the official supersized.org blog

As you may have noticed, supersized.org and all the blogs at supersized org were down for two days. They had a pretty bad power outage at the data center, you can read more at hetzner-status.de

The problems are fixed and supersized.org should work smoothly again. I'm very sorry for the outage...

I had to disable some plugins as they were hogging too much CPU time. If you have been using one of these plugins, don't be surprised that they're gone now:

• serendipity_event_autosave
• serendipity_event_backendrss
• serendipity_event_backup
• serendipity_event_statistics
• serendipity_event_comics
• serendipity_event_gravatar

I hope that isn't too annoying! Sorry...

I just upgraded your serendipity installations, please report any oddities to the forums - thanks :-)

Hi all, I just installed a bunch of great new styles for you to use. The new ones are:

• Hipporatium:
  
• Powered:
  
• Adaptation:
  
• Leaf:
  
• Fifty50:
  
• RoundedCorner:
  
• BrownPaper:
  

Have fun using them, and if something shouldn't work with one of the new styles, please let me know :)

OpenUsability.org is currently conducting a s9y user survey. What is s9y, you ask? It's the piece of software that is powering your blog at supersized.org. So, if you got ten spare minutes, please go ahead and check out the survey right now - it's short, fun and will enhance (your) user experience. Good karma garanteed. If you like s9y, take the test to help us make it even better. If you don't like s9y, take the test - so we can change s9y so you will like it :-)

Did you just sign up and did not receive your activation key yet? No problem, you can have the key sent again. Also, the mailing system has been modified to be a lot more robust to make sure the activation key doesn't end up in your spam folder. Enjoy!

Due to the increased serverpoweer we received the other day, I just reopened the signup page of supersized.org. Go on, get your free blog :-)

Thanks to the support of the nice folks over at AOE media GmbH supersized.org got some more manserver power. Apart from drastic performance improvements you should not not any difference, except within the next few days. Until the nameservers spread all over the world have noticed the server change, requests to supersized.org are being tunneled from the old server to the new one. Through this tunnel, things like the upload to the media library may not work properly. If you encounter this problem, please just wait a day or two, and everything should be good. If you notice any other quirks, such as plugins not working or your blog not displaying like you want it to - please let me know and write a post in the supersized forums at s9y.org.

The "Modern World" template has just been integrated to the supersized.org system. Feel free to give it a try, it's a great looking theme:

Each blog is a personal site, and your visitors want to know who's words they're reading! Therefore I have installed the "static pages" plugin for all of you. It allows you, obviously, to create static pages: Popular ones are topics like About me, Contact Information and Photos. Some templates already contain links to these pages. If your template does not display these links, you can add a HTML-Nugget plugin and paste the following code into it:

<ul>
<li><a href="/about.html" title="About me">About me</a></li>
<li><a href="/contact.html" title="Contact information">Contact me</a></li>
<li><a href="/photos.html" title="Picutres">Pictures</a></li>
</ul>

Enjoy the rest of the sunday :-)

Just to let you all know, I have removed the mandatory google-ads in your sidebar that was displayed all the time. Instead I have moved the ads to the detail-pages of each entry where they will be displayed right below the entry. The entries on your overview-page are ads free!

Please tell me what you think of this, as it is not final - I'm just giving different possibilities a try :-)

Also I have been thinking about a "reward" system: The more entries you write, the less ads are displayed. How does that sound? I don't want to upset my "power users" :-)

Dear supersized.org users,

as you may have already noticed, each blog now displays a subtile advertisement top of the actual content. I moved it there to see if it works better than the tiny google ad block that is currently sitting in the sidebar. Please tell me if you can live with the way it is now, or if it annoys the hell out of you. :-)

If I end up keeping it up there, the little google ad block in your sidebar entitled "bling" will of course disappear.

I'm looking forward to your opinions, either here as a comment or through email.

Thanks for your time,
Jannis.

Writing a blog but nobody reads it? These times are over, as with every new entry you write, a screenshot of your blog will appear on each page of www.supersized.org. The screenshots are created via sitesnat.ch, a great place to make web screenshots/homepage thumbnails. :-)

I'll also add a dedicated page that lists recently posted blog entries at supersized.org and a search form, for your convenience. If you have other features to suggest, feel free to tell me about it.

Take care!

If you had trouble changing the title and description of your blog (changes would not appear to users, only to admin) - sorry for that! It was a little bug that made it into s9y, but it has been fixed and you guys should now be able to get rid of this lame default-blog-title. :-)

Enjoy!

Just a short note that I have upgraded the s9y-version in use, we're now again up to current svn. That means all subscribers are enjoying s9y 1.0-alpha1. If you note anything unusual, please tell me. As usual ;-)

For all people on a Mac out there: I just fixed the bug, that wouldn't let you upload images to your media library with Safari.

Have fun!