Crablog

Saturday March 31, 2007 : Can't go a year without any news

We here at crablog (pronounce it however you want) are committed to offering our users a blogging experience of the highest caliber. Even though there has not been a single post to the official crablog blog in almost a year, we have been busy behind the scenes working on other projects not remotely related to crablog because they were more interesting to us at the time. But recently some users have become annoyed by the amount of comment spam they get in their blogs, and they are tired of manually going through the database and removing all of it. Even though it is quick to remove it all, it seems like a fun task to make a complicated method to handle the comment spam automatically. So we give our personal commitment to ourselves (since we are basically the only people who use crablog for blog hosting) to take care of the spam problem. Obviously the CAPTCHA image was not completely working, we will look in to this and other methods of curbing the comment spam. If you are an avid reader and commenter on a blog (one of the few blogs on here, none of which are worth reading), then we please ask that you report any problems you may be encountering when trying to leave comments!

Posted by Paul at 4:21 pm (Permalink)


Wednesday January 04, 2006 : Post directly to your blog from other websites

A basic posting API (subset of the blogger / metaweblog API) has been implemented. You can now post to your blog using standard blogging clients and other services such as Digg and Flickr. See your account control panel for more information. We will be expanding the API to support more functionality and compatibility soon.

Posted by Paul at 11:32 pm (Permalink)


Friday December 09, 2005 : We now have basic AJAX

Crablog now has basic AJAX functionality. To see an example go here and try to search for "butters" or "Guinness" by typing slowly one letter at a time. Besides the search as you type functionality, we have also made the archive links use AJAX too. No more waiting for each page of every month to download from the webserver when you click. For now, when on any Crablog page, just find "AJAX" on the menu to the left to view that page with these new features.

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