Comments, Search and Registration

August 19th, 2005

Some major software updates today. I’ve enabled comments for registered users. I understand that it can be annoying to sign up just to comment but it’s relatively quick and easy and the fact that you have to sign up is absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I haven’t coded in proper guests support. The default markup language is Markdown but there’s Textile, HTML, BBCode and Plain Text as alternative markup languages if you prefer them.

Search

Search has been enabled the whole time but I wanted to point out some of the specifics. Firstly, it’s one search box for everything. You can find members and content through the search box. For example, search for cow.

Secondly we support a feature which I tentatively called IntelliAnswer when very short of ideas. It’s allows you to type a question in the search box and get an answer. For example, “what is cow’s webpage?” or “what is sunny_boy’s location?”. Obviously it’s a very early version and an experimental feature/idea and queries such as “Where does cow live?” are beyond it’s understanding.

Registration

Registration has been enabled. Because the permissions system hasn’t been fully implemented, when logged in you will see the form which I use to add blog entries. (Hopefully) it won’t actually allow you to actually create a blog post.

By the way, this software is now powering neonDragon.net. Both are VHOSTed to the same folder. The script loads a different configuration file for each domain which in turn loads a different skin and object tables. Things like the user tables are shared.