The BBC has an interesting article on how Blogging (and since you’re reading this, you’re a part of it!) is shaping new journalism. Which goes to show, DearDiary.Net’s original aims are actually being fulfilled! If you don’t know what DD’s original aims are, check The New Look DD FAQ Let’s look forward to a great…
A bone of contention on the site, and a personal pet hate of mine ever since we started the place in 1999 (but never a pet peeve enough for me to do much about it) is the absolute lack of nice themes available for beginner users to use. With that in mind we have decided…
For a limited time the price of a Plus account has been slashed by around 30% – which with the current US Dollar exchange rate should represent a significant saving for our US friends. The price for a whole years Plus account is now a mere £15.75 (was £22.50), or approximately US$ 30.50, with similar…
I have been made aware that there are a number of ‘online surveys’ floating around that people have filled in. These surveys tend to be the ‘let your friends get to know you better’ type survey that when they first appeared on the net were fun, friendly and totally innocent and harmless. However, lately these…
Hi everyone, Just dropping in to wish everyone a happy Christmas or whichever particular holiday you celebrate at this time of year. Have a great time and let’s look forward to a great 2005 coming up real soon! Many thanks for your support over the last year, lets see what next year brings!
I’d been made aware of a bunch of seperate bugs with the Manage Friends screen, notably that changing the option from Automatically Accept to Manually Review didn’t work (and from looking at the code it never could – I’ve no idea how I managed to come up with the idea that it worked when I…
No this isn’t an ad for Viagra – lol – I discovered a bijou issue in the front page code, which bodes well for other areas as I come across them. Basically I had misunderstood the caching of Smarty templates and although the front page was delivering its content from a cached database query, it…
Just in case any of the recent spate of bun fighters can’t be bothered to check out The Terms And Conditions (which incidentally have not changed for some significant period of time) – the relevant clauses are clause 3 and 4 and are copied below for you; # Diary entries must not publish details of…
Just a reminder that at this site, bun fights between diarists are not tolerated. If you have an opinion on another diarist at this site you take it up with them IN PRIVATE or you keep your writing fingers tied up for the day. This site does not tolerate fighting between authors in public diaries…
I’ve checked our advertising revenue for the last few months and it’s extremely disappointing. The numbers also don’t match the number of hits to the site to various pages which means people are using ad blockers. I’d like to remind people that although everyone hates advertisements, especially intrusive ones but advertising is what tries to…