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Supporter Status Expiry

February 11, 2013 by

Hi all,    Currently there’s no ‘penalty’ for a Supporter when their subscription expires because the system doesn’t actually do anything when a subscription runs out. In the next few days (possibly a week or so) this will change. In a few days, if your Supporter status has expired any plugins that your diary uses that are Supporter Only plugins will automatically de-activate.

I’m not entirely sure who this will affect at this stage because I haven’t done a list of people (if any!) whose Supporter status has expired. But if your Supporter status has expired, be aware that any Supporter plugins will automatically switch off when I make the change.

Sorry to be a pain, but I do need to make some reason for people to re-Support us in the future.

I’m also working on ways to improve the automatic detection of spam diaries, and hopefully I can set the system up to automatically recognise spammers better.

Any questions, please leave a comment here!

Filed Under: Administravia, Development Tagged With: ,

Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2012 by

For all those who celebrate Christmas, may we wish you a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. With any luck, 2013 will see us getting on top of the spam blog problem and able to open the door to new subscribers again!

Thanks for all your support during 2012, and for your support during the software switchover. We look forward to more new and exciting stuff in 2013 – because clearly the Mayans were wrong :-)

And if you celebrate something other than Christmas at this time of year, Seasons Greetings for that too!

Filed Under: Administravia

New Users Note

July 27, 2012 by

If your diary exists and contains links to businesses, and appears to have been setup purely for business purposes, it’s not welcome here.

This is a diary site. Not a blog site. It’s intention is for you to chronicle your daily life and let others share your experiences.

I don’t know how to be any clearer. If you reason for using this site is to promote your business then you’ve chosen the wrong place.

Your ‘diary’ will be deleted if this is the case. You have been warned. You will also be marked as a ‘splogger’ which reduces your chances of being able to sign up anywhere else too. So do yourself a favour, and don’t come here to promote your business.

Filed Under: Administravia, Policy

Tips and Tricks for New DearDiary.Net

July 5, 2012 by

If you’re struggling with the new system, not realising how much you can do with it, then fear no longer. One of our users (MissTick) has posted some tips and tricks and I just felt they really needed sharing!

At some point we will come up with some video tutorials which cover how to use the site in depth, particularly if you’re used to the old system. It can be quite a shock. But the stuff you can do with this new system is WAY more flexible than the old system. It just takes some getting used to.

Hopefully these tips and tricks will help you.

Filed Under: Administravia Tagged With: , ,

Plus Account Expiries Run on Legacy System

June 30, 2012 by

Plus Account expiries on the archive system have been run tonight. If you are a Supporter on the new system but the old system has expired you and you wish to keep on using the old system too, please let me know. You do NOT have to pay twice, but the old system will not recognise Supporter Payments made on the new system. Please e-mail me or let me know here if this is you and I will manually enter your payment into the archive/legacy/old system.

Filed Under: Administravia
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