It was a long way to go: four years, four seasons and four pretty shaky weeks, but here we are with a fresh installation of version 1.2 of the friendly software Antville on our beloved server Elise.

The mission was change: Updating the code, cleaning up the database, preparing coming features and even adding some new ones right now.

And since change is something many of us fear more than a cup of hot pus some might feel not so comfortable right now.

But don't be too afraid: we are all here to stand with each other coping with possible disadvantages of this necessary and indispensable (if not desired) update.

If anything technical needs to be fixed immediately, I am ready to pick up the pieces and of course I'll do my best to repair what's to be repaired.

Because this is Antville.org, the test installation for the Open Source Software called Antville driven by the community and developed by the Sophistcated Queen Ant's Drones (S.Qu.A.D) which is currently only me but here we go again: one day there might be somebody else joining in or taking over.

Nothing is stable in terms of evolution. And Antville is evolution. I can prove this with a simple equation:

Antville = Evolution

qed.

So, to get to the substantial part of this posting, I compiled a rough list of what Antville 1.2 brings, lacks and temporarily disables here on Antville.org:

1. New features

• Support for multiple topics (aka tags)
• Secured user passwords
• Replaceable images and files
• New Archive structure
• RSS 2.0
• Basic framework for serious internationalisation
• Simplified permission management
• Revised terminology

2. Temporarily disabled features (will be back, soon)

• Referrers and backlinks
• Layout switching and test drive
• Search
• Weblogs.com notification
• Creation of new sites

3. Removed features

• Multiple layouts
• Customization of essential skins

I hope at least some of the listed items above will make you cheer while I can also imagine that a few people will be disappointed by one or the other item.

However, please keep in mind that all these measures were taken deliberately to close the gap on those four idle years of stalled development and make Antville a sustainable project again.

May now begin a time where some of the most requested features are easier to be realized and may this prospect console those of you who are really miserable right now.

For the good and for the better times. And for a quite glorious end of the Antville Summer (or rather: Seasons) Of Code 2007.

Have fun!

Fyi the 'post a new video' and 'add images' links got scrubbed on videos.antville. :(

Dear Mr. Tobi,
Over at infamy (this should be a Link to it) all the links appear to be broken, meaning werden falsch dargestellt. a temporary feature as a bug?
and - as others noted - the "previous stories" link is gone too. we miss her...
but for the rest: keep on rocking!
UPDATE: in the old days, links worked even without the " ". now they are broken without the " " around the URL. So we do have to go through all stories (that's a lot...) and add " " where we've omitted them out of lazyness?
example:
with ": mit anführungszeichen
without ": ohne anführungszeichen.

Dankeschön! Sieht schon mal ganz gut aus.

Bisher sieht es für mich gut aus.
Auf dem handy(N95) bekomme ich allerdings ein Anmeldefenster bei jedem Seitenaufruf und da gehören nicht meine Daten rein.

Das meiste sieht gut aus, allerdings habe ich ein Problem mit dem Anlegen neuer Stories.

In keiner Einstellung public/featured, shared/featured oder wie auch immer logisch wäre, erscheint die story auf der frontpage. Habe ich sie dann irgendwann doch auf der Startseite (all stories -> publish -> closed -> publish... warum auch immer, aber so funzt es) verschwindet sie wieder, sobald ich Kommentare zulasse.

Ansonsten gefällt mir das update gut...!

edit: ach ja, die topics sind acuh weg und man kann kommentare ohne Überschrift nicht mehr anklicken, weil die drei kleinen Punkte weg sind.

First: Thank You! All shiny and new!

Dann aber: Wenn Kommentatoren keine Überschrift eingeben, werden auf der previous comments-list nicht diese drei Pünktchen generiert, die ein Anklicken auf der Seitenleiste ermöglichen.
Und: Das Layout meiner Stories-List ist zerschossen, aber das ist ja eher Kosmetik.
Und: Wie und wo geht das mit den Tags?

... but as of today i am not able to get access to my (private) blog: lentia2000.antville.org
it just displays: "Sorry, you are not allowed to access this part of the site."

any suggestions?

update: everything works fine again

Hinweis: weiß nicht, ob das so vorgesehen ist. Bei concord.antville konnte ich mich nicht einloggen. Erst über die Hauptseite von antville.org.

Danke. Gefällt mir. Die Unterschiede zur alten Version werden sich mir hoffentlich bald erschließen. :-)

1. was bedeutet "Replaceable images and files"?

2. "Revised terminology" - details dazu?

3. "temporarily disabled" - "creation of new sites" - wird es wrklich wieder möglich werden, neue .antville.org seiten zu krëieren?

ansonsten: kudos zu dieser strukturellen erneuerung!

es haben schon 200 leute danke gesagt, aber: danke! :o)

sitelist: ist das nur deaktiviert oder muß es neu gemacht werden?

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