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Good day.
Some nerd news for y'all:

Sceneless has been experiencing some weird outages, usually early in the AM hours, when most people are on the Internet and reading when they should be working instead.

Due to these frequent and unfortunate outages, I've abandoned our former hosting company and moved the site to a different server.

If any comments or posts have been lost as a result of the move, I do apologize, as you will have to post them again.

Cheers

Adam

I've updated the version of drupal from 4.6.9 to 4.7.3. This means some changes in the interface for authors.

I had to turn off the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor as default until I can figure out what is causing it to be wonky. If you still want to use it, you can. Make sure you hit "enable rich text" below any text box (works in comments, too).

You'll also notice that in your "my account" page, if you go to the "edit" tab, you can upload a picture of yourself. This picture will show up on your account page and every time you make a comment. Onward to the 21st century!

Also, if you haven't already noticed... I've changed the default look of the site. I wanted to push things forward a notch.

If you liked the old look, don't worry! It's still available. All you have to do is create yourself an account over there on the left, log in, go to "my account" on the left, and click the "edit" tab on your account page. Scroll to the bottom, and you should be able to select the "friendselectric" theme, which was the old default look of the site.

2:00pm

Reminding self to set up automatic backups of this site from now on. 

1:30pm

Up to 45 pieces of content. Much better than zero. I'm going to stop for a little while, as this may be as much content that I can recover. There are new categories in the Articles section for News and Interviews, and I'm starting to follow the convention that each article gets a mention of the article type in the header (eg. [Albums]). It makes things much more clear for our RSS users. I've disabled the WYSIWYG editor from loading on default, but you can still use it if you hit "enable rich text" below any text box. It was messing up YouTube stuff : )

1:00pm

I've saved 20 articles (albums, singles, concerts, interviews) and probably just as many blog entries so far and I'm still going. Hooray for google cache!

12:00pm

Note: Until some folks sign back up (Mr. Notte, Mr. Testa, I'm lookin' at you : ) ), some articles are going to reappear with their original titles, but with incorrect authors. Once they sign back up, I'll modify the records to hold the right author name. Blog entries and older content are going to be the most difficult to reconstruct, so patience is requested - and I may not get them all.
 

11:15am

Got clean URLs working!
Looks like the old content I can pull out of my RSS aggregator is only the first half of many of the articles. Anything that was beyond the "read more" link is not there. However, we are fortunate that a number of articles we wrote, we forced the read more link away by using a <!--break-->. Some album reviews coming back now. Will move on to other content in a bit.

10:30am

Got the WYSIWYG editor for content creation working. I found, much to my surprise, that a great deal of the content of this site I have cached in my RSS reader. If I can copy some of it out and modify the node number on the post, a decent amount of the old material may resurface before your very eyes. Before I can start working on getting any new material on the site, I have to get the some bugs with user friendly stuff worked out (links bar at top, title graphic, clean URLs,etc). I'll keep this space posted as things develop.

[Ed. Fixed the mail server. You should actually get the notification email now. - Adam ]

The server that sceneless was hosted on has been destroyed, courtesy of the fine folks at unixshell. If you want to yell at someone about it, you can email me at copelanda[at]gmail.com - because I didn't keep a good persistent backup of the site. For the time being, it looks like I'm not going to be able to recover any of the data and we'll have to start over from scratch.

This means I'm going to have to go through all the configuration one by one again, and everyone is going to have to re-register their usernames. I'll keep this spot filled with information once I have anything, but if you did have a username here at sceneless, please take the time now to register again and post a comment here.

AUTHORS and RIGHTEOUS users please let me know that you are back so I can restore your priviledges.