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Some people don’t know when to stop do they? A recent bunch of comments left by Lillith and Pring1es (note the variation on the name) were left by none other than NastyNick, who is, or shortly will be, banned for life from the server. We will not tolerate this constant cat and mouse of trying…

This is a quick how-to, since it’s something that a lot of people email and ask about. Firstly, in version 3 (the next one) there will be an explicit log-out button, in hind-sight the authentication mechanism that we use to deal with logging in was a mistake and has caused us no end of problems….

We have received a comment from a user suggesting that private entries could be read by simply clicking view/source on the page. I have tested this just now to verify this claim and I cannot make it happen. If you have any further information as to what you are doing to be able to read…

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…

SSL has been a requirement for Google optimization when it comes to searches for probably nearly a year now. Sites that don’t support SSL (secure) connections won’t get the little padlock in the corner and a penalised in search results. Also, it’s not good because your login details are sent in the clear across the…

The server has been moved to a more powerful machine today. In theory no-one will notice any difference because the old server is still serving requests by proxying them through to the new one. The DNS will catch up over the next few days (possibly sooner) and as such everything will hopefully definitely return to…