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I have made a significant change to the Friends Management screens… They are hopefully significantly more intuitive now – the ‘friends who choose me’ / ‘friends I choose’ idea is gone (although behind the scenes its still the same ;)) and replaced with a single list with different options for each friend in your list….

I’ve implemented a CAPTCHA filter on the new user sign up page which should deter the spambots. Hopefully for good, but if they decide that the lure of being on DearDiary’s front page for a few hours is worth the extra effort and investment then they will return. I have some plans up my sleeve…

First off I’d like to apologise to all users for our lack of updates to the Choice of the Week, we received quite a few suggestions and a few comments about the lack of update so thank you to all who did write in to the [email protected] address. As you can see this is now…

Again I must re-iterate our thanks for all your poetry, it’s all wonderful to read. We’ve been contacted by one user who has a “Writing for Life” site and I think that rather than both of us cover this event (it’s being over-covered as it is) I think it would be more appropriate to let…

Why, in the name of all that is holy, would ANYONE host a PHP and PERL based site on Windows? You wouldn’t choose to, but not because of Windows. That said, both of them under Apache seem to be pretty decent, though PHP has some interesting issues, as usual. It costs more, is more buggy…

Hi Everyone, A couple of quick announcements… Firstly, after a user request for a facility to allow searching of your own diary (possible already with the Search engine) we have updated it slightly to allow you to put a link to it on your own diary. When you want to search a particular users’ diary…