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• 1 admin (jlaff09) // Apr 29, 2008 at 5:40 pm

  An addendum: If you have any questions about how to do something or anything of a more technical nature, feel free to directly write

  jlaff09 at amherst dot edu (batman)

  and/or

  eandrews09 at amherst dot edu (robin).

  Those guys are the two who (kind of?) know how the whole deal works.

• 2 rbilton (rbilton10) // Apr 30, 2008 at 1:08 pm

  Any chance of implementing custom headers? Things are looking especially bland around these parts.

  Also, you guys need a logo.

• 3 Aaron Nathan (anathan10) // Apr 30, 2008 at 9:47 pm

  yess…we need a logo. and Erik totally looks like Robin.

• 4 Ricardo Bilton (rbilton10) // May 1, 2008 at 12:23 pm

  Erik -

  The custom header idea would allow the blog writers a bit more liberty with customizing their space. I don’t think it would be too hard to implement, but I know very little webdesign, so I cant say for certain.

  A few other things that might improve the site:
  1) A developer blog where you guys post about what you are working on. It would likewise be a better feedback/bug-reporting forum than this page.

  2) A “BlogWatch” where users can track the posts of specific favorite blogs. (Yes, that is an intentional PlanWorld reference)

  3) More clear indication of how a blog’s title will appear with the author. Not sure if you noticed this, but more than a few people have given their blogs their username. This may or may not have been intentional, of course.

  At any rate, I’m sure a lot of new features will be added in the coming - especially Summer - months.

  Things are looking great so far, by the way.

• 5 irradient (yhuang11) // May 4, 2008 at 2:28 pm

  Users should have the option of being able to remove the tag cloud.

  With FireStats, is it really a good idea to be able to see everyone’s IP addresses? Same thing goes for anyone who writes a comment on a post–the email sent to the blog’s author includes that individual’s IP address.

  I have no idea what the “pingback” is, only that it leaves a comment on my blog post and fools me into thinking that people actually read my blog. Sad times.

  To be fair to the coders: I know everyone is probably working very hard to get the site even better. It took me a while to find the “Feedback” page…perhaps you could make it more obvious on the home page? Right now you are asking people to complain on Jolt…

• 6 admin (jlaff09) // May 6, 2008 at 10:23 am

  Thanks for the feedback everyone, and please keep it coming. This summer Jimmy and I will hopefully have the time and motivation to address these issues. We have a lot of our own ideas stewing that we plan on tackling as well.

  @ irradient: the pingback feature is kind of bizarre and I’m not sure it is functioning properly right now. If you’re interested in general about the idea of pingbacks/trackbacks, check out:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback

  Also of note is that they can be disabled in the “write” tab: un-check “allow pings” under the blue “discussion” window, located to the right of the post window.

  For IP addresses being displayed, a more knowledgeable user can correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think this is such a worry. If it does become abused by the formidably large evil Amherst l33t haxor contingent (NOTE!), we will simply disable it.

  As per Ricardo’s brilliant suggestion, this page will eventually morph into a developer blog and become much more populated with information. Another summertime project to tack onto the list…

• 7 Jeff Gang (jgang09) // May 8, 2008 at 3:04 am

  does any old person browsing these pages get to see the email addresses of all commenters in plain text? [i don't think it's always been visible as it seems to be now...] that strikes me as a spam-inviting strategy.

• 8 hype (tsheng11) // Jul 2, 2008 at 9:36 am

  Having a hard time with the wordpress stuff–links I create don’t work, can’t change the layout, allignment is messed up when I publish posts, etc.

• 9 Ricardo Bilton (rbilton10) // Jul 8, 2008 at 11:36 pm

  Did you guys die or something? Why is the site still in beta?

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