[size=m]whisper tag[/size]
There is a new journal tag called whisper, it is written like this

[whisper]Here is something to whisper, you could include images or anything [/whisper]

.

[whisper]He is a live example that only members can see[/whisper]

Whenever you put anything is whisper tags, only logged in members of the site can see it. This provides a secure way to say things that you only want members to see. It compliments the

[hide]hide this text[/hide]

tag which allows you to hide text from anyone accept your self. This allows you to publish noptes about your journal, that only you want to see.

[size=m]Journal Forwarding[/size]
Since june 19th 1625 people clicked on the little envelope at the bottom of a journal entry to forward a journal entry to someone else via email but only two people actually sent one. I wonder why. Is it too tricky, does nobody understand it, or is it not a worthwhile feature?



>>Posted By: paul

The site student loan total has hit $766,768 and could soon reach $1 million. If you are a site memeber and haven't filled this out, be sure to include your student loans in the total by clicking on the (loans) link in your control panel.



>>Posted By: paul

I "dried out" one year of estrip chat and turned it into an html file of the whole year. I might break it into installments later but for now it is on one page



Also, student loan reports are almost up to $700,000. If anyone is not included, don't forget to add your total to the list by clicking on the (loan) link in your control panel. We are aiming for at least $1 million.


>>Posted By: paul

Well, now that we found a topic journalist, the next most important thing is a server admin and/or a reliable local hosting facility. Here is the link to the official request for a new home/help.

We are desperately seeking a server techie to look at the sites server and tweak it so that it runs better/faster. The site code base has been optimized considerably and it can be optimized a bit more, but I think perhaps I have the server settings wrong as I have no idea what i am doing with the server when it comes to scalability, memory management, etc.



We are really desperate here for server help, because there are a lot of new features that are waiting to be released for the site, but server optimization needs to be dealt with first.

We could also just move the site to a local location where (e:paul) is not in charge of serevr amdininstration. Right now it is housed in Vancouver and I would prefer to have it in Buffalo. We currently pay about $40.00 month, so we would be willing to match that on a local entrepreneur who can match or beat the speed we are at.

To make it a little easier, we also own a nice dual 2.6Ghz xeon server that we could use if anyone has a colocation facility in Buffalo.

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 06/21/05 23:21 >>Updated By: paul 06/21/05 23:21

Everyone should try out fast mode, if you are using firefox or IE 6.0 - you can enable it in your prefs. It allows the journals to load really fast from the top twelve list using xmlHTTP so that it does not have to load the entire page each time. There is no guarantee it will work for you, so if it doesn't just go ahead and set it back to disabled in your preferences.

If you are in fast mode, you will see a little yellow and red lightning bold in your top twelve list.

I also added another little xmlHTTP fucntion to load the user names into a a little box when you click on the (?) next to the number of epeeps. This lets the number and names update more frequently, yet conserves bandwidth.

--update -> this has been changed slightly. Fast mode can now be toggled using the lighting bolt/turtle switch in the top twelve list.