The Online Safety Act 2023
The Online Safety Act 2023 comes into force Monday. This should be a good thing except that I now have to do a mountain of paperwork (correctly on the first try) to basically say, “yes, we moderate and no dangerous content is hosted here”. Failure to do this could land …
40 spam accounts purged
It looks like there was a fat old spam run at our site recently. The spam accounts have now been removed. If I missed any, let me know.
Fediverse changes
I’ve had to make a change to the way Author Buzz syndicates content to places like Mastodon. We used to have forum topics and replies in the syndication stream. I have now pulled it back to only posts to the main blog. The reason for dialling it back was I …
Adding libraries: A choice to be made
I’ve finally gotten to the point of working out how to import all libraries in the UK. This will allow authors to (one day) list which libraries carry their books; and other things like that. The choice before me now is do I make each library a type of post/page …
Revising Blog Themes
I have started the process of revising the themes on offer to our bloggers. In particular, I want to remove themes that hide their best features behind a paywall and themes that have not been kept up to date. I will do my best to make sure there are some …
Possible site speed-up feature
The news is that WordPress released a performance plugin that could offer “Near-Instant Load Times”. Danny pointed this one out to me. It looks good. WordPress released an official plugin that adds support for a cutting edge technology called speculative loading that can help boost site performance and improve the …
Stand by for updates
I’ve got a couple of bits to take care of today. Here’s to a smooth update. Update I guess, two out of three ain’t bad.
A few potential bug fixes and spam defences
I’ve been looking into two seemingly unrelated bugs that I now suspect share a root cause. This evening, I added some new directives that control cache expiry. In both cases, this is for JSON content which is what the cache shows you when you want to see a post and …
CSS error on the front page
Something has gone screwy with the CSS for the front page. I’m already working on fixing it.
I am considering a radical redesign
I am considering a radical redesign of the site. This change will aim to bring user content (forums, your blogs, groups, etc.) to more prominence on the front page. It will also aim to make user profiles much more dynamic. My thought is to make all content a block (main …