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Posted by Temporal at 2005/05/16 02:01:12 PDT

Just updated Io Community Manager with a bunch of bug fixes and a couple new features. The main new feature is RSS feeds.

Just about every page on this site that is composed of multiple items added over time now has an RSS feed. The news page has an RSS feed. Every forum has an RSS feed. Every thread has an RSS feed. But, of course, the most useful RSS feed would be the activity tracker. In Firefox, you can subscribe to an RSS feed using the orange wavey icon in the lower-right corner. Please do not subscribe to multiple RSS feeds. Just subscribe to the activity tracker to get everything.

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Relaunch
Posted by Temporal at 2005/05/08 22:10:40 PDT
Edited at 2005/05/14 00:25:38 PDT

Fate of Io is hearby re-launched.

It has been a long time (over a year) since serious work has been done on Fate of Io. At least, by anyone other than Dev and Temporal. However, it is time to change that. With the new v5 web site up, tested, and running, we're ready to get back in business.

Check the current tasks forum for things to work on. More tasks will be posted soon, but a few are already there and ready to go. Remember to check back daily for updates.

Weekly meetings will take place in the chat room on Saturdays at 1 PM Pacific time (4 PM Eastern, 9 PM UK), and will continue as long as we feel necessary. This time is open to change if important contributors can't make it.

We need more people! If you know anyone who would make a good contributor to Fate of Io, please let them know about us. If you know any good sites to post links to Fate of Io please consult with Dev or Temporal before posting. We want to advertise on such sites, but we want to make sure to do it tactfully. We will want to review exactly what you intend to post before you post it. Thanks.

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v5 Final
Posted by Temporal at 2005/04/09 17:30:53 PDT

If you are reading this, you are connected to the new fateofio.org server.

This server is a Pentium 4 3.0GHz with HyperThreading. The server has 1GB of RAM and 120GB hard drive space. It is running FreeBSD 5.3. Our monthly bandwidth allowance is an astronomical 1.5TB.

The web server is, of course, EvlanServer + Io Community Manager. Other software running on the server include OpenSSH, qmail, tinydns, and stunnel.

Over the next few days we will be going through the site and making sure all the info is up to date. This includes finally fixing all those broken links, etc.

I fully intend to make Dev do most of this work. Since, you know, he can. Whereas I haven't been able to make him do much other work before now. :P

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v5 RC1
Posted by Temporal at 2005/03/06 13:13:34 PST

That's right. This is now a release candidate. That means I have no further features to implement and I know of no bugs which I care to fix. If you can think of any features you'd like to see or find any bugs that need fixing, please post them below.

In the meantime, I am working on porting Evlan to FreeBSD, after which I will be able to set up the site at a professional FreeBSD hosting service.

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v5 Beta 4.4
Posted by Temporal at 2005/03/04 17:00:29 PST

More tweaks. Google search box on the left, which searches just within the fateofio.org domain. Why implement my own search function when Google is already so, so much better?

Your IP address is now properly logged and attached to your profile (visible to admins only) when you post. So behave! :P

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Another Crash
Posted by Temporal at 2005/03/04 06:24:34 PST

I think we only lost, like, two posts this time, as I had saved pretty recently... In any case, this time I found and fixed the cause of the crash right away; it was pretty straight-forward.

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v4 Beta 4.3
Posted by Temporal at 2005/03/03 06:02:27 PST
Edited at 2005/03/03 11:39:27 PST

Well, you can't see this change, unless you are Dev or myself, but I added a page for modifying basic site-wide parameter (title, footer text, etc.) and a thingy for banning IP addresses. So behave!

EDIT: Just added a whole bunch of tweaks, many of which are quite visible. Well... except that they're minor, so you might not notice them right away. But, yeah.

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v5 Beta 4.2
Posted by Temporal at 2005/03/02 04:17:04 PST

Activity tracker and user list implemented (see navigation box, left). Neat image-based decorations provided by Dev.

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v5 Beta 4.1
Posted by Temporal at 2005/02/28 17:23:41 PST

I added automatic chat logging. Every 10 minutes, the last 10 minutes of conversation are added to the logs, which are accessible through the calendar in the sidebar of the chat page. Yay.

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Total server meltdown!
Posted by Temporal at 2005/02/25 20:04:09 PST

Well, as you might notice, several comments are now missing from yesterday's news post. This is because the server just crashed, and I had to restore from yesterday's backup.

Unfortunately I still don't completely know why it crashed. I have it narrowed down to a pretty specific area, but it'll take careful examination of the code to find out what exactly happened and fix it.

The good news is that the server ran for over a week without a hitch before that. And that was on my first attempt at real-world usage, so that's pretty damn good, IMO. Clearly the crash bug that occurred is very rare, so it probably won't happen again before I manage to find and fix it.

More good news is that restoring from backups works flawlessly. I've been rather uneasy about that whole system since it's very complicated, but this was by far its toughest test yet, and it had no problem. So, yay.

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