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Entries for March, 2004

March 1st, 2004

Image Uploading back

Posted by tabulas at 03:59 AM on March 1, 2004 in Gallery.

Image uploading is back online. It should work zippy; all images are now being upload directly to our separate server

Thank you for your patience.

Edit: If you still cannot upload an image, try a force reload of the uploads page (Hold Ctrl + Shift and hit "Refresh" in your browser).

If it still doesn't work, please post in a comment what error messages you are getting.

Simply posting "It doesn't work" is of no help to me.

Edit: It seems that if you registered an account over the past week then you'll have trouble adding images to the gallery. We will track down this problem tomorrow and fix it. Until then, please refrain from posting your gallery problems. If you cannot upload images and you did NOT register an account last week, please post below.

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March 2nd, 2004

Change your username

Posted by tabulas at 03:52 PM on March 2, 2004 in General News.

The "Change your username" feature is back.

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Database Problems

Posted by tabulas at 08:23 PM on March 2, 2004 in General News.

We've been having database issues all day so we took the database down for a bit to work on it; it seems that the database had gotten corrupted from high usage... we repaired the database and just brought it back up.

We are carefully monitoring the situation and we hope that there are no more problems.

Again, we're horribly sorry for the downtime.

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March 10th, 2004

Updates on the entry system

Posted by tabulas at 06:51 PM on March 10, 2004 in Journaling Features.

Without getting into too much detail, we've been doing a lot of planning to rehaul a lot of the Tabulas system. We will be doing some pre-production work by restructuring the database and recoding some of the entry engines to reflect these changes; your journals for a few minutes at a time may show errors; simply refresh your browser and they should go away. Those errors that do not go away within 2 minutes should be reported below.

We've updated the entry breaking feature; there should be no changes on your end, but the coding is a lot simpler now.

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March 11th, 2004

Updates to entries

Posted by tabulas at 04:08 AM on March 11, 2004 in General News.

We've broken RSS feeds and the entry backup feature (on purpose). They should be back up shortly; we're restructuring the database schema right now.

You'll notice your Song of the Moment and Book of the Moment have become single fields; this was done to relieve stress on the database... and also to fix the long recurring nasty bug that autoformatted artists in a certain way.

Edit: We're moving all feeds over to RSS 2.0. If you edit or add a feed, your feed will update to RSS 2.0.

Right now we have _no_ international character support; this will be added in over the next few days (hopefully).

Edit 2: Entry backups are now up.

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March 15th, 2004

OPML Files

Posted by tabulas at 04:22 PM on March 15, 2004 in Misc Features.

OPML files are now being generated for all Tabulas accounts; these are XML files that outline your Content Pages, your Links, and links to your Tabulas friends. A sample OPML file can be seen here.

These OPML files can be used to parse links to your content pages, links and your friends listing from outside websites.

Your OPML file can be accessed from: http://xml.tabulets.com/opml/username.xml (username should be all lowercase).

These OPML files are updated whenever you update your friends, content pages, or links.

Update: You can now import your OPML file to Bloglines, a RSS aggregator. Although it will not automatically grab RSS feeds for your favorite sites; you can import all your Tabulas friends into their site.

To do so, download your OPML file to your hard drive; then go to Manage Subscriptions in the left pane; you'll then see an Import OPML file on the right side. Simply upload your OPML file and you've got all your Tabulas friends imported!

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March 16th, 2004

One year birthday

Posted by tabulas at 01:09 AM on March 16, 2004 in General News.

Happy first birthday to Tabulas =). You can see the first post posted on Tabulas...

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March 31st, 2004

A note to beta users

Posted by tabulas at 05:57 AM on March 31, 2004 in General News.

This is a note to those of you who have PAID for a beta account ... one of the perks was that you would get 2 lifetime 70% discounts off of Tabulas' sister photohosting site (which is now Lightbox7.com). If you did pay for a beta account and would like both of these coupons (they are transferrable and will never expire), please send a private message to this account with your email address and I will issue two coupon codes for you (you do not need to be registered to Lightbox in order to receive these coupons; for all I care you can post them on the internet or give them away!).

Thanks.

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