RSS/ATOM feeds are now available for the last 20 updated diaries – I have restricted it to 20 presently in order to guage the load on the server. Individual diaries will be able to have their own feeds shortly, but I’m busy working on some massive changes to the Friends Only Management interface and don’t…
I’ve noticed that the server has been running a little slow at times – during those times the load on the server has been EXTREMELY high. I’ve narrowed this down to 2 reasons; System processes running in the background are (were!) taking too long to complete and taking too much resource while they are running….
Some of our users have raised concerns that what’s happening over at mBlog could happen at DearDiary.Net. For those that don’t know what’s happened here’s a quick synopsis. mBlog (a blog provider I knew nothing about until today) has closed it’s doors due to ‘member abuse, inablity to reach agreement with Moveable Type and rising…
Friends Only entries absolutely require cookies in order to work. If your computer, for whatever reason, is not accepting cookies from us (or is deliberately corrupting them as some (brain damaged) personal firewall software seems to do) then you will probably experience the following symptoms; You enter your login name and password into the Friends…
The removal of entry of the week has prompted some good discussion, like any change that is made to the site. In this entry I shall try to answer some of the issues raised in Reader Comments from the previous entry. The notify list issue raised by InStitches was a bug and is now fixed…
I have some possible alternatives for Entry Of The Week that I will be thinking about over the next few weeks. One of the problems I had with EOTW was simply not having enough time to review the entries and in any case I am a REALLY bad critique because I’m of the opinion that…
I have decided to remove the Entry Of The Week. Many of the diarists who appeared as Entry Of The Week complained they did not want the limelight and often it caused controversy because people believed that their choice was a better choice than the one I made (and often they may well have been…
Hello all, w.bloggar interface is now back up and running using a totally rewritten class and as a result I’ve fixed a long standing bug with it whereby updating an entry would always send out the new entry notification rather than the update notification – or the other way round, I forget which way it…
I think the reader comment problem should now be fixed – I had a PHP setting that I had missed when I switched servers so that it forced people to use cookies. Unfortunately there’s some personal firewalls and such like out there that feel ANY cookie is an invasion of privacy and therefore block them,…
Hi all, I’ve discovered that my hosting provider who run secondary and tertiary name services have a bijoux buggette in their system which means that although I have requested the DNS updates, their systems haven’t actually honoured my request. Thus, for many people, username.deardiary.net url’s are still not working and openfiction.com is still showing as…