Sorry about the outage just now, and the couple of database hiccups we've had in the past week (which you may not have noticed, as I was able to fix things pretty quickly).

I thought we had a hardware problem with the new server, but it turns out instead to be a software problem - a bug is causing one of the applications on the server to use up all the memory.  All of it, including memory that other applications would like to use.  When that happens, Minx and/or MySQL can get shut down without warning.

I should have this fixed very soon.  In the meantime, now that I know what the problem is, the worst case will be a few minutes to reboot the server and check the database and we'll be up and running again.

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Merry Christmas!

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We had a hiccup with the session management system, and it looks like it was dropping people's logins, so that you would see messages such as You are not authorised to access this page.  when a moment ago everthing was working fine.

A quick restart seems to have fixed the problem, but we're still checking to see what caused it in the first place.  If it happens to you, leave a comment here - you can still comment even if you can't log in - and we'll make sure it's fixed as soon as humany possible.

Update: Still happening, still working on it.

Update: I've temporarily disabled the code that cleans up expired sessions.  Let's see if that does the trick.

Update: It seems to be fixed now.  If you do still have problems, you can leave a comment here or email help@mee.nu, and I'll take another look at it.

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Hi everyone.  We're ready to put our fancy new server online, and we'll be down for 10-15 minutes while we do this.  Sorry about the incovenience, but we'll have twice the blogging capacity once we're done.

Update: Completed in exactly 15 minutes.   And it looks like everything went smoothly.  Enjoy!

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Another short outage for applying more Minx 1.2 database changes.  Downtime should be 5-10 minutes.

We have a slightly longer outage coming up as we add a new server to the cluster.  I'll post details once the date and time is firm; downtime for that work should be on the order of half an hour.

Update: Completed in 11 minutes (8 minutes for the changes, 3 minutes to restart the application and test).

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So you've found a video on Youtube and you'd like to add it to a post?  No problem!



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Our post still looks a bit plain, so let's dress it up with a picture. Click on Upload in the menu, and then select the Images folder and click Browse:



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Once you've signed up and logged in, you'll be presented with a page looking very much like this:



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There's a new BBCode tag in town - two tags, in fact - and the name of the game is slideshows.

[slideshow {group=groupid} {size=expression|resize=expression} {title=text} {alt=text}]
[slide=path {group=groupid} {size=expression|resize=expression} {title=text} {alt=text}]

The [slide] tag works very much like the [img] tag.  The difference is that instead of simply embedding an image in your page, it creates a thumbnail for the image and a link that will bring up the full-size image as part of a slideshow.  (You'll need to update your blog to 1.1 to get the full effect, but the thumbnail and link will work on older sites.)

The [slideshow] tag lets you set up the default values for a slideshow.  The group can be used if you want to have two separate slideshows in a post; simple give them different ID's.  The size or resize value can be used to automatically make all your thumbnails the same size, sparing you from specifying this each time.

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Just a quick outage to do some database changes for the upcoming 1.2 release.  Downtime should be less than five minutes.

Update: Done!

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