Last week Blogotariat experienced a major malfunction with the aggregating process. That has since been fixed, but somewhere along the way some feeds have been dropped from the system - that may have come about from upgrading the aggregation software.
Anyway I'm slowly adding missing feeds back into Blogotariat. Let me know if I miss some.
The good news is that Blogotariat has been entirely stable since moving hosts and unique visitor numbers have been doubling for the last three months. This means that post rankings are developing a proper life of their own without my input. Read more »
The good news is that Blogotariat has been entirely stable since moving hosts and unique visitor numbers have been doubling for the last three months. This means that post rankings are developing a proper life of their own without my input. Read more »
The good news is that Blogotariat has been entirely stable since moving hosts and unique visitor numbers have been doubling for the last three months. This means that post rankings are developing a proper life of their own without my input.
I do spend time everyday doing minor cleanups of html - mostly to fix broken or bad layout, and a lot of that is from the many non-standard ways that people use when formatting their blog posts. From an aggregation perspective all the superfluous code created by wysiwyg blog editors needs to be removed as far as possible. Read more »
Third time lucky. Well so they say. Let's hope so. A handful of sites I've built have been rendered useless by the major trials and tribulations of MDWebhosting. First, it was Russian cross-spripting hackers or something, and then on February 9 they had a major power malfunction which fried the power supply grid and then proceeded to cook the servers. Read more »
Blogotariat was nobbled a few days ago by what my webhost calls Russian hackers using cross-scripting. Now they tell me. Apparently they've taken measures to make it less likely to happen again. Great.
I tried in vain to restore the site by upgrading to the latest release and restoring the database. Finally resorted to restoring the site files from a late December backup I must have created in an uncharacteristic moment of lucidity.
The menu has disappeared but I hope to find it shortly. It might have fallen down the back of the couch. Ah.. there it is. Read more »
Blogotariat's web host have been upgrading and migrating servers which is always good news. However they did not advise me that the method I was using to update the feed items had been deprecated and was no longer functioning. I had to rely on manual updates for the last few days. Not being able to get through to the web support service for a few days was also a worry. I finally managed to talk to a support person this morning who came up with the answer for me. Read more »
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