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Jun 19, 2006
Changelog - Jun 18, 2006
by mike (Mike Macgirvin)

Apologies to our regular visitors - I've been tweaking the menus a bit. There's now an 'action' menu for each article which will collect all the various things you can do when presented with an article. This list was growing a bit and getting out of hand - so I put it into a dynamic menu instead of littering the article with even more links and meta information.

This is a bit of an experiment, so let me know what you think. If it turns out to be an unwise choice I'll flip it back.

I'm now storing the original article URL with the article. This could get a bit confusing, so for now I'll call it another experimental feature as well. You see, some folks are viewing this page from 'macgirvin.com', some from 'baddcafe.com', and some from 'sonicamusica.com' - and a whole bunch of others. Shortly I'll be adding an article action which will allow you to view an article in its original context. That is, if somebody writes a guitar article on sonicamusica.com - but you're viewing the page from floozee.com, you'll be able to link to and view the page on the original site and see the environment in which the article was created.  You would probably call this an advanced feature, and I don't expect it to get a lot of use. It could turn out useful someday if any individual website starts getting an abnormal increase in usage. This way I can spin it off on its own without disrupting any other emerging communities.

It will also be possible to link to and share with entirely different communities. I'll leave that for another day. 

I already mentioned the censor and tolerance features in the comments to the last changelog. 

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