Year: 2010

Sorry, a bland entry because the notification system is missing the links to be able to click on! So hopefully I fixed it (not sure how it ended up being broken!) Let's see. This will also have fixed the fact that most people weren't even getting notifies… Sorry about that!

Hi all,     The DearDiary server has now moved (back to the US in fact) and if you're able to read this then you're looking at the new server (the old one is switched off presently). Hamipiks has NOT yet moved and is not serving pictures at the moment – but it will be moving…

I've just checked how many pictures are stored on Hamipiks and noticed that there's 349 Hamipiks users. Yet there are only 40 Plus account holders. That means there's 309 users who are hosting pictures on Hamipiks who aren't paying for the privilege. It's fair to say that's not really anyone's fault but my own. But…

Hi there,     I tried to login to DD this evening just to see how stuff is going. It was dead. At the moment I don't have any automated system checking scripts happening – though I do plan to get them back up shortly. But in the meantime if you try to visit the site…

Interesting, I can see the need for being able to have conversations in comments (and have everyone notified that a new reply has been added!) now. Actually I could before, but I'd really liked to have used such a feature for this response… Oh well, consider it the next job on the list for me…

Wow, I hadn't even thought of DNS issues because I was first made aware of the strange errors at the same time I had made changes to the DD code. The DNS server would have changed about 5 or so days prior to that. So of course, I went off down the path of something…

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…

Hi all,     I've been busy today and managed (I think) to switch the system from using files for storing the various messages into using the database to do the job. Ultimately this will remove over 280,000 files from the filesystem – but that won't happen until I'm happy that the new system is working…

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…