FilmJournal Forum: Last 35 Posts

benburdett on "Rating plugin"

benburdett — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:06:42 +0000

Thanks a lot :-)

ColinP on "Rating plugin"

ColinP — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:37:44 +0000

I've installed this plugin for you. It seems to be working OK, but I haven't fully tested it.

benburdett on "Rating plugin"

benburdett — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:24:32 +0000

Ah! I wasn't being completely stupid then haha. It was this one: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/star-rating-for-reviews/

I could always just find a .gif and add it to my reviews instead if need be.

ColinP on "Rating plugin"

ColinP — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:01:21 +0000

Unfortunately, only plugins we upload are usable.

Which plugin is it? I can take a look and check for compatibility before adding it to the site.

benburdett on "Rating plugin"

benburdett — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:34:34 +0000

I'm trying to upload a plugin using Filezilla but I can't work out what I should put in as the host, I presumed filmjournal.net but that didn't work, and nor did anything else I tried, anyone lend a hand for a bit of a newbie at this? I presume (though I could be wrong here of course) that my username will be 'benburdett' and my password my password for my journal?

Thanks in advance.

ColinP on "IMPORTANT - Server Changes Scheduled"

ColinP — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:10:41 +0000

The server change has now been completed.

ColinP on "IMPORTANT - Server Changes Scheduled"

ColinP — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:59:04 +0000

Hi all,

I'll be doing a database move this afternoon. During this time I will take the site offline for around 15 minutes after which it'll be reopened.

I am currently planning to carry out this maintenance at around 1pm and expect the site to be back online by 1.30pm at the latest.

Please ensure that any articles you are working on are saved and you cease writing at least 10 minutes prior to the site closure time.

Colin

ColinP on "Creating a blog and getting started"

ColinP — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:17:29 +0000

It's up to you. I can delete your account and you can start over if you wish. You can always add another Journal and I can then disable the other one - just browse to:

http://filmjournal.net/YOURJOURNALNAME

You'll then be given the option to add a second journal through your account.

Anonymous on "Creating a blog and getting started"

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:02:17 +0000

Hi all.

I think this may be a question for an administrator. I joined filmjournal earlier today but realised I wanted to change the name of my blog. Having done so, however, I find that the http address still carries the name of the old blog title - is there any way of updating this? I've tried re-registering but I'm now being told that I'm blocked for 24-48 hours. Do I simply need to wait, or is there no point in worrying about the http address?

Apologies if this isn't the place to address this issue.

ColinP on "Filmjournal Newsletter?"

ColinP — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:06:57 +0000

Good idea - definitely something I'll persue :) Thanks for the suggestion John :)

gproject on "Filmjournal Newsletter?"

gproject — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:25:44 +0000

Just to drop my 2 cents: I think this would be a great idea, as long as it didn't turn into too much of a hassle. An easy way of keeping members up to date, as well as a bit of a reminder to those who signed up but don't use the site often. Nice one, John.

John Hodson on "Filmjournal Newsletter?"

John Hodson — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:42:24 +0000

This is a suggestion that's purely down to Colin, but the rest of you might have a view - how about monthly email newsletter, just to give members a little prod on what's new, or with suggestions to promote FJ, or just to get a few more regular posters who might not have blogged for a while?

I'm just wondering how many Filmjournal users regularly pop into the forum and a newsletter might be an ideal way to keep things on the boil.

As I said, down to Colin, but it shouldn't prove too onerous a task, do you think?

John Hodson on "The future of FilmJournal.net"

John Hodson — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:17:50 +0000

Excellent.

ColinP on "The future of FilmJournal.net"

ColinP — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:58:51 +0000

That's fair enough - I'm still working on some other anti-spam features so feel free to keep comments open to all for now :)

Good call on the journal of the month. I'll be updating that next week and I think Michael's blog is certainly in the running.

I'm kicking off a global promotion drive across all of the sites in the next month too so this is hopefully going to cause a decent rise in activity.

John Hodson on "The future of FilmJournal.net"

John Hodson — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:33:35 +0000

Call it ego, call it encouragement, proof that somebody, anybody, is reading, but TBH Colin I'm a little loathe to cut off non-registered users from posting comments - personally, I think it will have the opposite effect and cut down comments. We (well, I for one) need more, not less.

This site does need some higher profile promotion, and prospective users need something more than 'see - you're allowed to post now...'

BTW, as much as I admire Paul's excellent blog; isn't it time to have a new 'Journal of The Month'? To encoursge others, and at least you can flag it as 'news' over at DVD Times? Can I nominate Michael's Georges M�li�s blog, which is fascinating, informative and - at least in this sphere - quite unique.

ColinP on "The future of FilmJournal.net"

ColinP — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:56:12 +0000

Signups are now reopened - I've added a check to attempt to prevent automated registrations so hopefully we'll be able to totally block out any attempted spammers now.

My recommendation is to only allow registered users to comment on your blog entries from now on - that will force users to sign up before posting and might encourage a boost in registrations and new blogs too.

ColinP on "The future of FilmJournal.net"

ColinP — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:48:35 +0000

Once we've got a stable base to work from, I'm going to really start marketing the site a lot more. I'm currently working on a media pack that is going to be used to promote all of the Poisonous Monkey group sites to both advertisers and the general media.

There is a huge potential here and it's harsh to say, but we're being stunted by my original choice of platform which is a huge shame. My plans for a wholesale recode are still underway, but it is going to take longer than I would have hoped. I hope by addressing the various weaknesses of the software as an intermediate solution, we'll be in a much stronger position.

John Hodson on "The future of FilmJournal.net"

John Hodson — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:34:36 +0000

Good news Colin!

ColinP on "The future of FilmJournal.net"

ColinP — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:32:10 +0000

I am actually working on a new registration process at the moment that will take the place of the inbuilt Wordpress one. This will help to strip out the duff blogs and registrations and hopefully will mean we can start plugging things to boost traffic and new blogs again :)

I am also going to be doing some extra anti-spam stuff to try and stop things getting as far as the Akismet filter and then that can just catch the bits that slip through.

John Hodson on "The future of FilmJournal.net"

John Hodson — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:13:22 +0000

A few months since changes were mooted and Film Journal seems a little quiet (and I hold my hands up when it comes to my own journal); any news Colin?

Michael Brooke on "Just wangled a Filmjournal plug in Sight & Sound"

Michael Brooke — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:33:15 +0000

It's on page 84 of the July issue, towards the bottom of the left-hand column.

And Filmjournal also gets a plug on The Bioscope, the early-cinema blog run by the British Library's Luke McKernan - http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/melies-by-instalments/

Livius on "Just wangled a Filmjournal plug in Sight & Sound"

Livius — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:09:49 +0000

Good stuff - keep spreading the good word!

Michael Brooke on "Just wangled a Filmjournal plug in Sight & Sound"

Michael Brooke — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:19:18 +0000

Admittedly only a very small one, but the address http://filmjournal.net will be appearing in the next issue of Sight & Sound, buried in the middle of my review of Flicker Alley's Georges M�li�s set.

Unless they cut it out, of course, but I have it on very good authority (i.e. the editor of the relevant section) that they won't.

Cal on "Akismet Spam Protection"

Cal — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:07:18 +0000

Yes, mine's gone hyper as well. Lots of them are slipping through the net as well and are being identified as genuine comments. I'm passing the thousand mark, and the other day I deleted the lot and when I looked again after a couple of hours, I'd ammassed another five hundred or so. Mad!

clydefro on "Akismet Spam Protection"

clydefro — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:54:02 +0000

Is anyone else getting absolutely bombarded with spam over the last half-week or so? I'm tripping over roughly a thousand a day right now. I'm not hopeful anything can be done, but was curious as to whether others are experiencing the same thing in their spam filters.

John Hodson on "Comments not working?"

John Hodson — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:57:11 +0000

Hmmm; there still is a problem. Any comments with an internet link are shunted straight into spam; upping the 'Hold a comment in the queue if it contains more than x links' (where 'x' is a set number of links) to two or more doesn't seem to sort it. I only know because I received an email from a fellow FJ member telling me he'd posted a comment (which I'd blitzed when I emptied my spam filter), and when he sent it again, it went straight into the spam again.

Getting 100+ spam links per day, it's a little tedious to be sorting through them to sort the good guys from the bad. Any ideas? Is there a way you can have a pre-approved list of posters who could bypass the spam filter altogether?

gproject on "Comments not working?"

gproject — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:32:13 +0000

Glad this seems to be fixed - had a comment arrive in the right place and breathed a sigh of relief as I've managed to be swamped by 359 spam comments in the past 14 hours!

John Hodson on "Comments not working?"

John Hodson — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:05:43 +0000

It's the little known 'Leap Year Bug'.

ColinP on "Signups reopened"

ColinP — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:15:43 +0000

Closed signups again - of the 3000 registrations there have been since they reopened, the number of valid journals was about 10.

ColinP on "Comments not working?"

ColinP — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:14:22 +0000

Seems to have fixed itself. Seems to have been a problem only in March for some reason! I can't make head-nor-tail of this one!

clydefro on "Comments not working?"

clydefro — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:42:37 +0000

Fixed for me to as of now. I made a comment on my own film journal and didn't have to go wading through the muck to find it.

John Hodson on "Comments not working?"

John Hodson — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:35:17 +0000

And fixed; at least it seems so from where I sit.

Well done Colin (or did it mysteriously fix itself?)

Thank God; I very nearly bought some Tramadol; if only I knew what it was for...

Daniel Stephens on "Comments not working?"

Daniel Stephens — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:50:25 +0000

Likewise, I can only apologise for any comments on my blog that haven't appeared. They may have been missed when I deleted the spam filter.

Michael Brooke on "Comments not working?"

Michael Brooke — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:57:12 +0000

Grovelling apologies to Clydefro - he posted a comment on my blog on 21 March, and I've literally only just spotted it because it got mistakenly classified as spam, presumably as a side-effect of this bug.

Anyway, I've belatedly replied - not that it's much use a week later!

clydefro on "Comments not working?"

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