Kiya :: Friends blog

http://magicalexperiments.wordpress.com

http://imagineyourreality@wordpress.com

http://www.thegreenwolf.com

http://www.imagineyourreality.com 

This blog isn't exactly drawing me to post in it. I'm sure many of you share those feelings. It'll pick up in time. Meanwhile I'm more focused on http://www.spiritcompanion.com Much better!

More later.

Default Settings:
I've set all current users to the following settings:

Public comments: On
Comment notifications: On
File storage: 1 byte (effectively disabling the system except for administrators)
User icons: 20

These settings are being done manually until Matt can set it up as a blanket rule. Since we've only got ~130 registered users right now, it didn't take long.

If you wish to change your comment settings, click "Account Settings" at the top right in the gray bar. You will also find, at the bottom of that page, where to set your blog editor (wysiwyg by default; this can be turned off).

If you have questions or comments, leave a comment at this post.

Premier accounts

I'm considering what to grant Premier account holders who use their blogs regularly. I'm thinking, so far, that anyone with a full profile by the middle of the year 2008 who also regularly uses their blogs for six months following sign-up (posting at least once a week), will be granted 100 user icons permanently, along with any other paid account options we offer within a set period (to be determined), all free. The Premier account will only be offered to the first 500 users who meet the criteria. The terms of this offer may evolve, particularly the mid-2008 time limit if the site doesn't take off very fast.

- Sheta

I hope many of you will do more blogging here as things pick up. I've started crossposting here, pretty much everything I put in my LiveJournal, and intend to post more personal stuff here (which I'm filtering - you can find the filter controls on "Your friends" page in the "Access Controls" link) in preparation for the move. Deeply personal stuff will be on a "safe" filter, and other, less crucial material will be friends only or logged in users only.

Hope you'll join me.

I've been up since about noon yesterday (20.5 hours) working on the new issue. I've got seven more articles (and their "accessories") left to do, including final edits, code, graphics, etc. I've reached the end of my endurance for now, and will have to get some sleep. The birds (we have two very noisy Quaker parrots) waking up 10 feet away from me did quite a bit to influence my decision to just go to bed.

I'll be back later. Today is due to include sleep, finishing this magazine, and making the bulk of my daughter's Halloween costume.

First, sleep. But it's gonna be a great issue!

Next priority: Find out how to use the other nine icons I uploaded. :-|

Welcome to the new blogging feature of Rending the Veil. I'm pleased to be a part of this project, and look forward to adding all my LiveJournal friends who think that Six Apart is messing things up over there. Let the mass migration begin! :D

As is no doubt obvious by the time you see this, we've implemented the new blogs, based on the Elgg blogging platform. We're still working out the kinks as well as various little things we don't care for (such as link text). Right now, for instance, we're working on keeping the system from compressing the profile images if images are kept within a certain parameter, but we're between tweaks, so the images are liable to look pretty strange for a bit. We have successfully prevented the platform from squishing user icons in the sidebar (which I thought was a stupid idea to begin with - it's not like they're big anyway). If your computer's resolution is less than 1024 x 768, you may see some page distortion or scrollbars in the sidebars. Feel free to complain to webmaster@rendingtheveil.com if it's intolerable. You might also consider tweaking your resolution enough to split the difference.

I'm sure we'll be adjusting the details for a while, so you have time to get your suggestions or bug reports in. We aspire to finishing the worst of it by official launch on October 31, but that may be optimistic. ;-) We'll see.

Thanks so much for joining us!  I hope you'll like it here as much as I think you will.

- Sheta Kaey
RTV Managing Editor