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Welcome to Minxville, Population 1

Here we are, up and running on the almost-beta version of Minx (instead of the old alpha version). The limited beta test will start on Tuesday (March 6th) for existing mu.nu users, with a larger-scale test following on the 13th, weather permitting.

Have a look around, let me know if you run into any hiccups. The title box looks a bit funny under Internet Explorer; I'll be hacking on the CSS tonight to see if I can fix that.

Most of the rest should be mostly working. I think.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:31 PM | Comments (20) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 I like how it looks so far.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, March 05 2007 06:04 AM (3R0bS)

2 In Firefox, the top title box needs some padding along the bottom because the letter's descenders are chopped off.

Other than that nitpick it looks good so far...

Oops, there's a "bracket-body-bracket" html tag at the bottom of this comment section, just above the "Post" button.

Hmmmmm... looks like maybe you were displaying tags for debugging, because a "bracket-br-bracket" tag appears after I hit Enter and disappears after I begin typing the next line.

The CoolIris Firefox add-on seems to work just dandy with Minx.

Posted by: Ted at Monday, March 05 2007 09:42 AM (3R0bS)

3 The title box looked fine to me, then I bumped my font sizes up a notch and it went to pieces.  (Like what you describe, but worse.)  I'll fix that - using fixed font sizes should do the trick.

That <BR> thingy is supposed to be there. smile   It's showing you the HTML markup as you type, and you can actually click on it and remove unwanted tags.

Posted by: Also Pixy at Monday, March 05 2007 09:49 AM (3R0bS)

4 And if you click in the middle of marked-up text, you can see exactly what the markup is.  Also, if you click on the <> thingy in the toolbar you can see the raw HTML.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, March 05 2007 11:49 AM (PiXy!)

5 Uh...

Methinks the IP tracker is borked.  We can't all be 3R0bs!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, March 05 2007 11:50 AM (PiXy!)

6 Ah.  That'll be the reverse proxy. Blast.

I'm pretty sure I can still get the original IP another way...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, March 05 2007 11:53 AM (PiXy!)

7 Let's try that again!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, March 05 2007 11:59 AM (PiXy!)

8 Booyah!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, March 05 2007 11:59 AM (PiXy!)

9 Now, why did I end up using the reverse proxy instead of iptables dnat?  I don't remember.  But it works, so what the heck.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, March 05 2007 12:37 PM (PiXy!)

10 Test, juan, too, tree. <BR> tags?

Posted by: Old Grouch at Monday, March 05 2007 11:35 PM (oHrKR)

11 Indeed, <BR> tags.  Are you using the fancy editor (which should show up for IE and Firefox) or the boring editor (Opera/Safari/other)?

I'm testing Safari/Opera-compliant HTML editors, so we should have fancy editors for everyone shortly.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, March 06 2007 12:29 AM (uj4NK)

12 Testy... Testy... Testy...

It's looking good to me.  I'm on Firefox.  :-)

Posted by: Teresa at Tuesday, March 06 2007 01:19 AM (gsbs5)

Posted by: Old Grouch at Tuesday, March 06 2007 08:37 PM (8HHla)

14 ...and no "preview" at all, which provides an excuse for borking the link in the previous post!

Posted by: Old Grouch at Tuesday, March 06 2007 08:40 PM (8HHla)

15 Ah, okay.  The fancy editor provides its own preview; the boring editor gives you nothing at all.

I'll be enabling comment editing in the next couple of days, so at least you'll be able to go back and fix borked links.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, March 06 2007 10:28 PM (uj4NK)

16

I've always had very mixed feelings about comment editing. Sometimes when I foul up I want it, but it also bothers me that it permits people to "change the past".

I know that you need to enable it here so it can be tested, but for political blogs (e.g. the Jawas) presumably it will be possible for them to turn it off if they want to. The blog owner should have the ability to edit anything, but it ought to be possible to prevent their commentors from doing so.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, March 07 2007 05:07 AM (+rSRq)

17 I'm setting it up with time limit, which can be chose by the site owner.  So if you spot a mistake you can fix it, but you can't come back the next day and change things.

Also, I'm not allowing blog owners to edit comments.  They can remove comments, of course, and they can add a reply within the comment, but they don't have access to edit comments arbitrarily.

If you're not allowed to change your own words, you certainly don't want other people changing your words!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, March 07 2007 05:44 AM (PiXy!)

18 You broke the site feed. And it took me... only 5 days to notice? I'm good :-)

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sunday, March 11 2007 03:58 AM (9imyF)

19 Yeah, I'm working on that.  There are a couple of bugs in Minx that are preventing the RSS from validating at the moment.  I should have a feed working again tomorrow or the next day.

Meanwhile, welcome to the new site!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, March 11 2007 04:58 AM (uj4NK)

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