1 Moron requests help. Am trying to post with an embedded link
Example : Type in "Read an interesting article at Breitbart   today and thought you might like a look" and expect it to display as "Read an interesting article at Breitbart today and thought you might like a look"(making the word Breitbart a hyperlink). Instead it displays all the html (or BBCODE). What am I doing wrong?

2 If you just type the HTML into the editor, it will display the HTML code.

There are three ways to insert a link:

Use BBCode - that should work fine.
Use the little link icon in the toolbar: Select the text you want to make into a link, click on the "Hyperlink" icon (looks like a little chain), and type or paste the URL into the pop-up box.

Or (and I generally don't recommend this), use the HTML editor.  Click on the <> icon and you'll get a pop-up window where you can directly edit the HTML.  It works fine, but most people won't want to do that.

3

That's a defense measure against spammers and hostiles who try to screw up a page by embedding HTML in comments. What he's done is to make it so that the left-angle-bracket character gets escaped (turned into "&lt;") so that it doesn't trigger the browser's formatting engine.

That way the only HTML that users like you are permitted to use are the ones supported by the editor or by BBCODE, which is a carefully circumscribed list that doesn't open up vulnerabilities.

4 Pixy, bug alert: Brickmuppet made a post whose title consists of three katakana characters. There doesn't seem to be any way to link directly to it; the link that should go to the post goes to the top page. Presumably that would also be the case if other non-Roman alphabets were used.

5 Another bug alert, while I'm at it: I just looked at my "site statistics" page, and the numbers for the "template" row are completely bogus. Whatever it's supposed to mean, this probably isn't the right answer: 92233720368523288563304384

6 I got an email from Brickmuppet; I'm looking into that.

And yeah, there's something that throws the stats out; that happened to me too.  Integer underflow, maybe.  I'll see if I can find it.

7 Hi Steven.  I've fixed the bug with non-Latin characters in post titles; this will now generate a numeric URL (which you can manually override).

Still poking at the stats glitch.  It's certainly not anything obvious.

8 Hi Pixy, is the stats page supposed to be working for everybody? My "Statistics" link still puts me back to http://oldgrouch.mee.nu/edit/

9 Yeah, it's supposed to be working.

I'll take another look.  Thought I had that one fixed.

10

Pixy, somehow there was a partial post of a comment I was composing in this thread. (Unfortunately, the prose is loaded with spoilers about Shingu, and I'm sorry about that.)

I don't have any idea how it happened, especially since they both have the same timestamp. (At least to the minute.)

11 Thanks Steven.  Unfortunately there's not much to go on there; the two comments were received one second apart, but nothing really shows me why the first one was cut off or why the second one wasn't.

There's a retry-on-error system built into Minx now, but it shouldn't be happening on an HTTP POST.

Oh. Hmm.  All the text data for mee.nu (including posts and comments) is stored in MyISAM tables - which have no transaction support.  If there was an error during an insert, the Minx Query module would automatically re-connect to the database and retry the insert, but it's not smart enough to check if the original insert was partially successful.

Roll on MySQL 6.0 and the Falcon storage engine!

12

Small bug report: When I enter a new post, at the bottom I'm told that there are 1281 comments, which I presume is the total number of comments on my blog so far. Once I finish and post it, then if I look again it says 0, which is right.

That 1281 seems wrong, somehow. It's not really serious, but it could confuse people.

13 Ah, thanks.  I hadn't noticed that one.

14 Pixy, sent you an email.

15 Is there a way to make the search field search titles as well as the body of the email?

16 Not just yet, but I'm in the middle of reworking the search function right now.  Should be up in a few days (unless I run into a problem) - definitely before Christmas!

17 Pixy, how do I make my site title (MLynn's Whippet House) smaller?  It runs off the right.  Thanks, MLynn aka Mikki

18 Hi MLynn!

You want the Style Images option.  Choose your starter image, change the font size to something a little smaller, and click on save.

You might need to do a forced reload (hold down shift and click the refresh/reload button) to get the new banner to display right away.

19

My sidebar has disappeared; I no longer have my comments, my blogroll, or my archives.  Could you let me know what can be done? I would send you an e-mail, but I have no idea what server AOL uses.

Thanks!

Tim Birdnow

www.tbirdnow.mee.nu

20 My comments editor is cutting off the check boxes, making it impossible to delete spam comments. Any help would be appreciated.

Tim Birdnow

www.tbirdnow.mee.nu

1

I think the "awaiting comments" mechanism you've set up isn't well considered. There are a number of problems with it.

First, it isn't even obvious that it's happened. The only reason I knew about that one today was because someone else noticed the number mismatch.

Second, there isn't any way for me to look at such a comment to decide whether to let it through. I have to enable it in order to see it.

I don't really see any benefit in having a three-tier system. Either delete the comment entirely as spam or let it through. But if you choose to continue with a three-tier system, there needs to be a way to directly alert the blog owner that a comment has been held, and to let them view it and decide whether to let it through.

2

That should have been "awaiting moderation", not "awaiting comments".

3 Fair enough.

First two points I agree with absolutely.  I'll address those ASAP.

Third point I'll think about.

4 While you're thinking, another question

Is the "comments" folder directory (http://oldgrouch.mee.nu/edit/comment/) supposed to show all comments, or only the recent ones? Mine presently shows two comments written on July, but there are others from April and May that are still visible on the site.

5 Um.  Okay, that's a bug, and I know why it's happening.  Tricky to fix though...  Oh, no it isn't.  Aha!  I'll get that fixed for the next update.

6 Whattheheck are you doing working on Sunday? ;-)

(Yah, I know I'm replying on Sunday, but I'm a blogger and therefore have no life...)

7

Bug alert: Right now at "Ego's Nest" the top comment on the side bar has a toasted "Entry" URL. It's a comment by Wonderduck that begins "Good lord, am I a dope." The "Entry" URL is this:

http://avatar.mee.nu/641057

 I have no idea where that might have come from, but it isn't a link to anything.

8 That's actually a notabug.  It really is a working link.  My guess is that Avatar originally either left the title off that post or titled it in Japanese.  In that case, the system uses the post ID as the link, and since I loaded the Jawa Report and Ace of Spades into Minx, post IDs are indeed in the 600k range.

9

My brand new Category listing files don't show comments for any of my posts. Even if I click to access the page for the post, there are no comments.

I understand why they're not inline; the category listing files are already ridiculously long. But why can't I see the comments by clicking through to the individual entries?

10

OK, I figured out something. The main page links to article pages at the root, but the category page adds an entry in the URL. So:

http://chizumatic.mee.nu/help_the_economy_spend_spend_spend

becomes

http://chizumatic.mee.nu/daily_life/help_the_economy_spend_spend_spend

The first one has comments. The second one does not.

I'm going to try changing the category definition to get rid of that extra path entry. It's set up automatically, but maybe I don't want it that way.

11 Actually, no I'm not. I'm a bit afraid to mess with it.

12 I really should investigate more before I post. It's only the posts I retroactively categorized which have this problem. But that's peculiar, because even the new posts which do show comments in the category listing still have the dual paths.

13 Another problem with categories: Try going to the bottom of this one and pressing the "more" link on the earliest post. It doesn't expand the individual post; it just redisplays the category listing.

14 I think they're all part of the same problem.  I should have a fix by tomorrow.

15 Just now it took three tries to enter a comment at Teresa's. First two times tried previewing first, and it just disappeared. Third try worked by posting without preview.

Am logged on to mee.nu, but don't have cookies enabled for her site.

The preview function worked for this comment, except for the long-time bug of it blanking the "Web" field.

16

Am logged on to mee.nu, but don't have cookies enabled for her site.

That'll do it.

The preview function worked for this comment, except for the long-time bug of it blanking the "Web" field.

Yeah, it does that because you're logged in, and don't have a web address registered against your username.  I should fix that.

17 This also might be of interest:

Who the heck is wonderduck and why is it every time I come here Minx thinks that I am it and that I'm logged in?

and

Remember when I came over here and was logged in as wonderduck? Well, I did what you suggested and logged out. Worked like a charm!

BUT now every time I come over to comment I have to again log out of that name... just something else for Pixy to work on.

More fun for the developer's copious spare time ;-)

18 Thanks.  That is very strange.

19 Just lost the old post due to my clumsy fingers.

My custom is to surf with Java and cookies off. This has saved me much trouble, and I have gotten in trouble when I forgot. I post here with both on.

Normally I right click/open in new tab the date stamp, and this works for me. While surfing Steven den Beste's site, I opened his never watch category, and then tried to open the gundum post at the top. It instead displayed the category view all over again.

While trying to replicate, I was able to access the first post in Old Grouch's Administrivia category, and the first in my lessons learned category.

20 Yes, I think this was a bug that existed when Steven was setting up his categories; it was fixed afterwards, but left some links on Steven's site non-functional.   I'll be fixing this soon.

21 It would be Very Nice Indeed if when someone on one of these blogs has comments on a subject disabled that the "add comment" link is no longer present and/or clickable on that entry.

Clicking "add comment" to get a page that says "comments disabled" is exceedingly annoying.

22

Hi Pixie!

I have a regular commenter on my site from Germany who is complaining that his comments aren't getting through, but are being flagged as "awaiting moderation".  He's getting on me about it, so I thought I would ask you what is happening. I am set up for unlimited comments.  I assume this is some sort of spam filter?

Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks!

1 Okay, so I created a link:
http://oldgrouch.mee.nu/archive/2007/MAY
(also tried "may" and "May")
but when I click it, I get "no such archive available."
Obviously I need something on the backend, but what? (Didn't think it would be that simple!)

2 Oops!  I should have been more specific!

You want http://oldgrouch.mee.nu/archive/2007/5

3 Aha! Thanks!

1 Discovered this error this morning. It appears BBCode is leaking into the stylesheet.

Error: Expected declaration but found '['. Skipped to next declaration.
Source file: http://oldgrouch.mee.nu/css/site.css Line: 254

The offending line, with the one before:
.sidebar {
[if style.block.sidebar.color.background]background-color: [style.block.sidebar.color.background];[/if]

Can't seem to access this file directly. (I assume it's generated by the style editor; above is copy-n-paste from browser's error console.) FWIW, I haven't done anything with my sidebar color.

2 Oops.  Thanks, I'll fix that.

1 Attempting to follow the 'quickstart' directions to copy the mee.nu css file...it is failing to upload, although directly pasting the url into the browser shows I've got the right place.  [No error message, the upload page refreshes and clears the field.  Nothing appears in the css folder though]

2 Sorry, I missed this question earlier!  I'll take a look and get back to you.

3 I'm trying to add some categories, enable category tags to be seen in the individual post, and possibly have category icons.

None of my experiments in these areas has resulted in anything except this message...

You are not a manager for this site. Shoo.

I haven't been able to add a category for a couple of days.

4 Oops!  Let me fix that for you...

Okay, you have access to your own folders again.  Sorry about that! ops:

That was part of the multiple authors update; I forgot to list the site owner in one of the access checks.

5 I too have an oops....How can I reset my template settings to default...(I have....errred)

6 Can you still access the edit screens?  I can post any of the standard templates, if the one you want isn't already in the resources page.

7

I'd like to add an item in my right column called Cast of Characters that introduces readers to the people I write about.

I'm not sure if this would involve folders, templates, or some combination thereof.

I took a stab at it -- copying the Blogroll template and just renaming it Cast of Characters -- but nothing appeared on my blog.

Any direction? The item would ideally contain links which direct the reader to an entry or file with photos and text.

8 You need to edit your Sidebar template to tell it where to include the new template.

Just add an [include "Cast of Characters"] somewhere that looks appropriate.

9 Got it! Thank you.

10 I created a new heading on my sidebar for non blogroll links but I can't get it to display the links I have added for it in a new template folder.  What am I doing wrong?

11 Um.  I can see your Otaku Links - is this something else?

12 I figured it out, I just moved the links into the sidebar template. It was one of those real doh! moments.

13 Cool.

14 If I change a post from one category to another it shows up under both categories.  How do I remove it from the old category list?  I tried setting the category back to the old category and the action to delete and hitting submit, but that didn't seem to do it.

15 In the post listing, select the post and use the "Move to" or "Remove from" options as appropriate.  There seem to be a couple of bugs related to this, however, so you might want to hang on for a day or so while I fix them.

16 Thank you sir!

17 I may have discovered another categories issue.
I added category labels to each post. This looks fine in Firefox but after the recent leekspin post I looked at the page in AOL and IE....there are little squares with red "x"s in them.

Possibly related....in several of my posts with pictures, particularly the Mikasa post there are several of the little buggers.

With this latter weirdness, I at least have an idea what's up. I had trouble uploading the pics (OK, I goofed) but as I can't look at the raw HTML I can't actually completely remove the link/ image code...It is still there making little boxes containing littler red "x"s visible in IE.

While I personally am all for the "just use Firefox" solution, many of my readers are likely to be unresponsive to it.

Categories question Question: Is there any plan to allow multiple categories per post and/ or a hyperlink to said category in post (ala Blogger). This feature is the only thing Blogger has that I like better than the mee.nu norm.

Conquer this and your victory will be complete !

18 You can have multiple categories per post, but they're a bit fiddly right now.  I plan to address that tomorrow.

I'll take a look and see if I can find what the story is with your little red x's.

19 Curious behavior with (wrong) permlinks on single-category pages:

Go to oldgrouch.mee.nu, and scroll down to "You'll wonder where the money went..." Its permlink is "http://oldgrouch.mee.nu/youll_wonder_where_the_money_went...".

Now click the "Linkage" category in the sidebar, and then scroll down to the same post. Permlink is NOW "http://oldgrouch.mee.nu/linkage/youll_wonder_where_the_money_went...", which, if used, seems to want to generate the whole category page.
Interesting, huh?

20 Hmm.  Actually, that permalink should work, even with the category in it.  I'll poke around a bit and see what I can find.

21 I cannot seem to add any more catagories, other than the one I added...
Any Ideas?

-Chuck

22 How do you add a news article and or a picture ,to a post ?
 I'm not familiar with the process at all .

1 I can't see pics in a post.. i just get the underlying text, like this:

howobamaseestheworld1.jpg

2 Using Foxfire 3.0.x, I can't view videos without installing Adobe Flash. According to the Foxfire website, it's your website that requires me to install and use Flash.

I won't be installing it. And, I won't be visiting your site either.

1 Not having noticed this section before, I tried to use the private messaging to send a bug report to you, Pixy Misa.



The software says that I sent four messages. Also, when I click to see the body of the messages, the From: field reads Pixy Misa.

2 Um.  Oops.  Let me take a look at that!

3 Thanks for pointing that out.  The problem was that the messaging system looks up your site so that it can display (if you want it to) that the message came from Sam Carter of stargate.mee.nu.  I have four sites on the system (mee.nu, mu.nu, ai.mee.nu, and a site I'm in the process of setting up for someone) so it found all four and ended up returning four items for each actual message.

SQL can get quite complicated in situations like that, particularly with MySQL which has some annoying limitations on subqueries.  But I've modified it to only return the first of your sites, and so not duplicate messages unnecessarily.

Now I'm just setting it up to have a flag for when you have new messages, which is necessary for it to be really useful.

4 Also, as I tried to say before, when I check to see what messages I sent, it correctly says that they are to you.
However, when I open up the body of the message, it says that they are from you.
When I hover the mouse over the phrase 'Pixy Misa' in the from field, it says that there is a link to patbuckman.mee.nu.


I have a screenshot at http://patbuckman.mee.nu/files/error1.JPG

5 I'm figuring more of this out.

Here's the screen shot hidden.




I am still learning the oddities of the comment editor.

The angle bracket code shows in the preview, and the square bracket code shows in the editor box.

6 Thanks, I'll get that bug fixed too.  I think you're the first person who's noticed that private messages exist.

7 Fixed that one too.  It was what I expected - I just had a to where I should have had a from.

8 You are very welcome. Looks all fixed now. Thank you.
Probably the only reason I noticed early is because I was expecting a bug report function as part of the site management screen.
Then I remembered something I'd thought I read about mee.nu sites including a free email, and confused the two with the PM function.

9 I was trying to PM Steven den Beste, and guessing at the username. It kept on saying user not found, until I similtaniously put in chizumatic.mee.nu and filed in the subject, for the first time, with 'error'. I got the following error message:


500 Internal Server Error The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 342, in respond cherrypy.response.body = self.handler() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 15, in __call__ return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs) File "Minx.py", line 156, in default return go(cherrypy) File "Minx.py", line 121, in go raise File "Minx.py", line 95, in go return Page.go(cp) File "/var/minx/live1.1/Page.py", line 395, in go Form.go(page) File "/var/minx/live1.1/Form.py", line 3048, in go handler(page) File "/var/minx/live1.1/Form.py", line 2330, in form_message msg=Data.Message(row) File "/var/minx/live1.1/Data.py", line 523, in Message if msg['to.mode'].lower()=='in' and msg['to.status'].lower()=='sent': msg['new']='new' KeyError: 'to.mode' Powered by CherryPy 3.0.0

10 Hmm.  You can specify the site instead of the username, so that should work.  I'll do some testing.

Private messages aren't ideal just yet, as they don't notify you when they arrive.  That's fixed in the new version, which is currently under test, and should be in place next week.

11

I guess just entering the site as the recipient still isn't working. I did the same thing that Pat did, just enter the site URL, and got a bunch of nasty red text.

12 Yeah, me too, same as Will and Pat.

13 I'm trying to send a PM to Avatar_exADV, and I get the previous error message whether I use "Avatar_exADV" or avatar.mee.nu as the recepient.

1

Hey, Pixy.  Not sure if this is the right place for this question, but here it goes...

I think the page control is bugging with Google's indexing robot.  I was checking with google and saw a buttload of warnings about pages that don't exist, like http://youredoingitwrong.mee.nu/?page=34.  There's nothing on that page... except a link to page 35.  You might wanna check your logs to see if the google bot isn't raping bandwith, requesting page after page of nothing.

Also, robots.txt.  I implemented it using a template.  I'm not sure if its working, exactly, as if you go to youredoingitwrong.mee.nu/robots.txt it shows as "robots.txt/", and nothing appears in Google's robots tools.  I don't think I can set the directory the file is located in (files/robots.txt) and I don't think I can place any files there directly.  I also contemplated creating a new directory in the root, but I wasn't sure if I'd completely screw everything up doing that.  So I ask you... whah?

2 Hmm.  That's a bit weird.  I'll take a look.

3

Another question...  Sitemaps.  I'm trying to work up one right now.  It'd be nice if there was an auto updating version.  One that listed each directory (update frequency: daily) and one that listed each post (update frequency: weekly).  First one would be updated regularly as its important that posts be indexed frequently.  The second one would be updated less frequently as user added comments are important to index, but less so.  Automatic sitemap generators fail on the blog in general, and that page control that never ends.  I tried to create a page that listed every post (youredoingitwrong.mee.nu/all) but it fails with too many templates requested.  I think it has something to do with [posts unpaged show=all].  Anything other than [posts:here] also causes the error.  I also think that error may hurt any automatic sitemap generator I may create, as each element would be an individual template. 

Just thought you weren't busy enough so I'd give ya something to do...

4 Minx doesn't have any facilities for statically generated pages, and I'm not sure I want to add them.  I might be able to do something clever with the cache, though.

I'm surprised you hit the template limit with only 100-odd posts; I'll have to take a look at that.

5 How to generate a 500 server error!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py",
line 342, in respond
cherrypy.response.body = self.handler()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py",
line 15, in __call__
return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "Minx.py", line 101, in index
return Page.go(cherrypy)
File "/var/minx/live1.0/Page.py", line 460, in
go Template.go_index(page)
File "/var/minx/live1.0/Template.py", line 2234,
in go_index
page.content=do_template(page,t)
File "/var/minx/live1.0/Template.py", line 174,
in do_template
return do_template_text(page,t)
File "/var/minx/live1.0/Template.py", line 237,
in do_template_text
elif ttype=='here':
s=show_here(page,opt,handler)
File "/var/minx/live1.0/Template.py", line 63,
in show_here
return handler(page,opt)
File "/var/minx/live1.0/Template.py", line 528,
in show_entries
text+=show_entry(page,template)
File "/var/minx/live1.0/Template.py", line 538,
in show_entry
text=do_template(page,template)
File "/var/minx/live1.0/Template.py", line 174,
in do_template
return do_template_text(page,t)
File "/var/minx/live1.0/Template.py", line 231,
in do_template_text
text+=show_tag(page,opt,tags)
File "/var/minx/live1.0/Template.py", line 97,
in show_tag
text=Filter.bbcode(text,tags=val[2],restrict=())
File "/var/minx/live1.0/Filter.py", line 425, in bbcode
text+=r % op
TypeError: not all arguments converted during
string formatting

In the post text, include a bracketed editorial comment, the first word of which is a bbcode command. In my case it was this post. The comment is in the last paragraph of the first blockquote, and originally read "color and italics in original - o.g." (brackets omitted to avoid nastiness). Apologies for any screwy formatting.

6 Oops.  I'll fix that today.

7 Let's see: [color and italics in original - o.g.]

8 Better.  My first attempt caused a different 500 error.

9 More curiously, you seem to be routing to the wrong server.  I wonder why; the DNS was switched over ages ago.

Not a major problem except that at some point I need to take that server offline and reinstall the OS; I'll have to make sure that everyone's getting routed to the new servers first.

10 Oh, and the system now automatically emails me the details of all 500 errors. Please keep posting if you run into one, though, because the system can't tell me what you were doing before you got the error, and that can be important.

11 Will do, thanks!

12 the StarterBanner file that got generated at patbukcman.mee.nu got cut off because the phrase is too long. I am currently putting together a banner file to fix this.

13 Yes, I need to adjust the font size based on the length of the name.  Though it's pretty easy to create a new banner...

14 It is easy.  I just figured out how to do it while I was figuring out how to switch to the banner file I had gotten by hand editing the original.

15 Another anomaly, similar to #5 but this time no 500 server error.

The magic word this time is "quote". Text was (with braces substituted for brackets):
"{quote from the original report by...}".
BBCode interpreted this as invocation of blockquote formatting, then ate the rest of the string to the closing bracket.

16 Hmm.  Sort of hard to avoid that.  I'll see what  I can think of.

You can turn off BBCode for just that post if you're not using it.

17 Actually 'twas this post, which has NESTED blockquotes(!)
In this case, I fixed it by changing the text to: "Extract from..."
How about testing for "quote]" as opposed to "quote "? (But what do I know?)
Thanks!

18 Anyone else besides me not seeing any "recent comments" on the main help page?

19 The problem with testing for [quote] rather than [quote is that the quote tag has options, so I can't tell the difference between something that isn't meant to be a quote at all and something that is meant to be a quote except you messed up the options.[quote]Anyone else besides me not seeing any "recent comments" on the main help page?Yep, I noticed that.  Recent Comments actually shows recent comments for that particular area of the site, but it should be showing the last 10 comments regardless of how old they might be.  Obviously that ain't quite working.

20 Huh.  Okay, that didn't quite work right either.

21 Oops, I'd forgotten the quote= option (stupid user, RTFD!).

Not worth spending a lot of time on then, IMO, but perhaps worth including in the FAQs or the BBCode docs ("Why did it do that?" "Strings beginning with '[' get interpreted as BBCode unless the word following the '[' is NOT a valid command.")

22 Yep, definitely worth a FAQ entry.

23

I just had some strangeness happen with a spoiler tag. First I clicked to expand the spoiler text in a comment. Then as I started typing in my reply comment, the entry box jumped up then down a couple of lines each time I pressed the spacebar. Then, when I clicked in the entry box to place the cursor somewhere else, it caused the comment entry box to drop down and cover up the Preview and Submit buttons, effectively locking me out of posting the comment (tabbing to the buttons didn't seem to work, they were simply gone). Is this something that's a browser issue (IE7) more than anything Minx is doing?

 

24 Whenever I hit the manage account link on either the sidebar or the Edit menu it simply kicks me back to the top of the Edit menu page.  I need to set up a sub account to let my brother post on the site but I can't figure out how to do it with out being able to change my account settings.

25 You don't need to change your account to do that, though it shouldn't be behaving like that either.  I'll get that fixed for you.

To set up multiple authors, first get your brother to sign up at mee.nu.  Then go to Friends, and create an Authors group.  Add your brother to the Authors group, and he'll be able to post.

26

Minor rendering problem -- in the comments to http://evilpundit.mee.nu/galactic_death_ray some links don't show properly with Internet Explorer, though they are fine in Firefox.

 

27

Something you might want to look at.

I was trolling through Wonderducks archives for an old post. I remembered roughly that it was in June. I came across this post first and it mentioned the post I was looking for in a link (the "a few posts back" one).  However, in the switch to Minx, it killed that old numerically indexed link when the post was renamed. For when other mu.nu people start migrateing to Minx, is there a way to keep those old links alive? Having two copies of every old post is wasteful (and would make comments a nightmare), as is wrangling up some code to scrub every old self-referencing link in someone's blog. Seems like a lose-lose-lose situation.

 

28 Hope someone's watching this in spite of the year's inactivity.  Here goes...

I'm having issues with posts containing blockquotes.  For some reason, once the quote starts the text goes black (I currently have it set to dark blue in the style) and stays that way for the rest of the post.  I tried editing the post and changing the color there, but that just introduced a new wrinkle as the style tags didn't read correctly.  Where every "style color[...]" tag was in the source, in the finished text I got ';">' showing up.  I had to edit out all the "color" code before the junk characters would go away.  Which leaves me with the original problem.

Any help?

29 Uh, Pixy, we've lost the last two days of posts over at doubleplusundead.mee.nu...plz halp!

30 Pixy, I'm re-inventing my blog but keep getting errors when I try to change themes or the banner picture. Here's what I get when I try to change the banner:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 606, in respond
cherrypy.response.body = self.handler()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 25, in __call__
return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "Minx.py", line 158, in default
return go(cherrypy)
File "Minx.py", line 97, in go
return Page.go(cp)
File "/var/minx/live1.1/Page.py", line 402, in go
Form.go(page)
File "/var/minx/live1.1/Form.py", line 3051, in go
handler(page)
File "/var/minx/live1.1/Form.py", line 2602, in form_styleimage
Photo.imagemacro(page,image)
File "/var/minx/live1.1/Photo.py", line 919, in imagemacro
im=im.bannerise(width=opt['width'],height=opt['height'],title=opt['text'],titlesize=opt['text.size'],titlefont=opt['text.font'],titlecolor=opt['text.color'],titleoffset=(opt['text.x'],opt['text.y']),titleopacity=opt['text.opacity'],titlestyle=opt['text.style'],titleimage=tim,menuopacity=opt['menu.opacity'],menucolor=opt['menu.color'],shadow=opt.get('text.color.shadow','black'),outline=opt.get('text.color.outline','black'),adheight=opt.get('ad.size',0),crop=crop,pagecolor=opt.get('page.color','white'))
File "/var/minx/live1.1/Photo.py", line 746, in bannerise
p=p.ctext(title,font=titlefont,size=titlesize,pos=(x,y),color=titlecolor,opacity=titleopacity,style=titlestyle,bgcolor=bgcolor,shadow=shadow,outline=outline,image=titleimage)
File "/var/minx/live1.1/Photo.py", line 615, in ctext
p=p.styletext(text,font=font,size=size,pos=pos,color=color,opacity=opacity,style=style+'only',shadow=shadow,outline=outline,opacities=[31,45,54])
File "/var/minx/live1.1/Photo.py", line 599, in styletext
p=p.textshadow(text,font=font,size=size,pos=pos,color=shadow,align=align,padding=padding,opacities=opacities)
File "/var/minx/live1.1/Photo.py", line 522, in textshadow
fn=self.font(font,size,color,opacity,default=False)
File "/var/minx/live1.1/Photo.py", line 90, in font
font=Agg.Font(color,fontdir+font,size=float(size))
IOError: cannot load font (no text renderer)
Thanks,

1

Oh, now it's working.  Keen.

Anyway, I was wondering if there's anything set up to transfer an existing blog to mee.nu.  (I'm at Blogspot, but I regret it.)

Thanks!

2 I'm testing the import function at the moment - I'll be using it to transfer the mu.nu blogs across.  It also works for Blogspot; you export the blog from Blogspot and then import into mee.nu.

I'm still ironing out a few wrinkles with this function, but it's pretty close, so you can expect to see it in about a week's time.

3 And that's a great question for the FAQ.

4

Thanks!  I didn't see it anywhere, but it's possible I missed it.

5 For those of us who whitelist site cookies, which ones do we need to have enabled for mee.nu to work properly?

(I presently have mee.nu, unme.mee.nu, and oldgrouch.mee.nu listed, but I note that while the comments editor for mee.nu remembers my name and email, it doesn't rememember my blog (web .)

6 I'll check on that.  It should work if you only allow cookies from mee.nu itself, but I haven't tested it.

7 I wonder if someone could tell me how to change the password on my mee.nu account.  Can't seem to find the handle on that one.

8 Ah.  That would be because I haven't put that function in yet. ops:

9 This is probably so obvious that I'm missing it entirely, but is there a way to register to post comments on other mee.nu blogs without needing to establish a site? Is there some extra activation step that I don't need to take? Attempting to leave the website-related entries blank didn't work.

10 I would like to change the "font" on my blogs name I tried before and failed ! also would like to put a different "Graphic " in the title header behind the blog name !   thanks

11 forget last post I figured it out ,thanks!

12 Pixy, I know you're swamped, but it would greatly help to have a GETTING STARTED page that really does gear down to techno-duds like myself. This geekspeak is driving me crazy, and it's tough trying to even navigate to where something is supposedly located. I'm lost here.

13 Could you make the new site more printer-friendly? If I try to print a page, the entire right side gets cut off; if I try to copy and paste the text (from IE to MS Word), indented (i.e. quoted) paragraphs show up looking just like normal ones. (With the old site, quoted stuff would show up shaded.)

14

OK, probably a dumb question, but I can't seem to change the name of my site. I've got a site here called Forty-Two. But the heading on the top is different--I originally called it something different, and can't change it back. What happened? Am I missing something really basic?

 

15 Ok, here's a real lunkheaded question, how do I go about granting posting rights on my blog to a friend of mine?  I'd like for two or three people to be able to contribute to my blog without having to log in as me, is this possible?  Any and all information would be appreciated.

16 Any way to password the whole site - in other words - make it private?

17 Sorry, but I have an import question related to the one above - I have a site on wordpress, which I started before the site failures started.  I'd like to use this blog as a constant back-up/failsafe, so is there a way to automatically import every post, or should I just do it manually every couple of weeks?

18 I presently have mee.nu, unme.mee.nu, and oldgrouch.mee.nu listed, but I note that while the comments editor for mee.nu remembers my name and email, it doesn't rememember my blog

19

When I copy the link to an entry, then paste it in a browser window, the screen always jumps down to the comments on that entry's page.

Is there a way to get the entry to display at the top of the page?

20 What's the point of having a site hosted at mee.nu, if you guys are not being indexed on Google? Any comment?

21 That's a very good question.  Other mee.nu sites are being indexed by Google; I'll try to find out why that's not working for you and get it fixed.

22 I'll add a Google verification tag to your site's template.  That should fix the problem.

23 Done.  I also fixed the banner for your site; it doesn't automatically adjust.

24 Thanks, that worked. LinuxLies is now indexed. Appreciate your help!