Site work...

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Submitted by ggevalt on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 8:46pm

Hope you are noticing an improvement in the speed of this site. Further improvements coming soon.

If you notice anything that is not working right, note below. Thanks.

The podcasts have been fixed!

Take care. Write early and often...

gg

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Nah, GG. Go for the shock

Submitted by Special on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 10:13pm.

Nah, GG.

Go for the shock factor. I vote bright pink! oh no! Green!
make a statement ;)

~Sauce
(Will watch out for the maintenance)

So it seems that every

Submitted by Geist on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 6:04pm.

So it seems that every podcast is now replaced with "It looks like you don't have Adobe Flash Player", even if we do.

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re Podcasts...

Submitted by ggevalt on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 7:30pm.

As Geist points out, we lost our cute little podcast player. We can't fix the problem and it's late and it's Friday so what we did was change the settings so the generic file is posted and if you click it it will call your resident browser player, though you will be switched to another window. To get back to the site, just click the back arrow on your browser.
We'll have fixed next week.

gg

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Thanks for the

Submitted by NonSequitur on Sat, 01/30/2010 - 11:17am.

Thanks for the troubleshooting!

One thing I have been wondering about for a while -where did the "all bloggers" list go? It was so wonderfully helpful...

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"The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation."

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All bloggers...

Submitted by ggevalt on Sun, 01/31/2010 - 10:21am.

Without getting too technical, YWP uses an open source CMS software called Drupal. It is great -- powerful, well-supported and reliable. However, it gets a lot of its functionality from "modules" created by software developers all over the world. Sometimes those modules are good and are written with solid code, sometimes they are OK but the code is a little hinky and sometimes they are written well and work well but the person who "maintains" the module stops -- they get too busy, have a kid, get a new job, whatever -- and those who fill in to maintain the module aren't as good.

So in the case of the "all bloggers," it was a fairly simple module that expanded and then got revised but never finished. We had it running but towards the end we were having some troubles and finally dropped it.

As with all things at YWP, good ideas like yours get put on a list of things we hope to do. Given all the work we do, it's hard sometimes to find the time to develop and test all these things....

More than you wanted to know, perhaps, but information nonetheless.

gg