In all my years making software and working with users, I've never worked with so great a group of people. Amazing. I know I've said it before but I continue to be impressed! :-)#
I said in a comment today -- developers need support too. #
Three things changed re blogs in today's Old School changes.#
When rendering a blog, an outline must have one of three types. outline, tweet, link. We may add other types, but headlines must have a type attribute with one of these values to be a blog post. #
Every headline should have a created attribute. That value and the value of the timeZoneOffset head-level attribute are what we key on to know which day "bucket" a post belongs in.#
You can delete days of posts at the end of your outline without them disappearing from your blog. This is an essential feature for a blog like Scripting News, that has been in the same OPML file for 4.5 years. I have to be able to remove stuff. I actually completely clear my outline at the beginning of every month after archiving it in the Scripting-News repo.#
Use the big plus icon to create new posts and everything will work well. You can add the the attributes by hand, and I can't imagine why you'd want to do that. Of course you can add and change atts with scripts. 😄#
So if you rebuild your blog using the Build My Blog command in the Tools menu, it should work as if it were being built in Experiment 3, except it will be at the real address of your blog. #
Hopefully it will operate smoothly. Fingers crossed. Hoping for the best, expecting the worst. #
It would be helpful if everyone who sees this, whether or not you're in a Far East timezone, tries to build with the new CMS, just to test it out, so you have used it before it becomes the only option.#
The previous version is in pretty bad shape, I really want to get the new version installed and get beyond the date problems. #
In all my years making software and working with users, I've never worked with so great a group of people. Amazing. I know I've said it before but I continue to be impressed! :-)#
I said in a comment today -- developers need support too. #
Three things changed re blogs in today's Old School changes.#
When rendering a blog, an outline must have one of three types. outline, tweet, link. We may add other types, but headlines must have a type attribute with one of these values to be a blog post. #
Every headline should have a created attribute. That value and the value of the timeZoneOffset head-level attribute are what we key on to know which day "bucket" a post belongs in.#
You can delete days of posts at the end of your outline without them disappearing from your blog. This is an essential feature for a blog like Scripting News, that has been in the same OPML file for 4.5 years. I have to be able to remove stuff. I actually completely clear my outline at the beginning of every month after archiving it in the Scripting-News repo.#
Use the big plus icon to create new posts and everything will work well. You can add the the attributes by hand, and I can't imagine why you'd want to do that. Of course you can add and change atts with scripts. 😄#
So if you rebuild your blog using the Build My Blog command in the Tools menu, it should work as if it were being built in Experiment 3, except it will be at the real address of your blog. #
Hopefully it will operate smoothly. Fingers crossed. Hoping for the best, expecting the worst. #
It would be helpful if everyone who sees this, whether or not you're in a Far East timezone, tries to build with the new CMS, just to test it out, so you have used it before it becomes the only option.#
The previous version is in pretty bad shape, I really want to get the new version installed and get beyond the date problems. #