New DB installed

The much-asked-for new Add Reader Comment facility is now online. Due to the continued abuse of many of the diarists on here that are constantly plagued by people posting abusive comments to diary we have brought on board the first of a few changes to begin to curb this disturbing trend. Stage 1 is now…

Have you ever wanted to post to your diary by sending it an e-mail? Well now you can, if you’re a Plus user, by using our all new Email posting tool. Here’s how it works; Create an email in your normal email tool, and send it to posts@deardiary.net The format of the email must look…

We have been advised by our solicitors that information covered by the privacy policy can be given to other law agencies, without necessarily being threatened with a court order. Such a policy would be costly to us because we could have to appear in court in whatever country the problem is occuring. Thus, the wording…

Hi folks, Steve has just fixed the Server Maintenance In Progress page which comes up when you try to access someone’s diary directly (ie: http://username.deardiary.net/) Sorry for the inconvenience caused. Other changes: The lost password retrieval page has been fixed so lost passwords can now be accessed by pressing the login button, then the cancel…

It was requested some time ago by a fairly prominent member of the community, that diarists be given the ability to make comments on their diary private if, for example, someone has left a comment that was for a Friends Only entry but the person leaving it had left it as a public comment. I…

Perhaps this was covered in the above, but I wasn’t clear honestly. We will still have our private e-mail addresses which is where we will receive our notifications of updates to others’ diaries and notifications of comments on our DDs and OpenFiction, or will that too be sent to our @deardiary.net address? You will still…