The old site search was broken and dying, as it tried to keep a database table of every word ever used while matching it to every post that ever used the word. So the new site search we make is going to be done right (able to scale to our size) and will take us […]
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Gravatars on able2know
August 15, 2008 – 10:30 pm
Gravatars are “Globally Recognized Avatars” and were developed by the folks responsible for Word Press. It works as a third party provider of avatars that allows you to use the same avatar on multiple sites. Because the avatars are useful to help distinguish between members more easily a unique avatar is generated and displayed for […]
Submitting a report now sends an email to the help desk
August 15, 2008 – 12:19 am
If you submit a report for a post or topic, it will now send an email to the help desk where you can get a response from moderators. If you want to contact the moderators for anything other than a post report you can also just use the contact us link in the footer of […]
Session expiration raised to 15 minutes of inactivity
August 15, 2008 – 12:15 am
The previous site logged a user out if they were inactive (no page loads) for 5 minutes. At least it intended to as this didn’t always work. The new site launched with the same 5 minute session expiry but after users indicated they were being logged out too often this was raised to 15 minutes. […]
Default post size changed to fully expanded
August 15, 2008 – 12:12 am
At launch the default was to show posts with a vertical scroll with the option to expand individual posts. There was an option to show them all expanded that is now the default behavior.
Duplicate tag bug fixed
August 15, 2008 – 12:09 am
A bug that allowed tags with different case to show up as duplicate tags has been fixed. It was caught early and only a few tags had been entered this way but in order to fix them several user tags were deleted.
Post collapse preference bug fixed
August 14, 2008 – 11:57 pm
A bug that prevented the preference for showing posts with vertical scroll or fully expanded was fixed and the preference should now work.