Registration Hiccup

Hi everyone.

I know that two of you experienced problems while registering, and your sites should be working properly now.

The bug has been fixed, but if anyone is still experiencing problems - particularly if you're seeing an error saying something like "No template matching (something)" - let me know and I'll update the templates for your site.

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Very Unplanned Outage

Hi, and welcome to all the new beta testers.

As you probably noticed, we had an outage just a few hours after I invited you to join us. Sorry about that!

I've configured the system to automatically restart within a minute of any failure, and I'll be configuring automated alerts as well.  (We're too small to have a 24x7 technical staff just yet.)

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Quick Note

I've updated the session tracking system for both mee.nu and beta.mu.nu, which means everyone got logged out at once.  Just log back in, and everything should be back to normal.  Only... better.

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New Toys

A new set of features has been uploaded to mee.nu, ready for our full-scale beta test.  You'll see new options for managing your posts, files, folders, templates and directories, automatic RSS and Atom feeds, site statistics, and a host of other bells and whistles.

And a much improved file upload screen:



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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 09:58 AM | Comments (14) | Add Comment
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Dates and Times

Your Manage Site page has options to select a timezone for your blog, and to choose formatting options for dates, times, and "datetimes". (A "datetime" is used where both the date and the time should be displayed together.)

The timezone should be self-explanatory; options for formatting dates and times are described in detail below.

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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:24 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
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Conditions, Calculations and Variables

Conditional Tags

[if], [ifn], [iff], and [iffn].

[if] tests a single variable. If that variable exists and has a true (non-zero / non-null / non-empty) value, the template code within the bracket of the [if] and the [/if] is evaluated.

If the variable is false (zero / null / empty), the code is not evaluated.

And if the variable does not exist, the [if] tag itself is not evaluated, and is instead included directly in the output. So if you get the name of the variable wrong, and type [if post.coments] instead of [if post.comments], you will be able to see your mistake right there in the page. In this case, the bracketed code is processed as if the [if] tag did not exist.

[ifn] works exactly the same, except that the condition is reversed. Code inside the [ifn] [/ifn] is evaluated if the variable is false.

With [if] and [ifn], if the variable does not exist the behaviour of a following [else] statement is undefined.

[iff] and [iffn] are similar, with one big exception: The bracketed code is evaluated if and only if the variable evaluates to true (or false, for [iffn]). If the variable does not exist, the code is skipped, just as if the variable had been false.
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Allow Comments / Allow Pings Flags

Damn, I wish I'd had that working before I launched the beta.  Anyway, 8000+ threads and nearly 600 templates updated, and these flags now work.  (Or seem to work for me, anyway.)

I've removed the Locked, Hidden and System flags for the time being, because they're not very useful. (Locked currently has the same effect as turning off comments, and Hidden and System can be achieved by setting the status to Draft.)

Let me know if you have any problems with the comments following this update.  If you can't comment at all, email me at andrew -at- pixymisa -dot- net and let me know.

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Smile!

If you don't like the standard set of smilies, no need to frown!

Just hop on over to smilies.mee.nu and pick whichever smiley set that takes your fancy.  Copy the text in the box and paste it into your Smilies template and viola!

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BBCode Examples

One of the features built into mee.nu is BBCode support.  You can use this in both posts and comments.

Examples for all the currently supported tags are in the extended entry.
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