Oh yeah… I forgot…
Some people seem to be having troubles with receiving notifications for peoples diaries that they no longer subscribe to. If you are one of those people, please forward a copy of the notification to support@deardiary.net so we can investigate, it would appear to be a strange and elusive bug in the system.
Steve.
Hi guys, Sorry to be a nuisance, but I am still experiencing some odd problems with the web site – www.deardiary.org. Now, its possible that its my ISP, as they use a transparent HTTP proxy AND a transparent NameServer proxy. However, I can’t guarantee that, and as such I can’t guarantee that others aren’t seeing…
Just a quick update: We’ve brought online the other two payment methods supported by our authorised sales agent, IBill – This means that you can now pay in one of three ways: Credit Card (Visa/Mastercard) Online Check (US Banks only) 1-900 Phone Number (US Only) The 900 number works by just charging your phone the…
Hi folks, Just to let you all know, todays outage was unrelated to Sunday’s downtime, although, as a result of the fulltext indexes it meant that todays failure was excerbated by the extreme slowness of rebuilding the indexes after a failure. So, what do we learn from this experience to endeavour to ensure it doesn’t…
Hi guys, I didn’t know where to put these comments to your comments, since if I comment on the entry itself then probably those comments would not get seen… Anyway, regarding the Subscription idea. The idea is that a subscription will be voluntary. We realise that at least for the present, and probably foreseeable future,…
Its come to my attention that a number of people who have diaries here have been threatened by, perhaps one, perhaps more people, that their ’employers’ will be contacted. I’m not sure on what grounds these employers would be contacted, especially since the various people threatened are among the more sensible users of this system…
Yesterdays system administration efforts were an unprecedented disaster and caused a significant unplanned downtime, for which we sincerely apologise. It had been intended to move a couple of unrelated web sites from the server that runs DearDiary, to another server. However, for some odd reason, which is still as yet unknown, doing so caused the…