribe to forums which have a membership roster that doesn't include you.

And with subscriptions comes site subsriptions - or the default that you're presented with until you define your own subscriptions. And this can be different for every URL. Right now if you go to macgirvin.com and mountainviewmusic.com, they're the same. OK, they've got different CSS files. In a couple of weeks, this may not be the case anymore. Each URL can have its own default subscriptions. So sonica-music.com could only show music stuff, and macgirvin.com could only show my weblog.