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…
Greetings again everyone, 2 entries in one day – although I must have my timezone set wrong cos the system thinks its 2 days, but anyway… So, after a Reader Comment that talked about not being happy for a Plus account holder to not be able to add links in entries, it struck…
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In order to allow new users to sign up again, I have had to make a slight change, which possibly won't be very popular but hopefully won't stay in place for long – at least for regular users. To re-cap, the reason new users were unable to sign up was because a high proportion of…
For some time now people have been struggling with inputing their entries onto DD – at least it seems that those who were using the HTML editor and IE8 were having issues. I think there was an incompatibility with the old HTML editor which for some reason was only showing for users of IE8. Unfortunately…
New user signups are disabled again, this time indefinitely. Sorry, DearDiary just doesn’t get anywhere near close enough to pay even for a cup of tea per month so I’m really not interested in fighting the constant battles against idiots who believe the website owes them something. Especially those who believe they can use websites…
WE ARE NOT CLOSING DOWN There’s an awful lot that needs doing to DD to bring it into line with latest web technologies. For one thing it looks horrid on the iPhone ;-). I can’t give any promises if/when those changes will be done because of other financial pressures but the comments on my previous…
I’ve implemented a CAPTCHA filter on the new user sign up page which should deter the spambots. Hopefully for good, but if they decide that the lure of being on DearDiary’s front page for a few hours is worth the extra effort and investment then they will return. I have some plans up my sleeve…
In the past few weeks we’ve been alerted to an incredible number of spam diaries again. These diaries sign up for the express purpose of posting links to other sites, sometimes with various irrelevant keywords. To be honest, I don’t get it. The Google ranking they’ll achieve as a result of being on here with…