Top Ten Fixed

I have received too many complaints about a certain, nameless diarist, that I have had to (at least temporarily) revoke our non-interference strategy that was invoked some months back and have made the diary private. I am in discussion with the author and await their response – though I’m not sure I hold out much…

Hullo, A number of people had written and alerted me to the fact that the Show Updated Diaries screen was broken, in that it was never getting past the ‘Please Wait’ message. This was because someone’s diary title had HTML special characters in it which equated to an HTML comment, and thus the rest of…

I’ve made some tweaks to the database, and Matt made some tweaks to how the hits system works now, so that in theory, the system should be able to work a bit better for the people that deserve it, ie you guys reading this! Its a temporary step. The server is overloaded and we’re running…

Why Is It So Hard? It’s been brought to my attention that the system which allows people to request and receive notifications when someone updates an entry is a little difficult to navigate. To be fair, it is somewhat challenging. Part of the reason it’s so challenging is because I’ve tried to give people the…

As promised in early Novmber, I have now deleted all the expired Plus accounts pictures from Hamipiks. This hasremoved somewhere just over 1500 albums from Hamipiks and somewhere approaching 4 Gigs of disk has been freed up. Not bad for an afternoon’s work 🙂 I suspect, from looking at the error log on the web…

Search will be offline until further notice. We can’t have the database continually down, since then there’s nothing to search for! Todays outage was due to the fact that MYSQL decided that optimizing the entries table means deleting and recreating the fulltext index, which we know takes around 8 hours. Its not even like this…