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May 26, 2008

Version 6.1.1.

We've put out a new patch release; as always, details in the changelog.

May 08, 2008

Q: Is every comment in the forum emailed out?

At present, the contents of comments or other page changes are not mailed out; instead the email includes a link back to the page. The mechanism for sending works like this... people can add their email addresses to a specific page (or forum as a whole) along with a time (e.g. "notify me no more than once every four hours, once a day or whatever"). Then whenever the page changes -- any change -- the notification is sent out (respecting the "once per X" limits).

Of course, for on-demand updates, the page and forum RSS feeds are your best bet.

May 06, 2008

Tip: Hiding the 'Create New Group' button.

The site home page (which lists all groups on the server) contains a form with a 'Create New Group' button in it. The way most sites are set up, pressing the button will ask for the 'create group' or 'site administrator' passwords. (There is of course an 'anyone can create groups' setting in Site Admin to bypass this).

If you really do want to hide the button (from everybody, including admins), you can do so via a little HTML and Javascript trick. In Site Admin, go into 'Messages', and then at the end of your 'Home page message', add this:


<script>document.forms[0].style.display = 'none';</script>

If you later want to create a new group, you could just remove the line, create the group, and put it back.