Guess how many of these guidelines de.lirio.us violates ...?

Created a bug report in rt.cpan.org for Ricardo pointing back here ... where "here" is obviously the link in the title field. Update: The bug is closed now but Ricardo assures us he is keeping an eye on de.lirio.us.

While steve@de.lirio.us is broken ... Steve Mallett's "about" page at fooworks.com includes contact information, in case you need to get a hold of him urgently regarding something at de.lirio.us. I exchanged email with him last week about the problems we are currently seeing ("internal server error" whenever you try to do anything even remotely heavy, such as, oh, say, view your own entries ... duh!) and apparently he is working on solving them. While we are holding our breaths, I have found that the RSS feeds seem to work even when you otherwise can't seem to get anything to work, although of course, they are only updated with some delay, and there's no way to get to a page where you can edit an entry. (I frequently need to go back to an entry I just added ... but I guess I should just learn not to click "save" too early.) If somebody has a pressing need to switch to a different provider, I may be able to help you collect all your entries (except the @private ones of course) -- I still have the simple mirror script which I have used for the "delirioussitedump" (see this tag) although of course that too has been working less than perfectly during the last few weeks. Get in touch or ... oh heck, I'll just make it available again at the previous location. I'll post an announcement in "delirioussitedump blog erablog" when it's there. Update 2006-02-06: click on the "delirioussitedump" tag above to see the announcement.

When you've copied a link, you end up looking at your own bookmarks We speculate that just adding &when_done=go_back to the end of the URL would fix it. ... Nope, didn't work. So I guess it requires a software fix. Update: As a workaround, use tabbed browsing (as if anybody who is serious about bookmarks wasn't already doing that).

The de.lirio.us pages always have a horizontal scroll bar Even if I maximize the browser on my 2048x(mumble) hot shot monitor, the horizontal scroll bar is still there. Scolling right does not reveal any new information. This is with Firefox 1.0.7 on Ubuntu 5.04, for the record. As far as I have been able to tell, this occurs with all de.lirio.us pages except "help"

If like me you routinely deny cookies without thinking about it, you can't log in I already sent Steve email about this but I figured I'd list it here too. To repro, turn off cookies altogether (including removing any cookies you aready have for this site), then attempt to log in. At a minimum, you should get some sort of diagnostic, perhaps suggesting that if you are blocking cookies, you should not. (Maybe check if the referring page is the same you are landing on.) Alternatively, since this is probably most likely to happen to first-time visitors who are deciding to register even though they weren't planning to, perhaps you could diagnose this earlier in the registration process -- try to set a cookie on the Register page, then if it's not set when you have submitted the registration and get the info page about the verification ticket having been sent to you by email, There Be Trouble. Perhaps still more to the point, what's the use of attempting to set a cookie already when you visit the front page? It's not like it's going to be used for anything until you attempt to register, is it? (Just speculating here, though.) Me, I reject any cookie anybody requests unless I see a real reason to accept it. That would be, for example, if I've just clicked on a link to register with the site.

The entry linked here contains a raw apostrophe in the URL I imagine this entry might have been created with an earlier version of the software, but in any event, "be conservative in what you transmit". The link is not displayed correctly (at least in the browser I use now) but if you "view source" you should find that the full URL continues after the first apostrophe.

Any #fragment part disappears from the URI when you copy an entry The link is to an entry which features a #fragment so you can try to repro with that. (Dang, looks like the entry view doesn't have a (copy) link. Welp, now that we have search, search for "CSS: a tabbed interface" http://de.lirio.us/rubric?like=css:+a+tabbed+interface and pick the oldest hit.)

Body field is emptied when you get an error message about invalid characters in the tags To repro, attempt to create a new entry with the text "invalid in the tags field, and something in the body field. Press save; see your precious body text disappear. (If you're lucky, your browser's Back button will work as expected.) The error message "Tags may only contain letters, numbers, dot, colon, and asterisk." is displayed underneath the tags field. See also indirectly http://de.lirio.us/rubric/entry/5417

As the site grows, it will be increasingly useful to be able to focus on languages you understand Ideally, the site would be able to supply a meaningful default guess for every field, and a user preference for which languages to display and/or suggest. See also the Accept-Language HTTP header. Gertjan van Noord's TextCat is a fairly popular Perl-based language identification module. (It's not actually a proper module, but you can get a modularized version e.g. from the SpamAssassin sources.) Samma på svenska. Ja suomeksikin.