Journal editing

[charlie]

I hadn't seen this topic before and would be kinda interested in checking out some of these stats-- unfortunately, that link doesn't seem to be working.

[ryan]

The stats are on the info pages. Go back to the mokey home page, and click on the picture of "Mokey", on the right above the "Mokeys Only" link. Then click on any mokey to see the stats.

[ross]

You'll notice that you now have the option to declare an entry as public or private.

I spent some time changing the journal privacy a bit. You now select from three options: Public, Private, and Fort Knox. Public and Private work as before. Fort Knox is basically a paranoia thing. Since we do not use SSL, it is possible, however unlikely, that someone could eavesdrop and see all private journal entries that are pulled across the web. Moreover, these entries most likely reside somewhere in browser caches. That represents two ways that someone could potentially read what should be something for mokeys eyes only.

Granted, this is the height of paranoia. Realistically, is anyone with the technical resources needed going to care about your journal enough to attempt to discover the private entries? I think not. With Fort Knox, no one can view your entries except for you. And right now you can only view them by clicking the Edit link. Note that this feature is not intended to prevent all mokeys from viewing the entry. Me, Ryan, and Chris (and therefore Heather) all have access to the database and can easily look up the journal entry there. So do NOT use Fort Knox with the intention of keeping the entry from other mokeys. Use Fort Knox to minimize and control the number of times the entry is sent across the web.

Since I am pretty much the only mokey who is paranoid about privacy and who tends to push the boundries of decency and private thought in my journal, I envision that this will be a Ross-specific feature.

[Heather]

That's right, bitches...
All your secrets are belong to ME!

I must have missed the part in our vows where I got root.

[ross]

By popular demand (and me having a free Sunday), we now have journal comments! You can post a comment on anyone's journal, but you will only be able to see/post comments if you're logged in. On the TODO list is the ability to edit and delete comments.

Enjoy!

[ross]

Maybe I'll give mokeys a search function for Christmas.

And two Christmases later, the search function is a reality! There is now a link on the journal selection page that will lead you to the search page. Note that you do have to be logged in for the link to appear. The search is pretty rudimentary right now, but it works. I'm thinking about listing the search results as some sort of digest instead of the full journal entries - what do you think about that? Anyway, Merry Christmas, Mokeys!

[ryan]

Can you add a link to each matching entry? Also, there's a </font> bug in there somewhere, search for 2004 in journal for a repro.

[ryan]

Ok, the bug is in how it replaces the search term. If my search term is used as a URL in an href="", it still gets replaced.

[ross]

Ok, the bug is in how it replaces the search term. If my search term is used as a URL in an href="", it still gets replaced.

This is now fixed.

[ryan]

I guess this Christmas announcement is from last year. Are we gonna see a gift this year?

[ross]

The mokeys will get a gift of joomla. In the next week or so you'll load up mokeys, and everything will look completely different, you won't know what the hell to do, and it will take years to get back the functionality that we already have. Merry f'ing Christmas.