Now that YACCS (my comment providers of over five years' standing, who stopped accepting new subscriptions nearly five years ago) have gone into winding-down "zero support" mode, the cracks are starting to show, and there ain't nothing I can do about them. Except for installing a new comments system, of course. It's something which I
may do while we're off on holiday - but frankly, I can think of many more worthwhile leisure activities, so it's going onto the Things To Do On A Rainy Day list.
In the meantime, here are a couple of useful tips for those of you who might be getting exasperated with the existing regime.
1. The spam filters don't mind wordy waffle.If your comment is falling foul of the YACCS spam filter, then try making it longer, wordier, wafflier and generally more discursive. If in doubt, chuck in a few extra adverbs. (Come on: this
is Troubled Diva. We're not exactly a home to linguistic economy.)
2. Feel free to blog-pimp.As you'll probably have noticed, the "homepage" links have been borked for a few weeks, meaning that anyone trying to access your blog via your comment will be thwarted. This hardly seems fair. So please feel free to paste the URL of your blog at the end of your actual comment. There's no need to wrap it up in HTML; YACCS will sort that all out for you. The only possible danger is that the spam filter might smell a rat, but we'll have to play that one by ear.
A few days ago, I received my 20,000th comment since installing YACCS in the early summer of 2002. A quick check reveals that the historic comment in question was left by local lady Tina of
Your mind and we, on one of the cushion threads; indeed, Tina embedded her own link, to
a rather dramatic cushion suggestion from the John Lewis site. (Interesting, but perhaps a tad
ornate for our butch tastes.)
Congratulations, Tina!
No, you can't have
a mug.
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