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As promised I have just finished adding the ‘choice factor’ back into Dear Diary. There is now a new configuration option under the Customiser, in General Diary Options and then Basic Settings. It’s called ‘Secure Comments’ – it defaults to ON (the new mechanism that requires an Atomic account). If you clear this checkbox and…

I've been advised that since the server move, the notify emails are not always making it to their intended destination. I've made some adjustments to the mail server that's running at deardiary.net, and the associated mailserver which actually does all the delivery work, and hopefully that'll fix it up. Some addresses though will almost never…

Readers Comments (and anything that uses PHP Sessions) was broken overnight due to the /tmp disk filling up. I have discovered why it filled up and stopped it happening again, and now you should be able to leave Reader Comments again. Sorry about that,Steve

I’ll admit to being confused by how some of the details are going to work, but that’s why I’m a user and you guys are administrators. What happens to all the pictures in the old Salamander Album when it comes time to renew? Are they moved to my new album? Do they remain accessible, but…

Good heavens! 20,000 public diaries now available to be read! I’ve noticed also that the number of diaries updated in the last week and 24 hours has dramatically increased too!! Thanks for choosing DearDiary.Net to write at – keep up the good work folks, lets chronicle history through the eyes of the normal (heh!) person!…

I think it might be the usual misbehaving spider causing the problems, but I shall reserve judgement for now.. I know there is a particularly badly behaved spider on the net that tries to grab hundreds of diary pages in one go and causes massive server problems… We shall see whether my changes to robots.txt…