New ways to link

A new feature made its way onto the DearDiary system a few days ago. We’ve kept it quiet until now to make sure it was working properly, but given that its taken about 2000 pages a day and we’ve not heard any nasty comments into support we might as well officially announce it… Though those…

OOOPS!

Apologies. A coding glitch has meant that adverts have been inadvertantly appearing on users diaries if the right conditions were met, despite our assurance here. I’m actually surprised that no-one complained, but anyway, no-one did so perhaps you all don’t mind them as much as you said you did a while back! But either way,…

Abuse

Please note, we’re not laying the law down here, these are our thoughts and feelings and perhaps some suggestions. The number of requests going to the abuse address seems to be on the rise and while we are not saying don’t email us – after all, the abuse address is there for a very good…

Ad creepage.

Some people, those who are awake at least, may have noticed that there is an advert banner on the front page. We decided to do this for a couple of reasons, firstly, it takes up less space than the logo (LOL, thats pathetic isn’t it?)… Ok, the real reason, we’re still losing a buttload of…

SORRY!!

I broke it all during an upgrade to try to get PHP and MySQL to stop barfing over each other. Turns out its a GLIBC bug as a suspected. Anyway, for those non-techie of you, its fixed and should work properly… You can tell this because I am able to login and do an update…

Random changes….

As many people will have noticed, the Top 10 read diaries is now in a random order and the number of hits no longer shown. The reason for this is quite simple and that is that the listing is there to give new people (and perhaps not so new people) an easy starting point to…

Downtime.

Apologies for the serious downtime thats been experienced today, and yesterday. It seems that a bug in the kernel, due to our compiler and perhaps the options supplied to it, gradually consumed more and more memory until the machine ran out and fell over. As a result things would have gradually got slower and slower,…

Official word on Rick.

This diary is maintained, as you can see, by the administrators of DearDiary.net. This entry will outline what we consider to be Freedom Of Speech and what we consider to be unacceptable, even under the concept of Freedom Of Speech. There are a number of things to remember here though. The First Amendment applies to…