Pen to Paper

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…

First, if you’re using Chinese BIG5 character encoding don’t post anything at the moment – something is wrong and it won’t save your message properly. I need to investigate what has gone wrong there and at the moment I don’t have any idea. Hamipiks will be coming back online later today, its the next one…

Hi folks, Steve has just fixed the Server Maintenance In Progress page which comes up when you try to access someone’s diary directly (ie: http://username.deardiary.net/) Sorry for the inconvenience caused. Other changes: The lost password retrieval page has been fixed so lost passwords can now be accessed by pressing the login button, then the cancel…

I’ve added the rates in US Dollars to the payment pages. PayPal tell me they will show the /actual/ dollar amounts when you pay – so let me know if you don’t cos my account is a pounds account. 🙂

This subject comes up occasionally, and I’m just going to re-iterate what has been said before… We will not be deleting old diaries unless the author specifically asks us. The aim of DearDiary when it was originally started still holds true and that is to chronicle the passage of time through the eyes of ordinary…

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…