Matt – Page 198 – Matt on Not-WordPress, mostly photos

Back to the Future

There was a catastrophic hard drive failure on the central database server very early this morning, Donncha was on the ball and switched all the traffic to a recent backup so most things would work while we investigated the hardware failure. This means that an old version of your site was shown for a fewContinue reading “Back to the Future”

New Datacenter and Caching

As we announced on the dashboard, on Friday around 1 AM we moved WordPress.com to a new datacenter and a new set of servers. A month or so ago a similar transition didn’t go so well so we tested things very heavily before the change and thanks to the hard work of Donncha and RyanContinue reading “New Datacenter and Caching”

Announcing Akismet

So for all of you who were wondering what the API keys are for, go check out Akismet, a new solution to comment spam. Of course this is just the first of several things in the oven. 🙂 Of course on WordPress.com we’re already handling all your spam problems for you, so no need toContinue reading “Announcing Akismet”

Flock out of the bag

We’re seeing a lfew new Flockers around these parts. As some of you may know, WordPress.com is the first choice blogging engine inside of Flock. Anyway folks, welcome to the party. 🙂

Blogging from Flock

This is another test post from Flock. It seems a lot more polished than those 0.2 days. Technorati Tags: flock, the mully Update: It produces bad HTML, but so does everybody. It seems faster than Firefox, but that could be because I use Firefox 1.0.x and this is based on 1.5.

API Keys

Savvy users of WordPress.com will notice something new on your profile page. What’s it for? Time will tell. Let’s just say WordPress.com is going to become a lot more useful for people who already have WordPress blogs. Cheers to Donncha for rolling this out, as I’m still mostly incapacitated right now.

Well that’s better

The slowness and problems of the last day or two have been resolved. Some of the new hardware that was set up for us had some configuration and OS issues that were causing a ton of errors, but that’s no longer an issue and things are back to normal. Please use the feedback form ifContinue reading “Well that’s better”

Custom Header

I switched my site to using the default WP template (Kubrick) but with the new custom header functionality Donncha just turned on to “pimp my blog.”

Shirt Remix

I did a short presentation yesterday (the “dance off”) at Webzine and I was weirding a Blogger shirt because they had just given me one and they have the best clothing of any of the blog tools. Anyway, Niall felt bad that WP doesn’t have any schwag (yet!) and remixed my shirt.

Webzine Invites

Just a quick note for those folks trying to use the Webzine invite form: It only works if you’re physically on the Webzine wireless network! So take a laptop to the conference tomorrow and sign up then.

WordPress Design Thoughts

Greg Storey just wrote an article that claims: In several ways I think WordPress has a lot going for it functionally but in order for the software to seriously gain market share the developers need to recognize that design is needed to complete the product. […] And if WordPress can’t figure this out their applicationContinue reading “WordPress Design Thoughts”

More Dashboard Experiments

A few more changes to the Dashboard tonight. First we’ve dropped down the number of “top” blogs and highlighted more “up and coming” blogs. This list should change more and be a bit more dynamic. Second is we’ve re-enabled the “incoming links” section which we had to disable before due to timeouts. However this timeContinue reading “More Dashboard Experiments”