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Minor maintenance issues
A couple quick reminders (knock on Natalie Wood but the server remains up and running):

1) Don't embed links in the title, as one poster did yesterday (the air marshal article). That can really hose things. Put the source link in the 'source' box, not the 'title' box, of the poster page.

2) Keep page 1 and page 2 straight: page 1 is for the WoT, page 2 is pretty much everything else. Keeping it straight means faster loads later in the day.

3) Fred has said it before and I'll repeat it: please edit the fluff. The editors can put stuff on page 71 but it takes time. Remove all the extraneous stuff.

4) Don't post an article from another weblog; Rantburg is for hard news and commentary based on that news.

5) Don't feed the trolls, for the same reason that you don't ever mud-wrestle a pig: you both get dirty. And the pig likes it.

As a side note, I've almost finished the alternative front page to Rantburg in PHP. It's set up with the columns reversed so you can tell where you are. If you try to open this page (the .asp) version and it's broken, try index.php. Because it uses a different set of programs to access the database, chances are it'll be working unless the server's ground to an absolute halt.

I fixed the problem with posting headlines by rewriting the page that does the work in PHP as well, so I'll probably end up building an entire second version of the site in PHP.

Since the site was up when I went to bed last night, and it was up this morning, I'm assuming most of the major bugs are killed. Let me know when you find smaller ones. My next stop, once I've got the front page rebuilt, will be to rebuild all the data input pages. At some point the bugs will stop biting us and I'll have a few moments to actually concentrate on WoT.

Posted by: Steve White 2004-08-09
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=40039