I am trialling a new ‘anti-spam’ solution for diary sign-ups. Until I get it right there is a good possibility that you may not be able to create a new diary on the site. If that happens, I apologise. Please do let me know so I can investigate it further.
On the other hand, if you’re a spammer (or Splogger as I’ve come to learn) then too bad, go away!
🙂
So, today I have been playing around with getting my development environment up and running properly. The ultimate goal was that I wanted a way to deploy DearDiary.Net onto a new machine and have it run exactly as the live site does with no manual intervention. I’ve almost achieved that goal with the exception of…
I have today released a new feature for the DearDiary.Net site which puts the power to dispose of spammers firmly in the hands of our trusted users. I will no longer need to verify that people who are marked as spammers should in fact be removed from the site. Instead of relying on any user…
Hi all, If you’ve put in a migration request and it hasn’t happened within about 10 minutes or so, please get in touch. You should be able to use the Help button at the top of the front page, but if you can’t for some reason, or you get no response, please go to the…
The old system has been replaced. Now there are two steps to add a new friend, the first is on the original screen but this is now a SEARCH box. The drop down will still drop down if it finds people while you type, but you do not have to click on what it finds….
Hi everyone, just a quick note before I go off to study again for the week (the end of semester is in sight though) – I’m acutely aware that there are a number of ‘spam’ diaries being created on the site at the moment. As many of you will know, I recruited a number of…
I’m aware that when you post a new entry (and possibly modify an existing one?) the screen that comes up afterwards merely contains a seemingly random number… This isn’t happening on my test system and I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that my codebases were exactly the same on both systems… But clearly something…