Today I've been receiving some flack because I warned a couple users about making personal attacks against other users.  I did not say they were guilty of this offence; I simply indicated that I had received complaints from some other users, and that their actions were be ing monitored.  Personally I'm not interested in playing the "he said", "she said" game.  I really don't have the time or the patience for that...  On the other hand, we obviously cannot tolerate users attacking each other; personally, racially, or otherwise...

So what should we do in these situations?

To me this is mostly common sense (treat others as you wish to be treated), but some users are asking for "ground rules" when it comes to tBlurt, tMail and Commenting (what you post on your blog is your own business in my opinion -- unless it violates our terms and conditions).

Not a bad idea... We can call them the 7 laws of tBlog  (or something like that).  And guess what?  These rules will set by you, the users of tBlog.  Let us know what you consider important (be reasonable) in terms of rules, and I'll start compiling a list...  Please comment away (cringe)...

Nick

The stats system has been turned back on, but we're currently only tracking visits by other tBlog users, and visits generated via a referrer (for example: a visitor links to your blog via a search engine, another web site, or another blog).  This is the most interesting and informative data IMHOP.

Unfortunately, this is the current comprimise between collecting too much visitor data, and not collecting any visitor dat a...  Our primary focus here is (and should be) blogging, and we consider stats a much lower priority; especially when it comes to site uptime and responsiveness.  What are your thoughts?

Nick

Some of you have pointed out that the logging system is not functioning correctly... This is why: Our current logging system consists of approximately 7 million records on average, and the constant insertion and deletion of these records is having an impact on the server performance, so we shut logging off (temporarily) until we can put a more efficient system into place...

Thanks for your continued patience and understanding!

Hey tBloggers! Users keep asking me "How do I add a YouTube video to my blog?", and quite honestly I didn't know what to tell them... Turns out its as easy as pie (What the heck does that mean anyhow? Is pie easy?)!

1). Visit YouTube.com and find the video that you want to insert into your post. Once you have located the video, look for the text field titled "Embed" (to the right of all videos) and copy the code.

2). Return to tBlog and create a new post using the plain view (it helps if you know a little HTML).  Paste the YouTube code into the post editor (I'm going to paste it right after this paragraph), select a category, and click the Publish button.

And that should do it... You might also want to use HTML to center the video just for kicks.

Nick

Hey everybody,

Its official!  I just added our new support page (special thanks to Inkspector for all of her help) to the main menu... Hopefully this will make it a bit easier for newbies (and even some of the "veterans") to find their way...

Let me know if we missed anything obvious!

Thanks,

Nick

New Categories: 

I added a few new categories today (classifieds, music, real estate, travel), and the category pages now contain the first 200 characters from every post for better screening.

Browser Compatibility:

We're still looking for firefox, safari and mozilla users that are having problems with the site... Please tmail your (tblog related) problems to me and we'll get them resolved for once and for all!

Posting & Editing:

We're also planning to make some improvements to the posting system in the near future.  Which view do you use the most?  Which features do you consider the most important?  What new features would you like see?

I compiled a some interesting stats (interesting to me anyway) while researching a problem for one of our Mac users earlier today.  I reviewed the data for the last million visitors and this is what I found:

Browser Used	Visitors
Internet Explorer	820,116
Firefox	287,761
Safari (Mac)	20,670
Opera	19,537
Netscape	10,034
Konqueror	8,998
Mozilla	6101

The big surprise here (okay... i haven't looked in quite a while), was the market share that Firefox has gained!

Operating System	Used By
Windows	91.90%
Linux	4.44%
Mac	3.26%

Linux is more popular than Mac?  According to our visitors it is...

Screen Resolution	Used By
1024x768	57.52%
800x600	16.33%
1280x1024	10.45%

FYI: 640x480 was in 15th place @ 0.22%... LOL