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I'm going to start deleting references to unread comments that are more than one month old. (Right now if you don't read comments on a page, and that page is listed on your homepage, the new comment count just continues to grow without end.)
Any objections or problems with this? Should it be longer than a month?
Well, I really screwed up. Everyone's home page information was lost. I have restored a basic list of pages to everyone's home page, but you'll have to tweak it from there. Click [subscriptions] at the bottom of the front page, and you can add, remove, or reorder from there. Unfortunately, the order tweaking still seems to suffer from some strange bugs. But I'm too tired now to work more on it. I'll be on the case in the morning, and I'll appreciate any feedback. So let me know what you're seeing...
And again, sorry.
Lots of work on the main /subscription page today. There are still some weird problems with reordering. And in all my experimenting today I think I might have reordered some of your pages as well. Sorry. That, at least, shouldn't happen again. Still have more to do though. Quitting for today.
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.