Category: Newsgroup
Admin Screenshots
Here are some screenshots of the admin area of the site.
Admin Home Page
The home page lists the same posts as the home page of the site. The pencil icon will take you to an edit post page, the lock icon with hold or publish the selected post (using a gifStream, no page refresh) and the delete icon will ask you if you're sure that's really what you want to do :). Under each post, you can see all the related comments. The block icon next to the IP allows you to ban that particular IP. The edit, hold/publish and delete icons work the same.
Posts
This is the post listing. You can perform a lot of the same actions as the home page, including hold and publishing posts directly from this page. Clicking the pencil icon takes you to the edit post page.
Edit Post
This page is pretty simply. Edit a post, hold/publish it, and view all of the comments. You can hold and publish comments and block/unblock IPs for comments from this page as well (gotta love that gifStream).
The comments and edit comments pages are essentially the same as the posts and edit posts pages. I have most of the user admin stuff done, and the banned IPs section is complete. Still working on options and RSS Config and such.
And peace reigned once more...
Thank the all-mighty newsgroup gods that school has finally started again. The Macromedia Newsgroups become a mad house every summer as kids are out of school and loitering in the newsgroups causing mischeif. It happens every summer, and it seems only the regulars think it will ever end. Each summer means more regulars though, so hopefully it will get to a point where the people who know what's going on will outnumber the summer hooligans.
There's always hope right?
New product delivery methods
I just put together a new nifty little mini-app for the DWfaq Store. Customers can now choose to email the products to themselves instead of downloading. If you're like me, I keep my email around for ages, so it would be nice to have my downloaded products categorized in there like everything else :). My email inbox is more organized than my house. Kinda scary.