What's new in Blink 11nov13
Nov 12, 2013
- The cull.cgi script has been moved into blink as an admin call.
New in Blink 09nov13 (Nov 11, 2013)
- A system using the SHORT variable has been introduced to keep the blog's pages at or under the hosting service's compute-cycle limit.
- By setting SHORT to true and CYCLES to number of pages which can be served daily, blog use will be kept within the monthly limit.
New in Blink 27oct13 (Oct 28, 2013)
- A bugfix was made in the ACCESS system.
- A typo was fixed in cull.cgi.
New in Blink 25oct13 (Oct 26, 2013)
- A bug in the despam method was fixed.
- The access list has been moved from the CGI script to a file.
- Adding IP addresses to the access list has been automated through the admin log.
New in Blink 23oct13 (Oct 24, 2013)
- The "Next Page" link now correctly displays the earliest entries if they are less than COUNT in number.
- cull.cgi has been added to the download. This allows the user to view the entries from earliest to latest and delete entries that are no longer relevant.
New in Blink 21oct13 (Oct 21, 2013)
- When spam entries are removed from the blog, their entries are now deleted from the admin log.
New in Blink 18oct13 (Oct 19, 2013)
- Spam handling has been refined so that it uses fewer resources.
New in Blink 12oct13 (Oct 14, 2013)
- A safety feature was added to prevent anyone but the owning IP of a post from overwriting it.
- This allows the owner to edit a new post with the "back" button, but prevents spammers from overwriting the post.
- The remaining tmpfile used in the CGI was converted to internal methods.
- No tmpfiles are used any more by blink.
- The possibly futile ban mechanism, using $BANNED, was replaced with an optional access mechanism, using $ACCESS.
- The noisy grep call was silenced.
New in Blink 05oct13 (Oct 7, 2013)
- The open post feature has been improved.
- A SHORT variable has been introduced for temporary shutdowns.
New in Blink 14aug13 (Aug 14, 2013)
- More bugfixes have been made to tags and searching.
New in Blink 16jun13 (Jun 17, 2013)
- A bugfix was made for the case where, in what appears to be a bot-generated call, $START had no value and a page with no posts was generated.
New in Blink 15jun13 (Jun 15, 2013)
- A bug in the admin's deletion mode was fixed.
New in Blink 14jun13 (Jun 15, 2013)
- Blink's "next" link now loads a full page of $COUNT entries.
- Ephemera adds the remote client's IP address to its log.
New in Blink 26may13 (May 29, 2013)
- The ephemera.cgi variant has been added.
- It displays all posts, deletes posts older than 24 hours, and is much simpler than blink.
- As for blink, bugfixes and refinements were made for the new naming scheme.
- Back button editing of current posts was restored.
New in Blink 10oct12 (Feb 13, 2013)
- Improved safety of admin file deletion.