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The subscription system has been pretty seriously overhauled. This is connected to the recent overhaul of the add a new user function.
In any case, I know there was always some confusion about pages listed on the front page (and how to control this.) I think it is much more straightforward now. Click [subscriptions] from the front page (or from this link) and you can check it out. It's pretty slow, but that's because there are so many pages.
In the pursuit of simplicity you no longer choose to track posts and/or comments. Now it simply works that any page on your home page will have both posts and comments tracked. Any page not on your home page will have no tracking.
Feedback is appreciated.
Thanks to Bruno I think I founder a pretty major bug where posts made as previews and then later edited and turned into live posts weren't registering as new posts for subscribers to that page. This might have been introduced fairly recently as I made some changes to how that system works. Anyway, should be fixed now.
I might have just introduced some weirdness into the new post counters in some specific situations. If you suddenly have a really big number of unread posts on a page, just click through once to the page (don't click on the [4888 new posts] link, just click through on the page link itself.) When you reload the front page the weirdness will be gone.
Sorry. This was unavoidable as I make some backend changes. Might not effect everyone.
Oh yeah, you can change your password in /settings now.
Some changes lately. A few more things coming. So far:
/admin is now a little different. You don't see every subscriber (because really, who cares,) but only people who can post and/or create sub pages. So for most pages this will just be you.
guests who choose a name when commenting can now check a box to be remembered. This automatically makes them a basic account and sets a cookie.
/user ([add user]) is now simplified. And it allows you to make a page for the person. Please use this. I'd love to see more people on the site.
I know Tom alerted me to this a long time ago, but it was never fixed. If you have a comment thread with more than 1 comment, and you delete 1 comment from it, the link on your page will go back to zero comments ([add a comment]) even though there are still comments in the thread. Adding a new comment would reinstate the correct count, but of course you shouldn't have to do that.
Anyway, I believe this is now fixed.
Apparently there is a bug in PHP which makes file uploads very slow. I'm trying to work around this by using perl instead. Hopefully I can solve this problem.
Initial tests of the music upload (and download) system are looking positive. I should have a rough version up by this evening. We've got a lot of bandwidth going to waste.
Weird. The mysql (database) server went down. Not sure why. That doesn't seem too good. It's restarted now, and appears to be OK.
My heartfelt appologies to Jim Louis. After the most recent system change, Email from NOLA was accidently dropped from the front page for non signed in people. My friend Pam from Montana wrote complaining about this, as it is her favorite page. This is now fixed. Sorry sorry sorry.