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Did I mention this already?
If you are a page owner you can turn on 'substitutions' near the bottom of [editpage]. With this on you can add post, editpage, and create links in any permanent text area (left text or top text for 2 column table pages) by putting
_post_
_editpage_
_create_
into those permaent text areas. These will be replaced with post, editpage, and create links only in those cases where the visitor has those specific powers. Other visitors won't see anything.
To force a line break after each one add a * to the end like:
_post_*
So this line will make the three links one on top of the other for people that have those powers, but won't make anything for people that don't:
_post_*_editpage_*_create_*
Not a big deal, but it can be useful to get those links closer to the top of your page so you don't have to scroll to the bottom navigation line.
OK, you can revert to the old new comment style (one thread at a time) in [settings]. Also there is a a 1 column table template now if you are [create]ing new pages which will center your text (or pictures.)
You can see the 10 most recently updated pages on the site at this url:
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/mostrecent/.
Visitors to the site see this link from the front page. Is that a good idea? Does it look weird? How could it look better? (Yeah, you'll have to log out to see it like they would.)
There was a bug where [edit] links for posts would not work if you were viewing a /newcomments/ page. Should work now.
As Dave and others noticed, the clock was off by 14 minutes (when making posts or comments.) Of course I tried to say it was the server, even though that's a ridiculously unlikely scenario. Of course it was my code. 5 hours is 28800 seconds, not 28000. D'oh. My math is O.K., it's the typing skills that need a little work. I never got real good at the numbers.
As Tom had noticed, there was a bug that would drop your page from the home page of anonymous surfers. This would happen if you used [editpage]. Fixed now.
Clicking [subscriptions] from the front page gets you a list of all pages where you can make subscription changes to groups of pages at one time (this was around before, but it works better now.) One problem before was that there are literally hundreds of pages that you probably never need to adjust you subscriptions to, yet they appeared in this list making it hard to find the pages you were looking for. So while you can still get this complete list, /subscriptions now defaults to just showing you the major pages on the site (with a link so that you can reload it showing every page.)
There is now an option in [editpage] called 'listed (in /subscriptions)'. This is what controls whether your page shows up as one of the major pages. Maybe 'major' isn't the right word. Anyway, set this however you want, depending on whether you think people's subscriptions to that page are likely to need changing.
Some documentation has actually been written. More is on the way.
Here are a couple quick things you might want to know:
[add user] (/user) is much improved. You should feel free to add new users to the system yourself. You just give a name and email on the first page, and then you get a second page where you can completely select all powers and tracking and what's on the homepage for the new user.
/subscriptions now lets you put pages on your home page as well as clear any hanging posts or comments on individual pages.
/settings now lets you set the number of hours you are from greenwhich mean time. We all default to -5 (nyc time) but you could make it whatever you want. I haven't experimented too much with this, so I'd like some feedback from any non east coasters. (The server time does seem to be a 14 minutes off. I'm looking into this. I don't think it's related to this feature.)
You can also change your name and email in /settings
/subscribe for individual pages works much better now. You can receive notification for new posts and/or new comments, and you can choose to just get a link in the email, or the plaintext of the post (or comment) itself. And best of all, you can actually unsubscribe now!
Problems are already appearing.
I'll have to think about how to handle this. It may not even be a bug. Anyway, when you create new pages, there is now an expanded facility to create the new page just like a page that already exists. When you do this the system makes the page in the same style (chronological,alphabetical,numeric,) copies the style sheet, copies any permanent text (left_text, top_text,) and also copies all the subscription information.
What just happened now (I'm guessing) is that alex made a new page using this cloning method - but he cloned /arboretum, so we all ended up having the new page on our front page (because it copied all the subscription information from arboretum, and we all have arboretum on our home pages.)
Perhaps cloning is too powerful. Maybe it shouldn't copy subscriptions too. I'm not sure. Anyway, just be aware that when you create a new page "just like" an older page, it really will be just like it.
We're back.
No doubt there will be problems. What the hell do you want for free?
So let me know if anything seems amiss and I will correct it asap.
I still have the old system, of course, and multiple copies of the old database, so if somebody finds a show stopper bug we can easily go back.
I wouldn't doubt it at all if things were screwed up in early browsers.
More new stuff coming this week.