Strange spurious errors

I've received reports that DD is not responding properly on a number of occasions, with people seeing 404 errors, Internal Server Errors and occasionally a white screen that says simply 'test'. I've been unable to reproduce these things here – that's not to say they don't exist, just that the conditions are not right for…

Server Move Update

The astute amongst you may have noticed that DearDiary still hasn't moved to its new home. There's a good technical reason for this lack of motion. The server we're moving to has some resource restrictions (notably the number of files it can contain) and there's some legacy parts of the system which use a number…

Rest In Peace Pragmatist

It is a sad day for DearDiary and many of our readers. We've been advised that Pragmatist, one of our long time diarists, has passed away in her sleep overnight. I've personally had interactions with Pragmatist through the support e-mail address and she was a lovely lady who will be missed by many. For those…

Line Spacing Test

Testing double line spacing issue when using HTML editor Please ignore 🙂 That looks better – now the entry shows up as it should if you're using the HTML editor – how come no-one complained about this?? Is no-one using the HTML editor except me? 🙂 WELL, it DID look better until I used Modify…

Slow Pageloads Presently

Hello all,     I'm aware that DearDiary (and Hamipiks) page loads are very slow at the moment. Unfortunately the new server has less bandwidth allocation than the previous one, and when it reaches its limit it is slowed down. Under normal circumstances it won't reach its limit, but this month it has for a couple…