Category: Website Changes

I have a new person working on making some changes to the website and below is 1 idea I had—but I don’t know if it is a good or bad idea.

I could put in a ‘registration’ page so that commenters could set up their registration and then would no longer have a need to continually enter ‘name’ and email addresses—once you are logged in no further actions are required.

To me this seems pretty logical–that it would be preferred to the current method. Currently I think I am the only person to have to log in—but it makes everything easier.

As I understand it I could set it up so that the registration would be ‘username’ and email address. The email address would have to be ‘real’ as the registration would kick out an activation link for the registration.

Additionally the addition of the registration would further reduce spam–which I see, but thus far we have kept it out of the comments as far as I know.

Having a registration would also set up other opportunities–i.e. get notifications of a reply to a comment etc.

What am I missing? Opinions of this idea.

As I suspected a little moola fixed the problem. Buttons are back on.

The ‘like button’ for commenting is off temporarily. Thanks Bur for the heads up.

It looks like someone didn’t pay for the upgrade to keep the button on–so the free version is running (which is limited).

I should get it corrected in the next day or two. In the past Chad would always take care of these things, but for the moment (the last year or so) I am the ‘tech person’.

I have added a new page for I Bonds–it is in the side menu and can be found here.

Randy had mentioned we were at the time a page should be devoted to this popular topic–I think we should have had this months ago.

If folks have posts for this particular topic we can keep them in one spot for others to read.

I just took a moment to clean up the Socker Drawer and Reader Alert comment pages.

As some of you have noted those pages get really slow when the number of comments gets high–they were both in the 1500 area so I deleted 1/2 the comments which should speed up performance.

As you may (or may not) recall some wanted more ‘history’ in the comments–I used to leave a maximum of 500 comments–but as requested I let that grow. Unfortunately you have to sacrifice performance to leave more history.

I probably won’t let these pages grow to 1500 comments in the future–instead opting for a happy medium.

Numerous months ago I quit deleting old comments because some wanted the history and the ability to look way back.

We have reached the point where there are so many comments on some pages i.e. Sandbox that I need to remove some to get some performance improvements. As it is the page has to load all of the comments–i.e. 1700 on the sandbox that it takes too long to load and this disrupts the ability to post new comments.

I will remove a limited number and see if that improves load times for all of us.