If you’re registering a blog for the first time, the signup page has a new hurdle:
This will stop automated spammers from registering at thripp.com. The verification images are provided by the reCAPTCHA project, and are words from books that optical character recognition has failed on. Much more interesting than ugly CAPTCHAs with words that make no sense. I implemented it with the WP-reCAPTCHA plugin.
There’s no need for CAPTCHAs when commenting because every blog has Akismet for comment …
The thing called your dashboard is the main page of the administrative section. When you’re logged in with your thripp.com account, you can click “Site Admin” in the sidebar to get to it (or “Dashboard” in the header, if you’re browsing your blog). Starting today, if you go there and scroll down, you’ll see the latest posts on this development blog, and my latest articles on personal development. See all the interesting developments that are going on?
Before, they defaults were the stock Wordpress feeds, which are of little use …
Check out the revamped latest posts page. It’s using the same code that powers the links in the sidebar, but expanded. Unlike with the old code which wasn’t too good, the page now lists everything in reverse chronological order. I’ve configured it to display the most recent 10,000 posts, and it’s still lightning fast, and only 54KB. There are only 1315 posts on thripp.com (this excludes pages and Hello world! posts), but the list will keep up as that increases, though it may stay 24 hours out of date due to the HTML caching on thripp.com. If you’re logged …
This is the one-month anniversary for thripp.com. I created it on 2008 May 24 to be a different kind of place built on connections and freedom, and the list of members is nearing 100. And, unlike other social networks, I haven’t banned anyone! Keep up the great work.
I’ve worked through (and you’ve put up with) plenty of problems, but I’ve gotten the site to a good and stable state, especially since I switched hosts and added caching (keeps things fast). Rather than being in a position where growth will kill the site, I’m ready for …
Hello everyone. I updated the stylesheet so it caps the width of the text at 830 pixels. I was under the belief before that I should use as much as the screen as possible, but after noticing how hard it is to follow a line on a big monitor (anything bigger than 1024×768), I’ve changed my mind. If you’re viewing in a wider window than that, the lines get no longer and just stay centered on the page with white on the sides.
The sidebar is anchored to the top-right of the page no matter what, but if you have a …
thripp.com has been down for a day, but it’s back now. My apologies to everyone who couldn’t get here, especially my members. My web host has been giving my a lot of trouble, but I blogged about it at Brilliant Photography (my site on the thripp.com network). Here’s a copy of that post:
Hi everyone. The website’s been down for the last 18 hours, since 7:30 A.M. (EDT) this morning, but I’m back now. I discovered it when I awoke at 2 P.M. (I’m happily unemployed), and immediately began trouble-shooting. It wasn’t on my end at all; it
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You can now search across all of thripp.com at thripp.com/search. There’s a search box (mandatory) in every sidebar, above the community forum link. This is all by Google, but they’ve done a great job indexing the network. I even have my own ads on search pages thanks to Google AdSense for Search. Enjoy! 
I wrote this two days ago, but didn’t expect to get rolling so quickly:
People have been signing up for thripp.com despite my lack of advertising. I’ll work on the layout and features in July. I can’t get virtual subdomains like I want without upgrading to a virtual private server, which I won’t yet pay for, so you just get a name like thripp.com/foobar instead of foobar.thripp.com (which I know you’d prefer). Sorry for that. If you start blogging for some reason, I added plugins you can activate to multicast to Facebook, LiveJournal, Twitter, and Xanga, like I do
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