Sometimes you can’t see the wood for the trees. I had made some changes to fix what looked like a bug in the Add Friends search screen (ie, when you select the user with the tickbox and click Add Friend – sometimes it wasn’t adding someone it should have been). Unfortunately I had totally misinterpreted…
You know, I really love how a system can work perfectly in test environment and then screw itself when it goes live… Thats exactly what happened for the last hour. I’ve been fighting some weirdisms with the friends system. It may be that your friends list is all messed up (people you added ended up…
This was answered a week ago… 🙂 here and the original post here Steve
The new friends system is now online. I hope that the screens I have written are not too confusing! Please give me any feedback you consider is necessary with regard to using the new system. The system does away with the traditional ‘notify list’ scheme, in that now people do not need to receive an…
A database query managed to pull the whole site over, resulting in the need to close down and restart the database. Unfortunately when it came back up it decided to overwrite its replication logs from the beginning and as such would have destroyed the backup database replication. I’ve taken a snapshot of the database now…
I’ve made a slight tweak to the authentication modules at the recommendation of one of the other users of the MySQL Auth Module (Mark Blair) so I’m trying that one out to see if it stops the Apache box from restarting every hour or so. Most people won’t notice any difference with any luck, but…
I’ve been working on the ability to allow non web based clients the facility to interface with DearDiary. Thanks to a portable API developed at other ‘blogging’ sites (notably blogger.com) which lots of Windows client software now uses and some hard work on the backend I can now announce that DearDiary supports the Blogger API….
This subject comes up occasionally, and I’m just going to re-iterate what has been said before… We will not be deleting old diaries unless the author specifically asks us. The aim of DearDiary when it was originally started still holds true and that is to chronicle the passage of time through the eyes of ordinary…
Perhaps this was covered in the above, but I wasn’t clear honestly. We will still have our private e-mail addresses which is where we will receive our notifications of updates to others’ diaries and notifications of comments on our DDs and OpenFiction, or will that too be sent to our @deardiary.net address? You will still…
Is it possible for you to provide me with a list of diaries I am on the notify list of before the change? I’m on lists of folks who hardly ever update. I’m afraid I’ll forget to add myself to them without a reminder. Unfortunately, that’s one of the biggest reasons for the change –…