January 10, 2018

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We’re back online

Apologies for the site being unavailable most of today – we were doing some work last night to optimize some of our databases to make the entry saving faster, and some of the database work went awry. We had to rebuild one of our instances, which should have taken much less time than it actually did – in the end, we were offline for many more hours than we would like.

I’m sorry for this, but it was useful for us in the end, because it taught us some things about the security and replication processes for our new systems – so if we ever have a problem like this again it should take way less time to recover.

Thanks for your patience!

Maui Jim

Aloha…

I echo WildRose’s note…! (smiles)

Violet

January 11, 2018

Good to know. I thought there might have been something wrong with my computer. With my luck, it could have gone either way. For once, I lucked out. Thanks!

SillySillySandee

Being a beta tester, we expect these things to happen or at least should. I suppose that’s is why you stress to let you know when things are acting silly. You guys are doing great! Everything is coming together nicely. I just put in a ticket for a couple of things that have been happening. Thank you DM and your crew for all that you are doing! I am so honored to be part of this.

Peter's Shadow

Ditto what SillySandy says above. Honored.

Jane Says

Database work went awry? That never happens! ;D

BedlamHillFarm

Thanks for all your efforts, and getting us out of the “OD Drought”.

If I can ask a question about notifications. I seem to get an alert when someone leaves a note on an entry, but if someone replies to a note that I left, I don’t see anything. Is that the intent, or is it just bugs being worked out?

Icarus Knew

“You can’t work on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom 7″wrench”. Could that be the problem?

Ravioli

Hey, no probs ! We’re here to test things !

Butterfly4Him

@The DiaryMaster: It’s okay about yesterday, as everyone agrees we are Beta Testers, so hear us ALL (including you and your Staff-) Roar!! lol. It ‘s all so exciting. I have friends on Facebook asking me how much longer? They are so excited to jump on this wonderful band wagaon. 🙂 I tell them, not too much longer!! Thanks DM & Staff for everything. Your creation is alive and well!!

So whats your sense of when you expect to throw the doors open on this puppy?

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January 12, 2018

@icarusknew we are targeting the next few days, we have just a couple things left to wrap up. Thanks!

I swear I left a note here. Where did it go? And, speaking of which, where is the link for note history? That’s a link of all the notes you have left.

@m_4 you did! When we reset the system when we were having problems the other night, we lost a couple notes that were posted as we were coming back online – yours was one of them.

You can see your note history if you go to your Profile and look at the Activity feed for “Just Me” – that shows all the notes you have left.

@thediarymaster. Goodmoning. I checked the “help file” first, and not finding what I’m looking for, I feel only slightly better about bothering you. If I write an entry and hashtag it “rant” I see other like entries by clicking my hash tag. Given. But, how do I find hashtag-ed entries that I’m interested in, but have not written yet? I.e. Where to I look for #favebooks? My thanks!!

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@petersshadow when we bring the search function for the site back, it will include searching for hashtag results like this as well.

In the meantime, you can do it straight from the browser by typing the URL (which is a bit of a pain, but works) – like this:

https://www.opendiary.com/tag/travel/

whatever word you put in that last bit will return all of the tagged entries.

@thediarymaster Thank you for your reply, and your efforts.

@ Diary Master: Will you please remind me of the name of the “HELP” diary? I’m trying to size pictures in paint, on my comp/ and even though I make them bigger, they always come on my entry smaller. I don’t know what I am doing wrong, and don’t want to submit a ticket, as it’s not an OD issue, that I know of, lol. Thank You, Lois

@butterfly4him you can get to it by hitting Help in the main menu! However, I don’t think there’s much info there yet on image sizing. Go ahead and send in a ticket and we’ll try to help!