There are on occasions some processes that are locking up for some reason, as mentioned before. The biggest culprit appeared to be the graphics manager which means that uploading private graphics is presently turned off until I can get to fix the script. There are others that are occasionally locking too, and at this time I’ve no idea why I’m afraid… I’m still looking into whats going on 🙂
In a few days DearDiary.Net will be 5 years old… On that day in 1999, we served about 100 pages, most of which I suspect were me and Matt playing around… Today, in the last 20 minutes, we’ve served 12,467 diary pages alone, that’s not including pages such as the front page, or reader comments…
The database collapsed. Seems we make use of it in some way that it didn’t like. As such I have reverted to the originals and it should be functioning a bit better. I’ll use the stack dump and logs to send to the author so he can fix it, but I THINK its probably to…
Look below and maybe you can begin to see why we don’t feel like putting up with kindergarten people here. People get paid more per HOUR to look after less children… We have no objections to running the site at a loss, but we’ll be goddamned if we’re looking after the kids at the same…
As many people will have noticed, the Top 10 read diaries is now in a random order and the number of hits no longer shown. The reason for this is quite simple and that is that the listing is there to give new people (and perhaps not so new people) an easy starting point to…
I have discovered some useful information regarding the recent spam attack, and have put in place some extra countermeasures that, at least for now, have enabled me to switch the Last 10 Updates and new users back on. If you discover further spam please let me know the username as soon as possible so that…
I have now completed, and installed the latest change to the DearDiary code – friends only entries. Its something that people have wanted for a LONG long time, and that’s the ability to restrict viewing of your entries to particular people, and now you can. If you mark an entry as friends only, then anyone…