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posted by davidt
on Sunday January 13 2002, @11:00AM
The site is now running the latest version of Slash, version 2.2.3, upgraded from version 2.0.0. Again, I have to thank the Slash team for updating and improving the best news/comment system out there. It is truly an amazing piece of work, and as everything is open sourced, any changes or minor modifications were easy to make. Here's a good article "Open source software is NOT free!" I came across recently which is a good explanation of open source and you can see how the principles apply to the way Morrissey-solo is run.
As usual, please let me know or post in the comments section any problems you might have and and also any feature requests. I don't really receive that many suggestions for the site, any input is appreciated.
New features include:
- A new messaging system for logged-in users. If you want notification when someone replies to one of your comments, when one of your comments is moderated, or when a friend's journal is updated, you can set this all in the preferences section and messages can be sent through the web (when you visit the site you'll see a notification of any new message) or through email. Also, if you want headlines emailed to you, this is where you set that up.
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A new comment system which is more efficient and flexible. Journals now have a comment system, and I also plan to use it for tour coverage, when and if a new tour starts up. Moderation should also be working better now, it was sort of busted in the previous version.
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Please check your preferences, especially regarding the display of your email address in comments. Some things were changed around, there used to be a "fake email" for display purposes but that was removed, probably because it is open for abuse. The real email address is used for display (if you want it to be displayed), but there is also an option for adding some text to prevent it from being harvested by spam robots.
There are a lot of other small administrative fixes and improvements, which all together provide a stable system which is prepared for whatever Morrissey may release upon us this year.
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