Important Technical Changes at TPMCafe and Bug Fixes Round 2
Today I'd like to discuss a couple changes that will both fix the last of the myTPM transition bugs, and add a whole new level of functionality to TPMCafe.
Today we are installing two new Movable Type plugins lovingly hand built for us that will make it much easier for content to flow back and forth from main blogs such as the TPMCafe home page and the main reader post page to individual reader and contributor blogs. The best result of the change is the reinstatement of a full master reader blog archive (which is being deployed right now). But, just as the plugin will pull posts from all reader blogs into a master blog, we'll also be using it to spin off individual blogs for Cafe contributors by pulling their posts from TPMCafe into their own personal blogs. So if you'd like to follow M.J. Rosenberg or Theda Skocpol, you'll now see their blogs populated with their latest posts.
More long term, I'm pretty excited about the possibilities of moving content around Cafe by pushing content up to the main blogs and back down to individual blogs, and I look forward to using this technology to further integrate reader-submitted content with contributor and edited content at TPMCafe.
We do have to go through and manually create all of these "contributor blogs," so you'll see more and more of them pop up soon. For now, only Reed Hundt's is fully functional
Moreover, I have been reading your comments and bug reports on threads on this and other blogs, and we are looking into the problems. At this point, if you're still having trouble with the YOUR BLOG link, try clearing your cache, deleting your cookies and restarting your browser. Thanks!
Late Update: Another new feature today-- I have added a "Report Abuse" button to every comment. If you click that, we'll get alerted that someone believes the comment violates our terms of use. It may take a while for the button to propagate throughout the blogs, so don't be alarmed if you don't see it on every post yet.
Today we are installing two new Movable Type plugins lovingly hand built for us that will make it much easier for content to flow back and forth from main blogs such as the TPMCafe home page and the main reader post page to individual reader and contributor blogs. The best result of the change is the reinstatement of a full master reader blog archive (which is being deployed right now). But, just as the plugin will pull posts from all reader blogs into a master blog, we'll also be using it to spin off individual blogs for Cafe contributors by pulling their posts from TPMCafe into their own personal blogs. So if you'd like to follow M.J. Rosenberg or Theda Skocpol, you'll now see their blogs populated with their latest posts.
More long term, I'm pretty excited about the possibilities of moving content around Cafe by pushing content up to the main blogs and back down to individual blogs, and I look forward to using this technology to further integrate reader-submitted content with contributor and edited content at TPMCafe.
We do have to go through and manually create all of these "contributor blogs," so you'll see more and more of them pop up soon. For now, only Reed Hundt's is fully functional
Moreover, I have been reading your comments and bug reports on threads on this and other blogs, and we are looking into the problems. At this point, if you're still having trouble with the YOUR BLOG link, try clearing your cache, deleting your cookies and restarting your browser. Thanks!
Late Update: Another new feature today-- I have added a "Report Abuse" button to every comment. If you click that, we'll get alerted that someone believes the comment violates our terms of use. It may take a while for the button to propagate throughout the blogs, so don't be alarmed if you don't see it on every post yet.
