Thanks to all who participated in the Tabulas sales; I'll let the deal go until tonight at midnight (EST) for any stragglers who want in. Get them now while they're cheap!

As for the status of Tabulas, I apologize at the lack of news regarding Tabulas. Work has been going on behind-the-scenes for the upcoming Tabulas 2.0. Tabulas 2.0 is a rewrite of the whole Tabulas platform and will take advantage of a new templating engine, a better control panel, and a few new features (nothing huge). I have been working my butt off on the new version now, which is why support ticket requests have largely gone ignored. I apologize.

In any case, I'm looking to launch 2.0 within year's end; this will fix up ALL nasty issues with Tabulas *and* allow for better control over templating issues. Some select users have been beta testing the new control panel, and they absolutely love it (although it's kind of buggy at the moment) due to its ease of use and general lack of suckiness.

There was downtime a few days ago with the image gallery servers due to the hard drive being filled up on our data servers; I have since added another data server to help handle burgeoning growth.

The big news here is that I am going to be moving servers around and revamping the Tabulas network to be more robust. This will result in some (hopefully) minor downtime as I move services and data around from server to server. I will notify you through this journal when the downtimes will occur.

Yesterday, one of our servers was compromised through a Linux kernel exploit. I am working to make sure this does not happen again.

Thanks for your continued support, and I know Tabulas has been a pain in the neck the past few weeks; please stick around for the next few weeks so you can enjoy the fruits of your suffering with 2.0!

I'd also like to take this moment to thank everybody who paid for a paid account over the past few weeks. I have had some personal issues to deal with, and the money made from the sale paid accounts will be used to purchase new servers and create a more powerful, secure Tabulas network. Thanks to everybody!

Posted by tabulas on December 15, 2004 at 12:28 PM in General News | 9 Comments

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Comment posted on December 16th, 2004 at 01:17 PM
Er...anyone have a problem where your "leave a comment" link just didn't show up altogether?

Cuz I do...
Comment posted on December 16th, 2004 at 03:01 PM
OH, NEVERMIND what I said. Somehow that little check box that allows for commenting became...well, unchecked.
Comment posted on December 16th, 2004 at 11:30 AM
always happy to support you, roy :) i love tabulas ... oOo .. can you please please fix the bug too wheren you can't write a "< " in the comments without ruining your comment?? please :(
Comment posted on December 17th, 2004 at 02:06 PM
That's not a bug. If I disable <, then people trying to put HTML in comments will be messed up. If you remember a few months ago, I tried to add a 'enable html on this comment,' but the whole system also screwed up foreign characters unless they checked enable html... it just got way too confusing.
Comment posted on December 15th, 2004 at 10:42 PM
I noticed that compromised about 14 or so hours ago. But it looked like it was only the sites' mainpage was affected by it as I was still able to login to my account.
Comment posted on December 15th, 2004 at 08:59 PM
(I was on the paid beta subscription before, but you said I could sign up and use these the new rates, but... not at the expense of losing my features)
Comment posted on December 16th, 2004 at 10:25 AM
Sorry about that; it was a bug in the upgrading system. I've fixed your account and will fix that bug shortly.
Comment posted on December 16th, 2004 at 07:20 PM
Thanks!
Comment posted on December 15th, 2004 at 08:58 PM
Ok, so I got a subscription. And now it looks like my subscription got *downgraded* to paid from beta. :(