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Sorry about that, folks...

by janra
Posted to Diaries, Diary on Sat Sep 24, 2005 at 04:02:18 PM PST
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We were down unexpectedly but now we're back and the site is even upgraded! The wiki will come back later.

New features inside...

So I haven't had a chance to set up the new features (being still up north), but I'm starting to think about what I want to do with them. One you may notice right away is a change to the user preferences. They've all been rearranged, and I will be changing things around more in the near future.

I've already added one nifty new feature - you'll find it in your Display (Interface) Preferences, right beside the story digest - a queue digest. Get notified by email when there's a story in the queue! Those emails are sent out daily and only include stories submitted in the previous 24 hours, so you'll get a reasonably up-do-date notice, but you won't get the same notice multiple times.

A second feature is multiple-choice polls. If you make a poll with your article or diary you can choose whether it's a traditional single-choice poll or a multiple-choice poll. Each member can still only vote once, but they can vote for many options at a time. See the poll on this story for an example :-)

Anyhow, I'll keep you folks updated as I turn on various features.

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    Sorry about that, folks... | 8 comments (8 topical, 0 hidden)
    queue digest (3.00/0) (#1)
    by sabeth on Sun Sep 25, 2005 at 07:02:56 PM PST
    Great idea :) Somehow even though it's highlighted in the sidebar, I've trained my eyes to ignore that part of the page ...

    I also never realized how much I'd miss the wiki until this week when it was down. I used to be an anti-wiki snob, but now it's become part of my weekly routine. So thanks very much for maintaining that, too. :)

    --ich sage nicht, was ich will, sondern was die Sprache will--

    training your eyes (3.00/0) (#2)
    by janra on Mon Sep 26, 2005 at 06:15:20 AM PST
    Why do you ignore that part of the page? Ads on other sites?

    And wikis are very handy things - I just get turned off by the attitude some wiki people have. That's why I chose a wiki program with access control; I wanted a wiki for the cross-referencing, not for the everybody-and-their-dog-can-write aspect.
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    Who needs to be big and burly when you can just apply physics?
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    I think it's specific to that block (3.00/0) (#6)
    by sabeth on Tue Oct 11, 2005 at 08:19:49 AM PST
    on Scoop sites. Ever since I stopped really paying attention to the K5 queue, I only go there for the links I want to use, and on this site I'm not often using those functions.

    Something weird I noticed when I turned on the Queue digest -- I seem to be a cloaked user now, even though I have "Hide myself in Who's online" unchecked. I tried changing my prefs to be cloaked and then uncloaked, but it didn't seem to make a difference. I dunno, maybe it's just me or I'm missing something.

    I don't really use the cross-referencing ability of the wiki (even though I could probably benefit from it) ... it's mostly a place to keep notes that I can access and edit, even when I'm not in front of the computer I do most of my writing on.

    --ich sage nicht, was ich will, sondern was die Sprache will--
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    odd (3.00/0) (#7)
    by sabeth on Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 06:44:04 AM PST
    I subscribed to the queue digest, but now that I've logged on for the first time in a bit (sometimes I hit the page but if I've been auto-logged out by Scoop I don't log in unless I have something to post), I see there's a new story in the queue, and I don't remember getting an email.

    This may or may not be the place to bring it up, but are there any plans for a "post to diary instead" vote option for the submission queue? I've seen a couple stories that were submitted to the queue that would make great diaries, but not good front page stories. Of course it would be up to the author whether they wanted to post it as a diary, but it'd be nice to have an option to reject a story for FP without dropping it entirely. Maybe a check box when submitting to the queue, that the author can choose if they're ok with it being sent to the diary page instead?

    --ich sage nicht, was ich will, sondern was die Sprache will--
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    Finally figured it out... (3.00/0) (#8)
    by janra on Wed Feb 08, 2006 at 05:35:48 AM PST
    very slow answer, sorry about that.

    Turns out when Write On! moved servers, the cron (scheduler) wasn't set up properly. None of the scheduled stuff, like story digests or RDF updates, had been run since September.

    Oops. It's fixed now.
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    Who needs to be big and burly when you can just apply physics?
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    So... (3.00/0) (#3)
    by ana on Sun Oct 02, 2005 at 10:17:43 AM PST
    I'm guessing the IRC channel never came back up again? No real problem; we can use another server.
    Exploring dark places since last Thursday
    not yet (4.00/1) (#4)
    by janra on Sun Oct 02, 2005 at 05:18:42 PM PST
    I've actually been considering just pointing irc.write-on.org to irc.slashnet.org and inviting people to the #writing channel there. That way we get various services that I never managed to get set up, and it's one less thing for me to mess with (and worry about).
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    Who needs to be big and burly when you can just apply physics?
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    That'd be cool. (3.00/0) (#5)
    by ana on Thu Oct 06, 2005 at 07:11:27 AM PST
    We've been posting temporary messages on toasted-cheese.com to let people know to go there anyway; this'd make it automagical.
    Exploring dark places since last Thursday
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