I'm in Lansing today, and so we're going to be upgrading our server OSes and installing a new router. This might mean some downtime, but hopefully not more than a few minutes at a time.

update: I guess more than a few minutes of downtime. Apologies all around.

--nate

Another update (The Day After): Our problems related to the upgrade seem to be two: If you're having trouble with the catbox, chatterlight, or scratch pads, you may want to turn off Everything2 Ajax in the Javascript Repository until we fix it. If you're using Writeup Bonus and are missing a level or two, sit tight... we haven't figured out that one yet. It may take another day. Also, we're running off two back-end servers right now and only one of them has a problem. You may see things working fine on one pageload and not working on the next.

-ap (1545 EDT/1945 UTC)

update: This seems like its fixed now, lmk if there are other issues. --n

Footprints has a band but no name. You can help him out and win fabulous prizes.

I got off my duff this afternoon and finally got around to deploying the Zen Theme (with Kernel Blue) for unauthenticated users, as well as new users on the site. This is the first bell-toll for the long-lived e2 jukka theme which will no longer be supported.

As always, shoot any complaints via email to e2webmaster at everything2 dot com.

--nate

Tag team writing. Well, sort of...

e2collaborators is a new writing project led by artman2003. There's an ongoing story, a chapter of which is published each Friday. This is the first instalment. However, they need you, and your ideas, and your writing skills, to keep it going.

Let artman2003 know if you'd like to lend them your words.

There's a new feature on E2. Now you can view the votes and reputation for any writeup you have voted on (as well as your own writeups) in a nice bar graph. The graph shows the monthly change in votes and rep since it was posted.

You can use this feature by visiting any writeup that you have voted on and clicking the "Rep Graph" link. The link will be right next to where the reputation is displayed on the writeup.

Enjoy!

Please note that these are monthly graphs, so anything in New Writeups isn't going to be very interesting. Try looking at some of the older writeups you have voted on.

This is a challenge to the people who love and care about this site. It is an opportunity for all of you here to create a page that can be shown to newer users and potential new users. It is your opportunity to promote this website in your own words.

Here you can share your favorite memories and experiences on E2. You can link to writeups you feel exhibit the heart and soul of E2. You can talk about your experiences writing and posting your own work. You can talk about other noders and the impact they had on you and your writing here.

This is not a page for complaints or negativity. It is a node about the positives. Think about all the things you would tell a friend you were encouraging to check this website out and pretend you are writing this for that friend.

This can be about experiences, writeups and people past and present. What made you want to stay here? What is it that makes you care about this place?

Join the promotion department at Why I love Everything2.

Heisenberg's E2 podcast is back again with the first episode of Season 3, with four submissions read by our fellow noders and a new special report on E2 as therapy, with special guests Whiskeydaemon and Riverrun.

Further details at May 5, 2008 and The Everything2 Podcast.

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Experience.
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Also! For the whole, extended last week of May - that's the start of Saturday the 24th till the end of the month - SuperMegaNodeFestQuest 2008 is running. Shazam! Abraxas! Ker-pow!

The E2 Theatre Quest came back! TenMinJoe once again requested your minute-long performance pieces for the Gone in Sixty Seconds 2008 Quest.

The E2 Quest: 21st Century Science finished on the 8th.

Also, Heisenberg is starting up season 3 of the E2 Podcast - it runs on your submissions, though, so dust off those microphones and hop to it!

We have a few pretty major new features...

• Multiple Scratch Pads - each user can now have as many separate scratch pads as they like, and it's possible to save directly to a scratch pad from the writeup submission box. We're still working on a fully operational button to post the other way.


• The new Notifications nodelet will keep track of your writeups being cooled, writeups being added to usergroups you're a member of and new writeups being submitted by authors you've marked as 'favorites'. Turn it on in your Nodelet Settings. It's great.


• Semantic URLs are go! Everything2's URLs are now in a far more intuitive form, like this: http://everything2.com/e2node/Brian+Eno. Have a poke around the site to see what other shapes they take.

The first two of those are mostly kthejoker's work (Oolong helped a bit with the multiple Scratch Pads) so showers of love and appreciation should be sent his way. Also bug reports. The legendary nate is behind the semantic URLs, and any major problems with them should go to e2webmaster@everything2.com. A few other developments are noted in root log: February 2008, but nothing nearly so exciting I'm afraid.

In other news, E2 Quest: 21st Century Science was ongoing at the time of writing. Time to start researching and writing up those interesting science stories you see in the papers every week! We're guessing that the average noder can do a better job of this than the average newspaper journalist. Prove us right.

This month has seen a series of new features being added to the site, mostly by in10se and Oolong, along with a few other improvements. Here are the main ones:

• Writeups by Type allows you to list writeups according to whether they're designated as poetry, reviews, places, etc.
• Log Archive lists all the various kinds of log submitted in any given month.
• Relatedly, we now dedicated nodelets for Logs and Dreams, which you can find in Nodelet Settings.
• Another new nodelet, Usergroup Writeups, allows you to list the writeups added to usergroups you're a member of, using the various commands which usually end in -ify which you get when you join certain usergroups. These are also listed here as well on the individual usergroup pages.
• Between the Cracks lists the least-voted-on writeups on the site - the things that nobody noticed, that lie forgotten, down the back of the sofa or lodged between two floorboards.
• Everything User Search is now vastly easier to navigate.
• Everybody can now see who created any given node, and customise their writeup headings.
• Various other bits and pieces are catalogued in Root Log: January 2008.