Mar 2008
More RSS Stuff
12 Mar 2008 21:13 Filed in: Development
I'm now using FeedBurner for the Unique
Sentences RSS feed, and I've corrected a couple
of minor issues with my RSS (thanks, feedvalidator.org!)
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Sentences by RSS!
12 Mar 2008 20:16 Filed in: Development
I've just added an RSS
feed for new sentences, so you can now subscribe
to new Unique Sentences in your favourite feed
reader. Thanks to webWICKED for the
handy
tutorial. Links to the feed are available in the
sidebar of every Unique Sentence page except this one
(I didn't want to confuse people by having an RSS
feed for the blog and an RSS feed for the sentences
on the same page...)
Credits
06 Mar 2008 21:56 Filed in: Credits
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At last! Discussions!
02 Mar 2008 22:49 Filed in: Development
| General News
At long last, I've sat down for an afternoon (and an
evening, truth be told) and implemented a discussion
feature -- which I've called "heckling" -- for the
site.
It's basic. Logged-in users can add a comment to any sentence, and all the comments from all the users are shown in order after the sentence on the page. And that's about it. There's no threading, no email notification, just the absolute bare bones of a system. But it's a start, and we'll see how it evolves from here.
At the moment, spam protection is being provided by the very worthy reCAPTCHA project. That may change, though. If I get too many bottom-feeding spammy morons attacking the site, I'll just go for manual approval of everything that's submitted...
Bearing in mind I've been meaning to do this for months and months, it's nice to have finally got around to it. Hurrah! I'm going to go and have a self-congratulatory coffee.
It's basic. Logged-in users can add a comment to any sentence, and all the comments from all the users are shown in order after the sentence on the page. And that's about it. There's no threading, no email notification, just the absolute bare bones of a system. But it's a start, and we'll see how it evolves from here.
At the moment, spam protection is being provided by the very worthy reCAPTCHA project. That may change, though. If I get too many bottom-feeding spammy morons attacking the site, I'll just go for manual approval of everything that's submitted...
Bearing in mind I've been meaning to do this for months and months, it's nice to have finally got around to it. Hurrah! I'm going to go and have a self-congratulatory coffee.
Trimming the Deadwood
02 Mar 2008 13:54 Filed in: Development
| General News
I've just added an administration facility that I've
been meaning to put on the site for a long time: I
can now trim the worst sentences from the site. I've
just gotten rid of the bottom 20% of sentences based
on rating. The system avoids binning sentences that
have only recently been submitted, so it should give
everything a chance to be rated one way or the other
before it wields its mighty scythe.
This afternoon and evening, now I've warmed back up on my PHP and MySQL coding, I'm going to make a start on my long-threatened sentence-discussion system. I'm aiming to have a basic system up and running by the end of the week, but don't hold your breath for email notification or threading...
This afternoon and evening, now I've warmed back up on my PHP and MySQL coding, I'm going to make a start on my long-threatened sentence-discussion system. I'm aiming to have a basic system up and running by the end of the week, but don't hold your breath for email notification or threading...