Today's Issues

As you may have noticed, due to a series of unfortunate, ridiculous events we've had some issues today.

From about 7am (maybe 3?) till about noon everyone just saw the tetris/maintenance page. Obviously that's been fine for a while. Additionally, until about 7pm we were bouncing messages sent to special addresses of the form phlog-username-code@camura.com addresses. That too has been fixed, but all of those posts are lost. If you want to post them, they'll have to be resent. SORRY!

Update: 4/26/09 11pm EST : and then more shit stopped working. Now I think all is actually well, and obviously we didn't miss that last set of post failures.

Post View stats

As of today, we've started tracking Post views. It's an interesting little stat that several people have asked about and, frankly, I kind of was curious too.

We are providing counts of both total views and unique views. Total is exactly that - every single view on a post. Yes, that means continuously reloading a page will cause it to increase. Unique views are being tracked by IP address, so that will be harded to fudge, but also won't count, say, multiple views from different people in a single office. Deal with it.

Currently view counts are only available to a post's owner. That may or may not change later.

So when do we track them? I'm glad you asked...

• Perma link views - this will include the shortened URLs on twitter and the links in RSS feeds if people click them
• Comments popups - anytime someone pops up the comment box on a post
• Original Images - when the "magnifying glass" is clicked. Note that we change