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This diary is maintained, as you can see, by the administrators of DearDiary.net. This entry will outline what we consider to be Freedom Of Speech and what we consider to be unacceptable, even under the concept of Freedom Of Speech. There are a number of things to remember here though. The First Amendment applies to…

Hi Xedri, Yeah, the front screen also uses a connection to the database, for pretty much everything, the genre selector which shows the different genres requires a connection, the Recent Updates requires a connection once every ten minutes (its a fairly long (well, 5 seconds or so) process to work out the latest updates, so…

If you visit a 'newest' entry, then the author updates and adds a new entry, you won't get to see it through the 'newest' link because newest for some reason is not issuing a 200 Ok header after an update, but still sends a 304 Not Modified header, by the looks of it anyway. More…

Interesting, I can see the need for being able to have conversations in comments (and have everyone notified that a new reply has been added!) now. Actually I could before, but I'd really liked to have used such a feature for this response… Oh well, consider it the next job on the list for me…

A new database server (an upgrade to MySQL 4.0.12) which had taken all day to get installed and functioning, is now functioning correctly. In theory this gives us some good performance improvements! Hopefully stability, but we’ll see on that front over the next few weeks. Steve.

DearDiary.Net is proud to announce that there is now 20 Megs of FTP space is now available for Plus account holders. The space can be used for anything that is legal, that you want to put onto your diary – this could be music (though you must make sure you have the copyright holders permission),…