We now have a new place for your suggestions and bug reports!

http://feedback.inconversation.org makes it easier to add your ideas and report any problems you find.

Plus, two bugs have been fixed. The bug that caused images larger than the post content to hang outside of the post has now been fixed. The second bug fixed was stopping the RSS feed from being updated.

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Long overdue, I’ve fixed some old (and newly discovered) bugs on the site:

• Fixed the weird characters displaying in posts and titles. Seems something had changed on our hosts’ end causing the wrong character encoding to be set.
• Fixed a bug where all new feeds would have the “show comment link” option turned off, and unable to be turned back on.
• Fixed the bug which meant tag replacement options wouldn’t be saved properly.

The following features have been added/changed:

• The aggregator is now more flexible in the way that videos can be embedded in posts. As a result, more videos in posts will now display.
• When adding a feed manually, the system now checks straight away whether or not it can find information at the given URL, and suggests a URL to the user if they’ve given the wrong feed address (if it can find something to suggest).
• The individual author page now displays a simple list of posts, rather than grouping by feed. It turns out that this works better for authors with more than 1 or 2 feeds.
• Chang...

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Part of developing any good website involves taking the time to revise what’s been built in the past. There are many new features I’d like to add to inConversation, some of them requiring quite a lot of time to develop.

I’ve recently had the chance to review the code behind the site, and, having recently picked up a few new tricks, ended up re-writing much of the code. The good news is:

• The new code is cleaner and easier to maintain.
• It’ll be easier to add new features in the future.
• The site runs a little faster.
• Many bugs were fixed.

You”ll also notice an updated design. While the old design was functional, I think you’ll agree that the current design is a little more pleasing to the eye. Part of the new design features the account/settings section split into sections. This has been done so that as more options are added (some nice surprises coming here soon!), it’ll be easier to find your way around.

The new design could use a few tweaks, but any comments you have on the new design, and ideas for impr...

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Just to give you an idea of the things that are coming up in the near-future here on inConversation:

• A “getting started” page, to complement the wiki. This will be linked to in an easy to spot place near the top of the site (maybe instead of the “find out more” link that’s currently there).
• Finish that authors page! It has been “being upgraded” for a little too long now!
• An email newsletter (maybe monthly) with tips for getting the most out of the site, etc.

Don’t forget that you can suggest your own ideas on the wiki!

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A new feature has been introduced whereby you can have a feed from a different domain than that of your website. For example, you can have your site listed as www.example.org, and your feed coming from a service such as Feedburner.  (This was technically possible before with feed redirection enabled on your site, but practically speaking was problematic).

The updated feed settings page now allows you to specify these URLs separately.

This also means links to your site from inConversation can point directly to your blog when your blog is in a sub-directory of your site, for example, www.inconversation.org/blog/ – as opposed to www.inconversation.org/.

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