Date: 2008-11-02 11:52:02 Created: null
Put in another little detail I could have used years ago: making an update of the time when a news post is edited optional. Now I have to check a box to make that happen, which means I can correct spelling mistakes without having the item jump to the top of the news list. I've also uploaded the stuff I discuss below, we'll see if I start using it eventually. I still feel it needs some automation before I can start using it.
A week or two ago I figured out and implemented a way to alter the timestamp on texts. I did it on the "experimental" version of the site that I run on Pomum, so no changes have been made online yet. The changes enable me to modify the timestamp of a text when creating or modifying it so that the time set can reflect the actual time for me when I post the text, which I think would be fun. I'm not certain it's a great idea to use different times though, using server time all the time is much more consequent. Also, if I am going to start using this I want to put in a little bit more of automation. Currently, I have to pick the hour modification each time I save, which probably means I'll forget it at least every other time. Martin suggested using JavaScript to get the client computer's time, and I think that's a nice idea. Then I could use that for default value, allowing me to override it if client time is way off or if JavaScript just doesn't work. We'll see what happens ...
Finally added a decent way of quickly cleaning out boring stuff from the hit log. Several tens of thousands of hits from MSN's search engine bot spring to mind ... Hopefully more to come soon.
It was a long time since I last even looked at the code for the site, not to mention actually did something to it. But today I've done a little bit of development/testing on my local version. I've set it up to properly handle comments on comments, except for the minor feature of actually displaying them ... Thinking more about it has made me less certain if I want the feature at all, and if so in what form I want it. I'm pretty sure I don't want an infinite-ladder-type thing, so even if I allow commenting on comments below the original one it'd have to end somewhere. Perhaps only one level is the best? Or perhaps I might just as well keep it as it is?