The drawback is that if someone doesn't allow Spiders on their LJ (even if they don't friendslock their LJ), they're "invisible" to LJSeek, so no.

D'oh! That explains why LJSeek never worked for me even though I kept my journal public for a long time ... I did deliberately choose No Spiders.

I hate the Horizon view. That scrolling up to page top or down to page bottom to find links? UGH! Up until they made Horizon the default I was perfectly happy with XColibur, then in all the angry conversation about Horizon I saw many people recommend Dystopia ... after a week trying to adjust to Horizon I switched to Dystopia and loved it. Still love it. Many more links on the sidebar, much easier to get to information ~ it's less of a hunt.

Regarding news, new members are automatically assigned that comm ~ I was when I joined ~ and now lj_maintenance and tipoftheday are automatically assigned as well.