Sorry about that. Will have to fix them manually. :)

Going to bed now...

It's Friday night, the beginning of my weekend. I've got a glass of French Pinot Noir, my boyfriend is in the kitchen making fried rice, and I'm ready to get the ball rolling.

Melo 3.0.1 here we come. :)

I had to transfer money in at the last second, didn't think I'd make it, there's only $2.52 left in the account after the deduction, but we're saved....

Now to make enough money so we can pay next month's hosting bill! Woo hoo!

It's because to be nice I imported your shit with the "Full HTML" format, so that your old HTML would still work. However in 3.0 "Full HTML" is a Karma reward, and if you don't have access to that input format, you can't edit the posts associated with it.

It's kind of a cool bug, and now that I know what's going on it should be easy to fix. Sorry to those of you who were affected by it, I'll be fixing you up shortly!

What makes people think they know anything about web development?

I keep seeing people say "we didn't need a new version, Melo 2.0 was fine, she just changed it because ________."

Really? How do you know that? How do you know what technology Melo needs to stay alive? How do you know what my motivations were?

Do you honestly think that I would sign up to rewrite this site from scratch because I WANTED TO? Do you think I get any benefit out of it whatsoever? Do you think it was fucking fun for me?

Nobody in their right mind would sign up to rebuild this site. Travis told me to outsource it to India. Other people told me to just shut it down, or let it live on how it was forever until it fizzled out.

Nobody who knows anything about development has questioned my decision to move to a framework, instead of a pile of custom code from 2001.

Only stupid, stupid people, with no experience or knowledge, are making wild accusations with no basis in reality. And I could just write them off as stupid, except that they INFLUENCE OTHER PEOPLE. They convince other, more impressionable and naive members, that their bullshit take on truth is actually correct. That they know something about what this site did or did not need.

You don't know. You don't have my skills. You don't work my jobs. You have never run a website with registered members. You have never had to support a 9GB text-only database. So until you do that, please refrain from telling me what this site did and did not need in order to survive.

It was 100% impossible for me to protect you from hackers on Melo 2.0. Do you remember that, goldfish memory assholes? Do you remember all the javascript injection that allowed people to steal your passwords?

It would have taken me 2 years to upgrade Melo 2.0 so that it was protected from hackers. When it was written, SQL injection wasn't so well known, and so only 50% of the code was protected from intrusions.

I had to make the call. That's my fucking job. That is why this is my website and not your website -- because when it comes time to make the tough calls I am not afraid to do it, and to follow up on it, and to make sure it works.

All of this roller coaster of feedback is really reminding me of the one thing I've always known -- I have to pick whether I am the face, or the body. If I am building this with my blood, sweat, and tears, then I cannot be responsible to justify it to you though these social interactions, because frankly it just breaks my heart.

Here's hoping I can numb myself and code like a zombie.

PS -- Look forward to less filtration on my bubbling rage and anger over the next couple of months. I am working on quitting smoking and so I am becoming a raging bitch. It will be harder to let your snide fucking comments roll like water off a duck's back. Someday I will be perfect.

As I am going through the Feedback and checking them off, some of the requests and reports will need to be deferred in favor of critical fixes. Of the non-critical fixes, you guys now have the ability to vote on what I'm going to work on next.

Simply visit the Tickets section at Community => Dev Center => Support Tickets to see what's been added to the queue. Touch any of the tickets that you really want to see done. I will fix whatever is at the top of the list and work my way down.

Important things like elite accounts, crashing, missing data, slowness, etc, will be taken care of immediately. All other issues will get handled in order of mob-rule.

Enjoy.

Bots be damned. You can see our CAPTCHA in action on the contact & registration forms. Very cool.

I am looking into an Audio CAPTCHA so we can be friendly to the blind. That's coming shortly.

1. Is your journal entry or folder linking to something like "node/34535" instead of a pretty URL? If you edit that entry and then resave it, the path will get generated correctly! Meanwhile posts without URLs are quietly getting cleaned up 50 at a time in the background, so eventually they will all be pretty again. Note: This does not apply to where you land after a gspot reply -- that is just natural Drupal behavior I need to override.
2. Is your user URL linking to something weird, like /users/sara24352? Try editing your account -- the page where you set your password, and saving it again. Maybe that will fix you. If not, report it in feedback and I will script a cleanup sooner or later. :)
3. Wondering why your clique isn't showing on the front page? It is currently sorted in order of Clique-Last-Updated, meaning the picture/description/etc for the Clique. I have a fix I'm working on so new Clique Posts will update that timestamp and resolve the staleness of the clique block on the front page.
4. Had trouble with your color scheme header or profile picture? Try again, I just updated some file permissions.
5. Want to quickly recalculate your karma? Visit your karma page to get a refresh. Karma gets calculated in batches at regular times, Touches get reset nightly.
6. Wondering what's up with gspot replies? So am I! The gspot replies page is cached and should refresh when you get a new reply, and you should also get a special gspot notification when you get a new reply. Currently both features are sucking, and I will fix shortly. In the meantime, I'm disabling cache, so the page will load slow but will show the most recent replies.
7. Got other questions? Ask on this post and I shall answer.

They are *working*, however they get generated every 5 minutes on a scrip that runs called "cron", and I have been fighting since launch to get cron not to fail.

It works most of the time but it's failing on something and as soon as I figure that out our logs will be up-to-the-5-minutes accurate. I might be able to get it down to 1 minute if all goes well.

I haven't included IP addresses yet, that was special Melo 2.0 functionality that I'm going to have to rewrite in 3.0.

And as for anonymous logs, I am not sure if that gets logged when they just *attempt* to visit your post, or if they actually do. I tested all of my accounts and my FO entries are *not* exposed to public users, and the same for my "only allow logged in users to visit my page".

If you can verify that any of your protected content is actually not protected please let me know ASAP. If I have one example of a failure I can reproduce it and fix it everywhere else it might be happening.

Thanks for everything!

It could take a while to get to everything. I'll clean up any remaining users who have submitted feedback about being unable to edit manually in the morning.

Site should be slow through the night while this runs.