One of the things the DearDiary code really is pretty poor at is dealing with the modern world. The original codebase was written in 1999, long before HTTP/1.1 was in widespread use. Which means a lot of the HTTP headers we send out aren't utilising a lot of the more modern cache control headers, whereas…
I've made some major adjustments to the notification system, which comprises a number of different scripts at this stage. I have seen the new entry notifications going out from this diary, but haven't checked for other diarists – though they should go out just as well. Comment notify uses a different system and has been…
Integration of the DearDiary system with the e-mail system is in progress. You might notice some glitches – I should be on to them, but if they persist beyond the next hour or so then please let me know 🙂 [EDIT]: It seems notifies are not working properly still. I am looking into it.
Well, I said that I'd be doing more work on DD now that my new job is away from computers and after the server move, so what have I been up to? There's been a couple of things. Firstly I had to calm the search engine spiders down because the new server doesn't have such…
I've been advised that since the server move, the notify emails are not always making it to their intended destination. I've made some adjustments to the mail server that's running at deardiary.net, and the associated mailserver which actually does all the delivery work, and hopefully that'll fix it up. Some addresses though will almost never…
I'm sure this has been asked before – and I have a number of things I need to implement myself – but since I'm on the drive to improve DearDiary.Net I figured I might as well throw open the doors of suggestion and see what you guys think it needs. So, what DO you think…
Hi all, Well, so far the server move is progressing along nicely. It's always slower than one would like and there will be things that don't go to plan. But at the moment it's looking reasonable. Some things to bear in mind at present. Not everything has yet moved. Hamipiks, OpenFiction and some other…
Greetings everyone, It's been some considerable time since I last posted anything on here – I'm not even sure if anyone reads this any more?! There's a fair bit of news to tell you all, which I'll go into shortly, but the main point of this particular entry is to tell you all that…