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Update Feb 24: I made some changes to the router at the server site. I think that this may fix a lot of the lag and delayed response issues the site has been experiencing. I'll test that later since I'm onsite right now and that means that EVERYTHING is fast. Hey everyone. Welcome to the end of february. I did a little work on the site today, so I wanted to give you all an update. I made a couple tweaks to some code for security and continuity (you shouldn't notice any differences - it's on rarely used pages) as well as adding a new "feature." Basically, all this feature is is the ability to remove bookmarks. You can now delete bookmarks by going to the Manage Bookmarks page under Preferences and clicking the X next to the story you want to remove the bookmark for. I've felt this to be a pretty glaring omission for a while, so when I sat down to work on the site today, I thought that was a good place to start. Let me know if you have any questions/problems. Enjoy!
Ok, so I did a lot of low level work this afternoon. There have been quite a few changes to the database, common site code, login code, and development server setup. For this reason (and especially the login code changes), let me know if you have any troubles logging into the site or staying logged in, etc. I think I have fixed a few longstanding bugs in the site, while vastly improving account security, but hopefully I didn't introduce new ones.
Secondly, I launched a new feature (the first one since august!). It's a small one, and it's only a part of what it will ultimately be, but these parts are done, so I thought I'd let you all have them to play around with. It's simply a new way to browse stories. You can access the browse stories page from Story Toolbox areas (Browse Stories), or at this link:
http://www.buildastory.com/html/browse.pl
It is really only 3/8 done in a lot of ways (because, as of right now, there will be a total of 8 tabs there with various ways to browse stories), so look for that coming up. Also, look for more bug fixes (such as the incorrect posting times being displayed everywhere) - I have been doing a fair amount of work trying to fix some of these, so hopefully they'll be gone soon. Enjoy!
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Update: December 15. Just wanted to say that instead of only updating the pages below, I have been giving the whole preferences section a slight makeover (nothing amazing, but integrating everything and making it look somewhat better. I also think I might add some more preferences functionality. We'll see. So, I just made a quick aesthetic/backend change to the site tonight by updating http://www.buildastory.com/html/managelist.pl This page in particular was straight up ugly and did not fit in with the rest of the design, so I went ahead and updated the code on the page (it now is mostly CSS based like all the new pages being built) and uses the standard headers and footers for the site. Plus, it looks much better than it used to, but should function the same. Anyway, I have a lot of things I would love to do on the site while I'm on break, but we'll see what happens. I have a ton of things to catch up on, so I'm not going to guarantee anything. I may mostly just go through the site doing "cleanup." Fixing security holes, inconsistencies, ugliness, confusing parts, and misleading links, etc. I'm not sure yet. I may also work on features (and I may do nothing at all). Just a heads up and something to let you know I'm still here improving the site
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