Right now there are two topic types for “Questions” and “Discussions” and the difference between them isn’t fully articulated by the software. Questions are intended for topics where you have a question that you want an answer to. Once having the “right” answer these topics will be less visible. Discussions are open-ended and won’t close […]
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A tutorial for formatting articles and websites to share
September 13, 2008 – 11:43 pm
In the future able2know will have a special topic type dedicated to sharing articles and webpages but in the mean time there’s still a lot of article posting going on and I thought I’d share my tips on making the submissions more useful to others. Link to the article. Give the users a chance to […]
Robots crashed the server
September 13, 2008 – 2:24 pm
Today there was some downtime as a rogue robot made too many connections to the database and caused it to stop responding. In the future we’ll build some more caching to be able to handle more concurrent connections but we’ll also build in robot banning code that will block robots that don’t respect the robots.txt […]
New image BBCode features (size and align)
September 13, 2008 – 1:48 pm
We have made updates to the image bbcode to allow you to specify the size and alignment of the images you post. This can be useful if the image is too big or if you’d like the text to wrap the image. Here is how to do it. To specify the size, use width and […]
Introducing Flash Tags
September 11, 2008 – 4:00 pm
Today we released the flash BBcode tags. This will allow you to embed many different types of flash content within topics and posts. We posted some examples using videos from sites other than youtube and using flash games. Will Ferrell – The Landlord Play Deal or No Deal online Flash Mini Golf game Pandemic 2 […]
Login useability updates
September 9, 2008 – 5:11 pm
We have just released updates to the authentication portion of the website (logging in and registering). These pages now check your browser for cookie functionality, and will display a message if problems were detected. Cookies are used to maintain users’ logged in status. As this is a critical component to the site, we wanted to […]
Known issues and current development priorities
September 6, 2008 – 11:49 pm
Right now the main big things we are working on are: Basic fixes and improvements (things like improving the login and register usability) Email updates Restoring old poll data Private Messaging Our top priority right now is making the log in more intuitive for users who are blocking cookies and to change the credentials to […]
Tagging updates
September 5, 2008 – 11:34 pm
The back end infrastructure of tags has been updated to fix some bugs in the way popular and related tags were counted. We also added the tags under the topic titles on the topic listings to help give context to the topic titles and give users a better idea of what the topic is about […]
The topic tagging feature has been overhauled
August 28, 2008 – 1:19 am
The topic tagging box has been changed to separate tag adding and deleting and the interface for tagging topics has been overhauled. There are still some messaging bugs and various tweaks needed but this should make it much easier to delete or change your tags.
Old urls now redirect to new urls
August 27, 2008 – 1:18 am
All the main old urls for forums, topics and posts have now been redirected to the new urls to preserve your links and bookmarks from the old software.