Ian Smith

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• Charlie Stross commented on Inbound maintenance!
  Ian: anonymous commenting should be permitted again. (I'm still learning the control interface -- MT 4 is very different from MT 3.33.) Dave: I've no idea what's causing your problem, but I suspect it's probably IE5 choking on the CSS. I'd better warn you that the site is going to get a little more complex in the near future; I'm going to try and keep the graphics lightweight (because I've got a lot of readers -- if I start using 500Kb images as part of my layout, my bandwidth bill will go through the roof), but you may want to...
• Charlie Stross commented on Inbound maintenance!
  Pablo: I currently use an LJ account (friends-locked) for critiquing early drafts of my fiction. I want to be able to move that function onto my own server -- but it's not public; I want to expose it only to people I know. Hence: logins. I'm also thinking in terms of improving the comment system (possibly going to threaded discussions). And another reason for the upgrade is to make it easier to nuke comment spam (of which I get a fair bit). Jon: yes, that's being looked at. MT 4.x handles HTML entities in comment headers differently from MT 3.33....
• Feòrag commented on Inbound maintenance!
  Jon@17: Mended now!...
• M. Ellis commented on Inbound maintenance!
  The one problem I have with the site is that because of the relative lack of columns, it tends to be very wide; too wide to read in portrait form on my iPhone! Have to put it into landscape. Not sure if there's a good way to deal with this. (Perhaps some CSS that detects iPhones, and narrows the effective width of the screen to something legible in portrait.)...
• Serraphin commented on Inbound maintenance!
  Figured out my login problem. If anyone has a notebook/machine that uses any kind of single sign in system (biometrics on my HP notebook in this case), it appears to completely flip out the Typepad login. Turn off single sign in and Bob's your transgender relative of choice....