Stills

I've been testing the site feed (available on the Stills homepage) and it seems to be working fine. Technically it is an Atom feed, but my basic RSS newsreader takes the data OK. Anyway, this seems to be a good way of checking out whether there are new postings without having to return to the site.

I've also been experimenting with the functionality to be notified by email if there are new comments. This is now working and if you want to receive these notices please let me know. Unfortunately they are all or nothing. I can't see a way of restricting the notices to your own entries. If you would like your name added to the list to get the notices then just reply here, or if you want me to use an email address different to the one I already have for you then please send me an email.

Blogger has been pretty unreliable over the last week or so. The way that I've set the server up we should still be able to see our site even if blogger is not working, but we do need blogger to be working to be able to post and comment. Planned outages are announced on:

http://status.blogger.com/

There are 8 million blogs hosted by blogger so I feel that they will fix things. I use blogger for a variety of things so I'm keeping an eye on the way things develop at the moment. They are getting a lot of bad press out there in blogland.

UPDATE - a few hours later......blogger seems to have overwritten the front page with a blank one. All the other pages are still there, but you can only find them if you know their individual addresses. Hmm. I'm hoping that a forced republish as I upload this will sort it out. Rex also seems to have lost a comment. I'm not sure if this was related. Blogger was reliable until last week!