Reader Comment Fix

Just to say that work is still continuing on the new server – who’d have thought a system that came from a Linux platform would take so much to get it back up and running. But, in fairness, DD has had some new stuff (friends list for one) added since it was moved to Windows,…

If you’re reading this, you’re talking to our new server, in a new datacentre, on a new hosting provider… Hopefully everything works OK – some of the ‘user data’ is still being copied across so you might not see your proper index texts or individual buttons for a few more hours – but they’re coming…

If you’re used to reading your comments and clicking the users name hotlink in order to send them an email you’ll be in for a surprise now as the system will instead take you to their diary. Assuming they’re an authenticated (ie, logged in) commenter. If they’re not you won’t get a hotlink at all…

The astute amongst you may have noticed that DearDiary still hasn't moved to its new home. There's a good technical reason for this lack of motion. The server we're moving to has some resource restrictions (notably the number of files it can contain) and there's some legacy parts of the system which use a number…

Wired Patrol can help you if you’re in any of the above countries… Steve.

Or the Great Unwashed 🙂 No, Unresolved, in the context of our ‘Show My Hits’ page, simply means that the system has not yet looked for the address, or addresses of the sites that have looked at your pages. That is, any address that the system has not yet tried to convert from an IP…