PROBLEM
I’m being a little bit too 2.0 right now.
A hallmark of 2.0-ness is admitting to users when you stuff up. I stuffed up.
I was trying to discreetly change my identity on lint from “Librarian Kathryn” and “Sirexkat” to “Kathryn Greenhill” – with no comment or attention. (Here’s why if you’re interested). When I tried to merge the two, I zapped Librarian Kathryn and her posts out of existence. That included the comments people made as well.
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SOLUTION
What to do, what to do? I asked another couple of thali members whether they had lint displaying in their browsers. CW very nicely emailed me a couple of posts she cut and pasted.
But then I remembered …RSS feeds! I could retrieve the posts from bloglines. I even have a feed on the comments, so they were there too. I restored a few of my favourite posts, but not the others..sorry to any lint historians out there.
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I’ve restored the comments best I can, but big, big apologies if you had commented and you got zapped in the rays that also pulverised Librarian Kathryn. Please let me know if you’d like me to change anything.
BRIGHT SHINY THINGS
Maybe I can distract you with a bright shiny thing??? Look, over on the right hand sidebar. Someone (I think it was Peta) has put a lovely search box there for us all to use!
Feed
October 30, 2006 at 17:59
OK I admit it, it was me who put the search box there – if your search gets no results you’ll just get a blank page. I think we need a plugin to get that bit working. But with the number of posts steadily growing it’s handy to go hunting for older posts.
Too bad you haven’t replaced all your lost posts – you would have hit the lead in the contributor stats
October 30, 2006 at 20:06
It happens to us all in some way – I recently managed to wipe out the graphics from our banner from our webpages. Luckily, like you, I was able to get most back and then fudged the rest.
October 30, 2006 at 20:55
Phew, I’m glad you didn’t lose all the comments as well! I’d forgotten about the comments feed, despite the fact that I’ve subscribed to those too…
October 30, 2006 at 20:56
Oh, and thanks HEAPS for the search box, Peta! Excellent work!
October 31, 2006 at 13:33
Ahhh.. it was you Peta. Looks really good and increases our 2.0 rating by +3.
Fudging is a 2.0 skill ?
Enough of 2.0!