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Posting is back!!

Sorry for the confusion. The posting module was  active solely for the administration staff as we worked out the last bugs. I had thought that it had been opened to all members.

However now it is back!!! Just refresh your pages, or log out and back in, and hopefully you will see your blog lists, the Blogs tab and all that cool stuff.

posted by: howard at 15:51 | link | comments (24) |
updates, technical, advisory

Downtime advisory, so get a life!! ;-)

Saturday, May 6, 2006 from 6:00 p.m. GMT through to 6:00 a.m. on Sunday we'll be off the air. Your blogs will be offline for only a short time; for the most part they will be online and readable. The home page and website may also be visible, but you will not be able to post or otherwise administer your blogs.

As usual, here are a few links to help you figure out when the downtime will happen in your time zone:

• What time is it now in GMT?
• Use this time converter to calculate the time for your time zone.

WHY, you may ask?

Once again, we are getting ready to add some features and improve the interface of Mo'time. We will be revamping the look and feel of the place... a lot less blue and a lot more white. Most importantly, when you come to the Mo'time homepage, either logged-in or not, you will be able to see the latest blogs, who's online and a general snapshot of what's happening. After logging in, your blogging controls will occupy a much smaller space on the home page, showing only the most frequently used controls. You will find all the other commands just one-click away from the home page control center. The much-talked about advertisements will appear only on the Mo'time pages and not in, on or near your blogs at this stage.

This is just the first step in a series. We want to improve upon the ways in which you can communicate with each other, both one-to-one and in groups, through chat and in private messages, through voice and video chat -- what are generally called the community features. In addition, as far as the advertisements go, we are putting the finishing touches on a system which responds pretty well to all the concerns that everyone expressed in this thread.

There will also be improvements in the handling of photos, videos and sound files plus more and more advanced blogging features such as saving of draft posts, setting posts to automatically publish in the future, posting via email, separate static pages for articles, CV's and such and so on...

posted by: howard at 17:02 | link | comments (8) |
updates, scheduled down time, advisory

Saturday update party

I'll post more about this tomorrow... but from 7:00 p.m. Central European Time through to midnight we'll OFFLINE for a major update. So make other plans!

posted by: howard at 23:46 | link | comments (1) |
updates, scheduled down time, advisory