New DB installed

Please note, we’re not laying the law down here, these are our thoughts and feelings and perhaps some suggestions. The number of requests going to the abuse address seems to be on the rise and while we are not saying don’t email us – after all, the abuse address is there for a very good…

This should send a notifcation e-mail when I publish. It won’t though, for some reason. So I’m running debug code behind the scenes to attempt to find out why… Please bear with me, there may be a few of these entries over the next half hour or so… Looking at the code it’s no wonder…

Hi guys, This isn’t a whinge or a moan, its a genuine request for help because this has floundered for too long now and I’m getting depressed about it… What do I have to do to make this place (DearDiary.Net) viable as a business? Even one that might one day pay its own server fees…

As many of you have made a valid point that the new private comment feature can be a pain in the butt, and have requested that it be bannable, I have investigated the situation… The true situation is that I could implement the ability to ban it, but it will take more time than I…

I have today decided that I’m happy for people to begin having a play on the site as it stands. Presently there’s an enormous amount of work to do, and there’s a lot of core DD functionality that needs to be replicated here. There’s an enormous amount of things that need to be tested too….

Apologies for the downtime, it was scheduled to take about half an hour and then the server blew up… Over the next few days the service in the mornings (US time) will be intermittent as we prepare and implement the move to the new server. This will mean that the evening speed and performance will…