The point of this exercise is two-fold: to start supporting the new image size, "medium-large" for entries. The old thumbnails are just too tiny, and with most people having broadband access, it makes no sense to use the small image sizes. Secondly, going through the templating execises is giving me an idea of how to add support for "shared" templates, so it's easier for the Tabulas community to add and share custom templates.

In anticipation of the new front-end gallery UI, I've removed the "# of images per row" option from the back-end (Yay for code clean-up!).

I also cleaned up the user directories today; there is more information about the user (entries / images / friend counts); I've also made the user directory a default view for the "Community" tab. The user directory will become more of a focal point - I want to consolidate the "friends" view into the user directory view at some point.

The control panel also got a refresh as I updated the top-nav elements - I remade those images and tightened up the space of the tabs.

What am I thinking for the future? A couple of things:

• Template sharing - allow Tabulas users to more easily share templates
• New gallery front-end - More Flickr-like in its display of albums/images
• Consolidation of friends + user directory view
• Communities - I still haven't hashed out how these will work or look, but it's the next "big" thing I want to tackle for Tabulas. 

P.S. - Thanks to Ree for the awesome usericon!

• Been getting hit with a lot of spam lately - added a new table "recentcomments", which stores a snapshot of recent comments - this'll help block spammers who are using the same IP addresses who've bypassed the TypePad spam filter and are hitting multiple sites. An initial few will get through, but the filter should catch them after that. I'll have to see how it works in practice. 
  • Added a new administrative CP function - ban spam IP address. Instead of hardcoding the spam IPs into the code, it's now stored in database. Every night, it's written to a PHP file so the array can be read quicker.
    
  • When a spammer's IP is detected, the hit log archives are also cleaned up.
    
• Category deletions are a bit cleaner now in the way they move entries. 
• Usericon deletions are cleaner - they will explicitly unassign iconid values on deletion.
  
• Default usericions are now stored as a part of the user table as well as in the usericon table - this optimizes a bunch of queries.
  
• Usernames can now be 32 characters long (fixes issues where the un-maxlengthed "change username" screen caused usernames to seem "lost", when they were simply truncated.
  
• Updated the UI of the "Content pages" in the control panel to include the privacy level
• Comments from guests which do not contain URLs are not linked.
  
• Default gravatar image has been replaced with a blank image (looks less obnoxious).
  
• Updated control panel's secondary nav to no longer use images, but text. (For future localization, as well as cutting out ~25K of CSS and ~40K of images)
• Moved the "Gallery" tab under "Extras". (Part of a future plan to bring more attention to the friends network, rather than the content)
• Added interests - searchable keywords to help bring users together.
  
• Added user directory - find users by gender, location, interests, and activity. The "friends" view will be collapsed into this view in the near future (default view of directory is already your friends' activities).
  
• Adding more places in code which updates the user's "last updated" status.
  
• Added "Delete Entry" into both under "Entry Tools" when viewing a single entry, as well as when you're editing a single entry.
  

The UI for the friends is a bit wonky (remember to scroll down to save your changes) - I'll clean that up shortly.

• Added a new page to all Tabulas accounts: "Popular entries" These are the 15 most commented-on journal entries for any given user. It's accessible from /journal/popular/
• Added support for UEB - with the FF plugin, you'll get an icon on any post you're reading that you can edit
• Added prev/next support for any page with entry pagination, as well as the monthly archive views (useful with the link widget for quickly navigating entries)
  

• There are now 3 sub-pages to the /content/ url on each page: files, mixtape, and pages (You can see the links on the headers when you visit your /contents/ link
  
• Radio will now be called "mixtape" - files that are images no longer show up in the mixtape area, but they show a preview link, which embeds a flash player as well as a download link

FOAF:

• Added back basic preliminary FOAF files - will need to expand on these later
  

Misc:

• Fixed a comment count bug
• Fixed null reference exception when trying to load up link tags
• Added metadata to crosspost bodies (mood, listening/reading/watching)
• Fixed logout localization bug (extra message was being output)
• All successful POST operations are immediately followed by a GET to prevent the "Reload" message when going back in the control panel
• Added the Tabulas user-agent to all outgoing Plug calls
• Added "Remove link" and "Add horizontal ruler" to editor
• Messaging is now the default action under "Network" tab
  
• Show a message whether JS is enabled/disabled for templates
• When using new beta control panel, fix "Add ___ as friend" link
• Added "Delete account" link under Settings tab
• Fix private content pages output in control panel
• Fix outputting of tables in control panel, since global styles and TinyMCE were not playing nicely
• Fix null ref in Comments when viewing comments in an entry where only a guest has posted
• Escape quotes in the "add existing links" to editor
• Generating URLs now allowed periods (mostly useful for the file permalinks)
• Use tiling buttons in TinyMCE for speed
  

Also fixed a bug where deleting messages in your inbox wasn't working correctly.

• Any MP3 files you upload to your Tabulas will now be playable through a flash interface (similar to the old radio)
• Each user's site generates a XSPF (XML-based sharable playlist) at /content/playlist/ (if you had radio tracks, they are included in there)
• This XSPF file is used to load up music on your /content/ and /content/files/ pages - each file can be listened to individually (little play button)
  
• TODO: Move over all radio files into the files section of each user
• TODO: Add a "Insert media file" in the new editor which will automatically embed the player

XML-RPC changes:

• I'm now sniffing user agent information so I can return XML data in a specific way for each client - LiveWriter's category support should work much better now
• When creating an entry using the API, will now use your default "Allow comments" setting to determine whether to allow comments on posted entry or not
• Custom timestamps sent in via API are respected
• Fixed categories not being saved correctly on edits
  
• Qumana:
  
  • Fixed error with adding new post (required casting the returned entryid as a string instead of an int)
  • Fixed categories
    

Bug fixes:

• In new control panel, reversed "Show categories" and "Show communities" options (Thanks, vulpix!)