Site improvement

Limiting posts' scope

Wayne — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:32:50 -0400

If you want to limit the scope of your posts to just trusted members of TuscanyCircle, select the category named "Trusted" when you create the post. Make sure this it the only category you choose (because everybody can see all the other categories and they're ORed). For example, if you wish to discuss something of a somewhat personal nature, this would keep the post (and its comments) out of RSS feeds and search engines, and off the website unless the reader is logged in and trusted user. » read more »

Email Notification

Wayne — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:10:20 -0400

After some extensive work on the Notify module of TuscanyCircle, and after its long absence, I've re-enabled email notifications for trusted users. If you go into your account (click "account" on the top-center menu), you should see a tab for "my notify settings" or something like that. You can choose to enable or disable notifications as well as include new posts and/or new comments. » read more »

We're back--again

Wayne — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:10:16 -0400

TuscanyCircle is back again. We went offline for registered users (anything that used SSL for access) for over an hour due to a mistake by my hosting service. All should be well now. Let me know if you see anything not working fully, though.

Recent changes

Wayne — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:46:40 -0500

TuscanyCircle has undergone some minor changes recently. First, you'll notice the link colors have changed. Next, you should notice that the URL for its "All nodes" feed has changed from http://tuscanycircle.net/node/... to http://tuscanycircle.net/view/.... The former is now named "Front Page" and does not contain all new content but only that which has been promoted to the front pages. » read more »

Stay current with TuscanyCircle

Wayne — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:53:53 -0500

If you'd like to stay current with new content added to TuscanyCircle (blogs, forum posts, comments, shouts), there are three RSS feeds to which you should subscribe:

"all nodes"
"all comments"
"shoutbox"

There are listed as feeds on every page (under Firefox' feed icon, for example) as well as under the "rss" menu item for your convenience. The "Front Page" feed only catches those nodes promoted to the front page.

If you're new to RSS, try this brief tutorial. » read more »

Broken links

Wayne — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:45:36 -0500

If you find any links on TuscanyCircle that appear to be broken, let me know. So far, they've all been caused by news articles and such that were removed by the linked site. You gotta wonder why they might do that! Sometimes I can find copies of the missing articles online and restore them locally. The major media obviously fails in its job of holding our rulers accountable, so it's up to the blogosphere to perform this duty--except that we have to hold the media itself accountable, too.

New server now

Wayne — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:00:26 -0500

TuscanyCircle is now on its new server. Hopefully, the new and improved hardware and software services will make this site better (e.g., faster). Please let me know immediately if you notice anything wrong with the site as a result of the move. » read more »

Oops

Wayne — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:03:14 -0500

I have unintentionally deleted several, old forum posts. They are not recoverable.

I was cleaning up the forum structure and changing the node types for some of them. Unfortunately, and unknown to me, when changing the type from forum (to anything else), there was still a little forum-ness left behind. When the forum category--now seemingly empty--was deleted, these previously forum-type nodes were found and dutifully deleted. Apparently, this is a bug in the module I use to change node types. I'm disabling that until it can be fixed.

In the meantime, if you know of a node that has been deleted (found a link, searched, etc.) and are able to find its cached version (Google caches what it finds), please send me the text, and I'll recreate it. I'm doing this on a few nodes I know were deleted incorrectly. » read more »

Slow; move

Wayne — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:34:35 -0500

TuscanyCircle is quite slow presently. This is due to the breach of contract our new NOC provider has made (virtual servers instead of dedicated). We'll be changing NOC providers soon (before year's end, I expect). In the meantime, please be patient. » read more »

Privacy, labeling

Wayne — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:08:50 -0500

The privacy policy and ICRA label have been brought up to date. Let me know if you have any issues with them.