Pete's Log: log updates

Entry #452, (Coding, Hacking, & CS stuff, Meta)
(posted when I was 22 years old.)

Vast improvements have been made to log functionality!! Well, sorta. I've finally implemented a "privacy" feature. Each entry has a privacy level associated with it (0 being public) and every user has a privacy level. Then whenever an entry is made, it is only mailed to those users who have privacy level greater than or equal to the level of the entry, and those entries only show up on the webpage for users who are logged in and have a high enough privacy level. I don't know how often I'm going to use this feature, but it's fun to have around... All current subscribers of the log have been given privacy levels greater than 0 (but less than the maximum), so they can consider themselves honored if they like.

the other new feature is comments. registered users can now add comments to log entries if they feel so inclined. why? because i can. currently a web interface is the only way to add comments, but i'm planning on adding a means by which subscribed log users can respond to log mailings and have those responses show up as comments... but i think i'll set it up so that the default action upon a response to an entry is still to send the response to me, only after the user adds some kinda magic line to the response does it add it as a comment instead...

so now there are two new benefits to being a registered user beyond the mailing list. . ...