After having the same emoticons for ages, we have changed them.

Firstly, I would like to thank Matsi for creating the old ones, which, although they were nice, were not that easy to work with due to the size.

Secondly, thanks to SEF who created the new ones

There are only 10 emoticons available at the moment, but when we have time, more will probably be added.

- Ciber

The RSS feeds have now been recoded and are a lot nicer, etc. In recoding the RSS feeds, I also added in Atom 0.3 support, and made the feeds more accessable (for those people using Firefox, there is a nice RSS thing at the bottom of all the pages, which shows the Atom and RSS feeds. There are also Atom and RSS links in the menu things for the blogs, underneath the blog admin, etc.

You may notice that the address for the RSS feeds has changed from http://blog.min-data.co.uk/rss/ to http://blog.min-data.co.uk/feed/ . If possible, please update your rss aggregators, but it isn't vital as the old address now shows the new content.

There are some nice new features in the new RSS feeds:
- User - Shows the blogs for a specific user
- t=ATOM/RSS-2.0 - Change the type of feed (Atom or RSS)
- n=20 - Change the number of blog entries it shows

Eg:
http://blog.min-data.co.uk/feed/?Min-Data&t=ATOM&n=40

Hope you find these features useful

- Ciber

Very minor feature just added. You can now "lock" commenting on a blog entry, which stops people from commenting on it any further. No real need for this at this stage, but if anyone does want to use it, please feel free.

To lock or unlock a blog entry, all you need to do is click the link between "Edit" and "Delete". How hard can it be?

I plan to do something like add an option on the add blog page to make it automatically lock a blog entry, but that would be boring to code so I dont want to just now


Also added is the ability to close polls, which does the same thing as locking blog entries. (Stops anyone else from voting). They can be closed or opened from the Poll page in the Preferences section.

There was a small bug with subscriptions, which meant that it didnt work with customisable blogs if you clicked the "Subscribe" link. This issue has now been resolved, and we appologise for any inconvenience caused.