M. Ellis

Comment Threads

• Dave Moore commented on Inbound maintenance!
  Charlie, because your site was so simple, I have gotten into the habit of accessing it with my old computer running IE5. Naturally, with such an old browser, stange things happen on a lot of sites, but yours has a unique feature. The text on your home page randomily varies between Times Roman and Arial. Do you have any idea what causes this? I just find it intruging....
• 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!...
• 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....