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 March 29, 2006 : Dynamic blog content images

Crablog blog content image

Since the beginning Crablog has had the ability to generate an image with the contents of the blogs most recent post. This is useful for inserting in to many profiles, such as Myspace, where dynamic content can be hard to insert. This is the way it has looked since it was first created; this is the next feature that will be worked on. It needs a fresh and clean look, and some bugs need to be worked out. Look in on your account page soon for information on using this feature.

Posted by Paul at 9:59 am (Permalink)


Saturday February 04, 2006 : Templates

Blog with template example

Users can now change the look and feel of their blog by making new or using existing skins. There is no support or documentation on how to use templates, but a quick tutorial and reference page will be made shortly. Two examples of the new template system can be seen here and here, both of these skins were adapted (easily and quickly) from other major blog template formats.

Posted by Paul at 11:09 am (Permalink)


Wednesday November 09, 2005 : Internally and soon externally

We are making some good progress overall here. We are in the process of sorting our priorities, making sure the important things happen first. The only problem is actually deciding what the most important stuff is. There is a lot of red tape around here; we can't just implement everything we think of without consulting the people above us. (If you are an insider here that should make a lot of sense)

Posted by Paul at 7:00 pm (Permalink)


Thursday November 03, 2005 : Hundredth post

This post will be the take the number of posts in the system in to the triple digits, but how many digits can we go before it breaks?

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