thraxil.org:

give me something to break

by anders pearson Wed 07 Nov 2001 01:34:12

it's not just a new design. in fact, the design is just temporary. it <em>is</em> a new backend. with lots of new features. still not completed but there should be enough to play with for now. on to the new features: <strong>user accounts</strong>: if you login you can change all kinds of things. eventually (once i add some more themes) you can change the theme of the site. login, go to your user page click 'edit your settings' and play with stuff. if you had an account before, it'll be the same username/password you had. if you've posted a comment before, check the list of <a href="users.pl">users</a> and see if you're on there. for the next few days at least your password is the same as your username. change it. any accounts that haven't changed their password in the next week i'll set to garbage and you'll have to contact me if you want to re-activate that username. if you're not listed there, feel free to create yourself a new account. you have to be logged in to post comments so make yourself an account if you want to participate. <strong>diaries</strong>: you've probably noticed mention of "diaries" around here too. i've added a little diary feature that you can use if you like (i added it mostly because i want a place to put things that are too mundane for thraxil but still trying to keep myself in the habit of writing on a daily basis). the "edit diary template directory" link on your user page is another cool related feature. it lets you edit the template files and even add stuff to your own directory so you can change the look and feel of your diary. i'll post some documentation for the format of the template files later. <strong>image upload</strong>: replaced "sketches" with a more general purpose "images" section. so feel free to post other stuff there besides just drawings (no pr0n or copyrighted stuff that will get me in trouble though or i <em>will</em> take the toy away). and now you can upload images to thraxil. it will automagically resize and thumbnail them so you don't have to worry about that anymore (only handles jpgs,gifs, and pngs for now). <strong>keywords</strong>: the categories for bookmarks have been changed to a keywords system for maximum flexibility. in addition, you can mark any other post with keywords too to make things more searchable. lots of other little changes too that probably are obvious that i don't need to explain them. threaded discussions on the comments, preview and edit capabilities on posts, handy little menu of recent comments and recent diary entries at the top, limited ability to fix unclosed tags. still to come: search, archives, complete editting (for images and bookmarks too), better diary management, more themes, documentation, and (don't worry) a reworked markov.