Just to add my own experience here: unless I am logged into these Forums FIRST, it seems I am no longer able to post comments to the GOTD pages (?). I discovered this by accident recently, when I happened to be logged in here first BEFORE looking at that day's GOTD page.
If I'm NOT logged in here first, any attempt to post comments to the GOTD page (but not to GGOTD pages, weirdly) fails. This is in both Iron browser and in IE6. My comment 'disappears' and does NOT get shown at the foot of the comments as '…awaiting moderation.'
And on another issue, the GGOTD comments seem to be 'broken.' It's impossible to 'expand' the comments for GGOTD pages which are not 'current.' Clicking the 'View all comments' link on 'old' GGOTD pages doesn't work: it just displays the first three comments again. Could this be due to the SPAN tag for those having an ID of # (which seems a poor choice), or is there some other reason?
Those two issues, plus the somewhat poorly-designed forum software in use here (don't get me started on that!) does make what would otherwise be a pleasurable daily 'trawl' much more frustrating than it needs to be.
Then there is the whole 'RSS feeds don't work because of the illegal character in them' thing, <sarcasm>and the frequent 502s are just the icing on the cake.</sarcasm>
Don't get me wrong: I truly enjoy GOTD and GGOTD and do appreciate all the hard work done by everyone who contributes (well, except A----f maybe :)), but it's genuinely becoming very annoying to have to remember things like 'login to the Forum or you can't post a comment,' and to have to use the largely unfathomable bbPress. (Other, and MUCH better, free forum software exists…).
Yours in increasing frustration,
Cad