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For patron accounts, I've added one new feature: linkbacks. Any time a Tabulas user posts an entry that links to a particular entry of yours, you'll see it appear in the comment view of a page. This will help you discover who's talking about your entries on Tabulas, and it is a way to encourage you to link to other's posts as well!

I've also started processing Tabulas entries for the "Related" entries feature - for those of you who don't know, this is a magical feature which will try to find "related" entries that you've written. Sometimes it's accurate, sometimes it's not. But it's fun to see what entries will show up :)

Related entries are processed nightly, so you may have to wait a bit to get related entries. All patron account should have had their entries processed, though.

One of the bigger complaints I've gotten about the control panel redesign is the lack of accurate hit logging. To that end, I've added back one of the more popular features for patron accounts: viewing your recent visitor traffic logs.

Because of server limitations, you can only view your last 72 hours worth of data, but the data it provides should give you a better idea of where your traffic is coming from.

Check it out in your control panel.

Hey everybody,

I've put the finishing touches on an update to the gallery in your control panel - I always felt the new gallery was more confusing than the old one.

This new one should be a lot simpler to use - and it will allow you to manage your images more efficiently (without having to edit each image individually!)

Please let me know if there are any problems.

I hope all of you are having a fantastic holidays.

- Roy

Hey everybody,

Most of you know that Tabulas is a fun project that I work on in my spare time - it is not intended to make any money. Lately, the costs have been starting to mount on the bandwith side.

When looking into what's causing the high costs, most of the problems come from file downloads - they account for about 3/5 of the total bandwidth costs.

To combat this, I'm changing the way file downloads are handled. Any files that are greater than 512K can be downloaded in a 24 hour period by as many downloads that fill a 80 megabyte quota (files under 512K can be downloaded an unlimited time per day). If your file is 1 megabyte, then it can be downloaded 80 times in a 24 hour period. If it's 5 megabytes, it's 16 times. (I will change this value for patron accounts soon). After that, visitors will be told that the bandwidth usage is exceeded. 

However, users who are registered Tabulas users do not have this check implemented - that means if you are logged into Tabulas, these limits do not apply.

I know this sucks, but I need to keep costs under control :)

I've also made code changes to way images are being served. If you have any problems viewing images or files, please let me know!