Ficlets

Hello, ficleteers! I had a few spare minutes this afternoon and decided it was high time I fix some bugs and add a couple little features. I don’t like doing Friday installs, or installing things in the middle of the day, so I’m going to wait to Monday morning to throw the new stuff up. So, we may be down for a little while on Monday while I get things squared away. Here’s what should be fixed by lunchtime (on the East Coast of the U. S. of A., anyway):

• Comment counts: You know how the little comment bubble underneath the title is always zero? No more! I need to do a huge database update, but after the install, that number should get updated correctly when comments are added.
• Contacts’ Stories Feed: This has been suggested a couple times, and well, it was easy since I’ve already got it showing up on the homepage. You’ll be able to get a feed of all your contacts’ most recent stories in one place. It’ll only pull 15, so if your contacts are super-prolific, you may want to keep their individual feeds, but you asked for it, so you’re getting it.
• Accidental Multiple Comment Posting: A couple people reported that it’s really easy to post the same comment multiple times on the blog. That’s fixed too.
• Pagination on author profile pages: I know, it’s about time! We have some intrepid folks who’ve posted 300 ficlets, and it’s about time we make it so it doesn’t take 5 minutes to load their pages. I should have done this one a long time ago.

Like I said, Monday morning, the latest goodness should be installed.

Update Number One: I’ve started the install. Things may be funky for the next half hour or so (hopefully not that long, but you never know).

Update Number Two: All done! If you find any problems, please report the bug or post a comment on this entry.

Update Number Three: Ooops, I was in a rush when I did the install, so I didn’t run the big update to fix the comment counts. So, any new comments posted on your stories will increment the count, but it’s not counting older comments. I’m off today (and don’t have a good enough connection to VPN in, SSH to two hosts and run it with any real confidence that it’ll finish before I get bumped), and then off to London next week, but I’ll fix it as soon as I can.