Unsecured comments.

Hi folks, There’s a few things I’ve changed on the server, security wise. This means that its possible I’ve overlooked something and things that worked yesterday suddenly don’t today. PLEASE mail us if you find something. Don’t assume someone else will, because they won’t. We’ll be running around, in and out of the site for…

Please do NOT ask support questions in reader comments. Its almost impossible to sensibly reply and keep track of whether your query has been answered if you merely leave it as a comment. Please use the help button (which has a horrible backlog at the moment, so I apologise!) or email us. The email addresses…

This is the last entry i’ll post into this diary on this topic, I don’t want to continue to put what is essentially ‘off topic’ entries into this diary but since I started, i’ll round up and finish it off. I want to thank each and every one of you for your kind words, both…

I've noticed (with some help from someone!) that the Plus account expiry system hasn't been running. It's probably been that way for some considerable time, at least since last time we moved servers. Which would explain why we haven't had many renewals recently – and why the budget is suffering as badly as it is!…

I’ve noticed a HUGE number of people have email addresses on other diarists notify lists which are no longer valid and are bouncing. The mailbox for the user who runs the webserver process (and is the sender of all notify mails) was over 160Meg when I returned to the UK!! To that end, I have…

GIF’s are not likely to ever be supported on the album, as the software we use will not deal with GIF’s at all. There’s some interesting political reasons for this, but that basis of it all was that originally Compuserve came up with the GIF image format and spread it all over the place. Unisys,…