Hi all,

 I managed to get the server which hosts this site (and some others) swapped out for one with more ram (256k-->1gb, for the same price!), so as soon as I have some time I'm going to be moving the website over to the new server (and closing down the old one)... I hope more memory will mean better caching, and thus more performance (for the website, but also for the mail etc I do with it), and also the possibility to have more processes running (eg more slaves to serve pages etc)...

Downtime should be limited (don't know when yet) to the time needede for copying the necessary files and changing the dns record so it points to the new server (this means the url for the site will not change)....

After that I'll start thinking about upgrading the software to drupal 6, which is also supposed to speed things up, and solve some problems like with the new post notification....

Hey all,

I noticed secondseeker.com, a no-sleeze SL parcel "review" site, visited us and put up a nice article about us!

More in our article section, or at Secondseeker.com !!!

Hi all,

the site has been offline for a while so I could upgrade the platform we use (called Drupal) to drupal 5.2. This was necessary because of some bugfixes and security patches. A quick test seems to show all is well after the upgrade, but should you find any (new) problems, please let me know!!

I will probably have to take the site offline a few times in the near future, to upgrade some modules (not part of the drupal core, but provide extra functionality).

You should now also no longer receive an update notification by email when somebody spams the site. This used to trigger an email, but when clicking the link you usually didn't see anything because the spamfilter had filtered out that message.
This does however may mean that you will get update notifications later then you used to.

For the people interested, here's why:

old behaviour:  read more »

Lately, there appears to be some trouble in adding content (articles or events). I'm not entirely sure what causes it, but the symptoms seem to be that you recieve a php error message, and after that your article has been marked as spam by the spamfilter. Luckily your article hasn't disappeared after that, so it just needs some manual approvement (because it is falsely marked as spam). I'm not sure whether the problem is in the drupal part, or in the akismet (spamcheck) part.  read more »

I tried to come up with a logo for the site, and after some fiddling around in the gimp i came up with this....

Please tell me your toughts about it (add a comment, or start a forum thread), do you like it, or not, why (not)..... etc

I also attached some bigger/higher quality versions, and there's a version at the point where you teleport in on the babylonia island!

UPDATE:

Google once again struck down on our site, and found a backdoor to clicking the arrows on our tasklist . This again causes many tasks to be seen as updated by the site. I adapted the robots.txt again, it should now no loinger happen. I can only wait untill the next crawl to verify this...
On the good side: we now have most of our pages in google: Click here to see our pages on google.  read more »

Some new functionality to the website:  read more »

Slowly, the website is taking form, but lots still has to be done.

I could use some help with that:

-I'm currently looking for some graphically/webdesign talented people, to help form the look of this new website, which is based upon the powerfull and customisable drupal system... All help and ideas welcome!! I'm especially looking for a logo for the site. If you have any ideas or designs, feel free to contribute!

What's here already:
-possibility to sign up
-A basic forum, to discuss about SL babylon, this site, sl and life in general. Every registered user can post topics, any user can post reply's.
-The possibility to subscribe to news, forum topics, etc. This way, you will be notified when something is updated. Click the subscribe links to subscribe!
-A news posting system (like this message), so certain people can post updates, notifications etc about babylon, the website....
-A freetagging system: creators will be able to tag their content, and these tags will be shown in a tag cloud. This gives a quick overview of what content is here.
-RSS feeds: most pages have an orange rss icon... They allow you tu use RSS to track changes to one message, a category of messages, forums etc using your favorite rss reader.
- every subscribed user can contribute to our article database (articles about environment, healthcare, second life, ... These articles can then be discussed on this site or during the SL chat sessions
-some blocks with quick information about changes, so you can easily see what content is on the site.
-an editor, so you can more easily markup new stuff
-An event calendar, where every user will be able to post babylonian related events.  read more »