Technical

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 :-)

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!

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.

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!

Hey folks, I just bumped the version from beta-1 to the current svn snapshot, we're back on the bleeding edge :-) For you, of course, this means nothing but pure configuration pleasure again.

If you weren't able to use the "Configuration" item of the "Administration" section in your blog, I can assure you that this limitation should no longer prevent you from doing nice things like adjusting your blog's headline, time offset (to match your local timezone), and so on.

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 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!

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):

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...