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I think a better idea would be to give each user the ability to block certain users and/or certain IP addresses from commenting in their diary. That way if someone leaves a nasty comment in a user’s diary, that user can block that person from ever commenting again. Or perhaps that user might be given…

I’ve presently removed ALL public images from the system and am in the process of re-approving the reasonably useful ones. Over the last 4 years we’ve gathered a huge amount (somewhere around 32,000) images and a lot of them just don’t work well as backgrounds or buttons and such like. So there’s now going to…

Work officially began on the long awaited DearDiary 3.0 software. Matt’s busy on other projects (one’s that actually enable this server to be paid for these days, so we won’t stop him!) so DD3 is all down to me… Don’t hold your breath, but I shall be working on it flat out and will be…

The Top Ten Diaries is offline presently because the query (amongst a couple of others) was killing the system. It needs redesigning to be more MySQL friendly (which is bizarre, but MySQL really chugs on some queries on the entries tables now) I think ADM jokingly said in one of his entries – maybe there…

You may have noticed that although the server hasn’t been crashing over the last few days, it has been giving the good old ‘Unable to Connect to Database’ error, or possibly Internal Server Error’s. This was due to a misconfiguration of the PHP module and the database, which is now sorted. Hopefully that’ll be the…

If you mail a request to support, or abuse, PLEASE make sure you mail from an address which can accept mail from us… I am writing this entry in response to a bounce message from AOL after someone wrote to abuse@deardiary.net asking us to investigate a rather inappropriate diary, and now I can’t mail the…