Is there a way to create or list stories by sub-topics.

ie...

instead of having your stories under the topics:

party pics party people party dates help general help faq

is there a way to define subtopics sop it displays as

party (which clicked shows the subtopics:) ---pics ---people ---dates

and

help (which clicked shows the subtopics:) ---general ---faq

???

-Michael

I posted a bug(?) here. It looks like the story.topic-macro creates wrong links when topics have spaces in it, right? Anything you can do about it?

i'm not sure, if this is the right place to report this, but it's worth a try. ;)

it seems like at some point today antville's xml-rpc server for blogger api calls stopped working. i (or rather fellow dump administrator ms k) noticed this because dumping comments doesn't work anymore.

is www.antville.org:5056 still the correct host to call for blogger api methods? cause i can't get a connection to it anymore. to me it looks like port 5056 has been closed. not by intention, i hope?

Vor dem großen Update konnte man die Thumbnail-Erzeugung beim Image-Hochladen durch Klicken einer Checkbox abschalten. Dies war auch gut so, denn bei Hochladen von Gif-Bildern gab es regelmäßig Fehler und Arbeitsverweigerung. Dummerweise ist dieser Fehler noch da, die Checkbox jedoch nicht mehr. Damit ist es nicht möglich, Gifs hochzuladen, die bei Bildschirmfotos (etwa für Praktikantville) vorzuziehen sind.

antville was unexpectedly down from tonight 4:59 cest to 9:28 cest – and is still having little problems... apologies.

update: hannes was able to calm down the server and now everything looks fine again.

Colours. On Antville, you have a background, title, text, small text, link, active link, and visited link colour respectively. If you edit the style sheet, you can invent new classes and make up even more colours. You can have seperate colours for questions, answers, tips, alerts, dreams or stories. You can define your very own colour scheme.

Now what if your visitors could choose from one of several ready-made colour schemes and pick the one that fits their mood best? What if you had an image with a whole rainbow in it and your visitors could click anywhere to make the whole site that colour? Phew, lots of work, you might think, you'd have to define all those colour schemes.

Well, no, you don't have to. You can use colour modification parameters. You can tell your Antville site that links should be the same colour as your text, just a little brighter and a bit more saturated, more tinted. You might figure the background could be the inverse colour of the text, so there's a good contrast, but as it turns out that that doesn't look too good, you specify that it shouldn't be as saturated, but paler, almost grey. And finally you set your titles to be like the text, just a bit darker and with a slightly different hue, a little greener. That's exactly what you did when you set up your *.antville colour scheme? Sure, but if you tell the system about those considerations, you can change your text colour, and everything else will adapt accordingly. Woo-hoo!

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why did you add this to the skin edit-forms?

mozilla converts existing "umlauts" within skins to the utf-equivalent at "save" (not showing the conversation in the textarea)

i know we always should - but: do we have to use html-entities to get the umlauts right...?