Hey everybody,

I was doing some server upgrades (Apache and PHP) when I broke everything! I'm horribly sorry about that downtime - what I expected to be a 1-2 minute downtime turned into a 20-30 minute ordeal ... I've fixed everything; please let me know if any URLs are not returning correct pages.

Thanks for your patience, I appreciate it!

Edit: I had to take the server down again - it was missing a whole bunch of libraries (which was causing problems all over the place). Things should be resolved now - once again, super sorry this happened.

The beta control panel has been completely revamped - it was clear the old version was not up to par.

The new version is a lot more stable and has features that were missing in the last version, including:

• RSS feeds
• Fixed crossposting to Blurty, LiveJournal, Xanga, Blogger, and Wordpress
  
• Download counters (for your files)

You can join the beta test from this page. And don't forget, the beta control panel has no limits - unlimited categories, unlimited images, and unlimited files!

Of course, the new beta control panel also has the features from the previous beta control panel: nested albums, cleaner user interface, and a much better entry editor (You can insert images and links easily!)

PLEASE help me out - if you find ANY issues or problems with the new control panel, please comment below. I will try to stabilize this and officially release it a few weeks from now, so any help I can get will be greatly appreciated!

I know it's sucked with Tabulas not improving for years now, but I've been trying to spend as much time as I can to improve everything as best as I can

The next big item for Tabulas after the control panel is re-exposing some stable APIs so you guys can use 3rd party applications to post to Tabulas. The first will be the metaweblog API ... then possibly a generic Atom API.

Thanks all!

- Roy

So the exciting new feature that I worked on last week was domain aliasing! That's right, if you own www.your-own-domain.com, you can now point it over to your Tabulas account! For example, kidwest.net points to kidwest.tabulas.com.

If you'd like to get this set-up, please point your DNS A record to 67.15.181.21 and email me with your domain name and your Tabulas name!

This will be a free feature for only a short time, so take advantage of it while you can

If you're having problems logging in, please try doing a log-out first, then do a log-in. Thanks!

For the last two weeks, you may have noticed comment spams have decreased in frequency. This is thanks to Akismet, an automated spam filter that Tabulas is now using!

Some of you have noticed that there is no longer a place to determine when your account will downgrade - do not worry about this. I have temporarily disabled account upgrading/downgrading until I can work out some things (frankly I feel guilty about taking your money while I keep ironing out kinks in Tabulas). I will post a note here once upgrades/downgrades are once again active.

Thanks for your continued support of Tabulas. I should have a pretty cool announcement later this week for a often-requested feature