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Hey guys, just a short note that some glitches have been removed and the software has been updated. You're now running 0.9-beta1, and the user-management should be working like a charm again. Thanks to all the people who reported this problem...

As usual, if you have anything in your blog you want to complain about, this is where all threatening letters go ;)

Last night the server started getting a little cranky. We are assuming there's something funky going on with the hardware (cpu? ram?) and working on it. The server is back right now, but don't rely on it too much for now...

I'll let you know about any news once I got 'em. Sorry for any inconvenience.

It had to happen sooner or later. There has been a rush of trackback spam on blogs hosted at supersized.org. As it lies in the nature of trackbacks to be submitted automatically, by a machine, the sophisticated anti-spam mechanisms that work so well for normal user-comments can not be applied.

I have therefore deactivated trackback-comments for all blogs on supersized.org, except for those, who have changed the settings for comments submitted via the API. Their setting is now "moderate" which means they receive an email for each trackback that has been made. The trackback won't appear on your blog until you have allowed it to be displayed.

Sorry for "removing" the trackback feature, but I assume you don't want to have 300 emails a day that contain a moderation request for trackback spam.

If you want to cope with that and enable your visitors to submit trackbacks, blog-configuration page, click "Configure Plugins", scroll down and select the "Spam protector" plugin and adjust the "How to treat comments made via APIs" setting.

UPDATE:

To make things clear, some more words. Only "incoming" trackbacks have been blocked. If you write an entry and reference another website or blog-entry, your supersized-blog will still send out trackbacks and announce entries on blog-syndication sites (if you want it to).

Due to some potential vulnerabilities in the BBCode Plugin the s9y-version powering supersized.org has been upgraded and a bug has been fixed that prevented users from adding a comment to an entry. This bug appeared on another update the day before yesterday (thanks for reporting, supersized.org/" title="Dennis' supersized-blog">Dennis).

Apart from that, I have added a supersized.org" href="http://www.supersized.org/people.php">people section on supersized.org - it currently contains the last 20 posts that have been published via supersized.org. As there are more than 400 blogs registered with supersized.org" title="free blog hosting">supersized.org, I will add a search interface to find blogs, a top 10 list and more soon in the future. It's about time.

Happy blogging!

I have just fixed supersized.org/archives/5-WYSIWYG-editor-popups.html">this bug where the popups of the WYSIWYG-editor did not contain what they should. Happy linking!

I've bumped the s9y-installation to beta5. If you experience problems, email me: jannis@gmail.com

Comment Spam? Referrer Spam? Trackback Spam? No, Blog-Spam! That's what's up! Check out supersized.org/">http://safferthal.supersized.org/, this guy named Rainer Safferthal (he's from Waiblingen, germany) signed up for supersized.org and used his blog to push his page-rank. Poor guy. He's also been abusing the services of log.ag, blog.de, blogspot.com, and blogg.de.

Hump the punk!

I have just udpated the s9y installation powering your blog to s9y-0.8b2. If you note anything abnormal, please let me know.Whats new? There is a german and an english article that will tell you :-)

Good night!

Can't approve trackbacks or don't see comments in the "Comments" section of the administration suit? This is due to the userlevel people at supersized.org have by default. It currently doesn't allow for moderating comments and trackbacks. If you received a email announcing a comment or trackback to your blog you wish to be approved, drop me a mail and we'll work it out.

Some buttons in the toolbar of the WYSIWYG editor open popup windows which do not contain what they should, but the supersized.org homepage.

Something on my server is spawning freaking wild httpds every once in a while. I haven't found a clear cause yet, but I am thinking it's the coWiki serving www.s9y.org. It looked so promising and is actually a really neat piece of wiki-software, but unfortunately has been a rude wiki a couple of times already, and I don't know of anything else that could be the cause. The cause for what, you wonder?

System loads of 90 and more. The funny thing is, that while the load explodes, the number of processes doesn't peak at all, and while the memory usage rises it doesn't go as crazy. Check this out (and the screenshot above, of course):

There still isn't: An overview of all blogs hosted at supersized.org. I'll add that soon :)

There is: A RSS-Feed with all entries posted by supersized.org users within the last 48h merged into one feed: http://www.supersized.org/rss/48h.xml. Still working on it, still beta, but I figured I'd let you know!

The titles still feel a little bit cheesy, but I didn't know a better place to put them. Would they be better at the end of each excerpt? I'll play around with this. If you have tips/suggestions/request, lemme know!

Alright alright, sorry for the borked media-library. It was supposed to show a little preview of each image instead of this yellow box. Well, it was a bug in s9y and I fixed it. There are still some issues with the WYSIWYG editor, but I am working on that. But make sure you click the "Rebuild Thumbs" button in your blog-administration.

That's it for tonight...

I just found this cool site where you can host your own blog for free and signed up! Yes very funny. I will keep you updated about anything that happens here at supersized.org (mostly interesting for subscribers).