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September 4, 2007

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MacUser growing pains (now with more Kirk Cameron)

Posted Sep. 4, ’07, 9:07 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | MacUser

Kirk CameronYou may have noticed a few minor changes around the blog in the last few days, but it’s nothing to be afraid of. We haven’t been taken over by some strange extraterrestrial entity bent on the enslavement of humankind, of anything like that. Of course, if we were, we wouldn’t exactly tell you, would we? Sleep well, fleshlings.

On the other hand, it might just be that we’ve bumped up our version of Movable Type to the spiffy new version 4.0. As always, with changes come glitches, and we’ve certainly been experiencing a few of those, primarily with the comment system. Previously, we’d relied on TypeKey authentication to prevent the insidious intrusions of spam bots bent on the enslave—whoops, someone must have turned on that new AutoJoke feature. Crap. Anyway, we now have our own built-in registration system, so if you register for that (you’ll find a link to the totally harmless process on any individual post page), you’re assured of having your opinion heard by all. We’ve left anonymous commenting on while we work out some of the kinks, but we may go to a mandatory registration system in the future; we’ll let you know if we do.

Also, we’ve been having some problems with our tags, so you’ll notice that those have disappeared for the time being. Fret not; they’ll be back soon enough. We’re also playing around with some more of MT4.0’s nifty new features, so don’t be surprised if the site fluxes a bit in the next week or so. It’s all part of the show, folks.

Update: Due to problems with our configuration, we’re axing the built-in registration. Which means, we’ll be sticking with the same combination of TypeKey and anonymous commenting that you know and loathe. Er, love. Right.


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