Another bug has been hunted down and squished.  It turned out that certain malformed BBCode tags could throw the parser into a loop, producing 2GB - yes, two gigabyte - web pages and eventually making the software fall over and restart.

I've fixed the bug and added code to track the page size and stop it before it gets out of hand.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 09:27 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 65 words, total size 1 kb.

If you've been having trouble with your Atom feeds the last few days, the problem has now been fixed.  The new feature that allowed you to use custom feed templates per folder had the slight flaw of breaking the automatically generated feeds...

I also fixed a small bug that potentially could have caused problems with some readers, so mee.nu Atom feeds (and RSS feeds!) now validate cleanly at the Feed Validator.


more...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:07 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 103 words, total size 1 kb.

Hi everyone.  Just another mini-outage (less than 5 minutes) to update the forum module again.  After that, I'll be creating the mee.nu support forums, and then posting details on how you can create forums of your own.

Update: Successful.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:51 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
Post contains 47 words, total size 1 kb.

Happy Independence Day to all our American users and readers!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:44 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 14 words, total size 1 kb.

Hi everyone!  Multiple author support is now in place.

To enable it, follow these 3 easy steps:

1. Click on the Friends group in your edit screen.
2. Create a new group called Authors.
3. Add your friend to the new Authors group using either their user name or blog address.  (They must sign up to mee.nu first!)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:52 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
Post contains 55 words, total size 1 kb.

Hi all.

We'll be having a brief outage (again, this should be no more than 5 minutes) for updates to the new forum module.  We have a beta tester for this, and after we shake the bugs out a bit I'll be rolling it out to everyone.  Give it a week or so.

This update will also enable multiple authors for your blog, something that I know a few people have been waiting for.  I'll post instructions on how to enable this (don't worry, it's easy!) once the code is in place.

Oh yes - if you're looking for past notices, they're moved to the Tech folder after 24 hours.

Update: Okay, the code update is in place, and doesn't seem to have broken everything.  Now I just need to upload the new templates to give access to the new features...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:03 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
Post contains 148 words, total size 1 kb.

We'll be having a brief outage today for a code and database update.  This should only last approximately 5 minutes.

Update: All done, and just inside the 5 minute mark. You shouldn't see anything untowards, but please let me know if you do.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:21 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
Post contains 50 words, total size 1 kb.

We're having a little difficulty with one of our servers.  I've dropped that server from rotation while I fix it, but some users might still get assigned to that server by their ISP's DNS cache.  That will resolve itself within four hours; I'm expecting to get the problem itself fixed sooner than that.

Update: Fixed now.  The server involved lost its NFS mount for some reason; it's been rebooted and put back into operation.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:50 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
Post contains 76 words, total size 1 kb.

In July mee.nu will be introducing paid accounts as an option. You are welcome to keep your ad-supported account, but paid accounts will come with a few benefits:

• No ads on your site
• No ads when you view other mee.nu sites
• Use your own domain instead of (or as well as) a mee.nu domain
• Podcast support and access to the mee.fm servers

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:12 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 117 words, total size 2 kb.

Thanks to all of you who have helped us shake out at least some of the bugs over the last few weeks, mee.nu has now gone live. 

So if you haven't done so already, join now.  It's free!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:26 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 39 words, total size 1 kb.