Archive for the 'userstyles' Category

userstyles.org and ads

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

As you may or may not have noticed based on your use of ad-blocking, userstyles.org has had ads for a while now. These ads will only show the first time you visit that day, unless you opt-in to always see them (configurable by editing your user).
Originally, I used Google Adsense. This pays you a [...]

Better tracking of forum threads about your styles

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

User’s pages on the site now have a link marked “Discussions on this user’s styles”. That will lead you a list of forum threads that people started by clicking on “Ask a question or make a suggestion” on that user’s style pages. The resulting page (like every other forum page) has a feed you can [...]

Apache doesn’t like escaped slashes (percent-2F)

Friday, September 19th, 2008

The URL format Stylish uses for “Find Styles for this Page” correctly escapes slashes - it makes URLs like http://userstyles.org/styles/search/http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com. A while back userstyles.org stopped understanding that format. As a workaround, I put in some code to the 404 page that would redirect the user to http://userstyles.org/styles/search/http://google.com, which is a URL that’s not really correct, [...]

Mongrel memory usage

Friday, September 19th, 2008

The site has been moved from a shared host on HostingRails to a virtual private server. This means that I can set up the server however like, with Apache modules and whatnot (good), but it means that I have to set up the server myself, with Apache modules and whatnot (bad). It also means that [...]

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