A short status update on 2.0:

New Features

Your Entry Preferences are now working; you'll now see a ton of options for storing information about other blogging services (LiveJournal, DeadJournal, GreatestJournal, Blogger, Xanga, Blurty). If you decide to store your username/password for those accounts on Tabulas, Tabulas can crosspost to those services. This is much better than the old version because no additional work is required by you (the old version required another click and required you to be logged in ... now you don't have to be logged in to those accounts!). You must put in both username/password; once you do this, checkboxes appear on your Add an Entry page. Simply check the box, post your entry ... and you're done!

Bug Fixes

A lot of the additional entry metadata wasn't working (song of the moment / moods, etc.). I've fixed the input problem, but I still haven't added support to a lot of templates... I am doing this shortly!

A bunch of other small stuff... most of everything posted to the forums was fixed promptly.

Issues to Fix

This is a running list of issues I need to address.

• Fix up default templates
  A lot of teh default templates do not have the "Song of the Moment" or moods supported. I will fix this. A lot of the default templates are also showing a TON of whitespace above the main content; to fix this, either disable your tagboard or switch to another template (Aphrodite works, I believe). I am going to redo the main template so it doesn't screw up and also so the tagboard fits in the right column.
• Communities
  Everything about communities still doesn't work (you can post to them, still!). I am adding support for this as fast as possible.
• Old Styles
  I am still working to recover your old styles. Your old color schemes should be recoverable within a few days. Please note that you can already import your old custom template by using the templating import page. Once you have imported it, be sure to enable it from the select template page.
• Old Color Selector
  That old popular tool that let you select custom styles for your template is still being worked on.

Still having problems?

I'd just like to note that all posts made in forums are answered quite promptly. I do not have time to weed through the comments on this journal to offer troubleshooting; please post in the forums if you have a question!

Boosting Free User Accounts

Thanks to all the paid accounts, not only are we opening the user directory to paid users, but we're also going to start applying higher image limits for free account. For the time being, all free members on jbiel.tabulas.com (You can see which server you're on by visiting your own Profile page) have had their image limits boosted to 50. Members on lca.tabulas.com and aces.tabulas.com will have their bonuses applied soon (those servers are both full and I'm waiting for a hard drive upgrade to both those servers to expand space).

Some of you have noticed that categories seem to be accessible by free users - yes this is a new free feature for everybody! I will be limiting the # of categories for free accounts to 3 categories, but this should at least help you organize your journal a bit more!

Thanks for your continued patience during this upgrade period!