from now on it should be impossible to create a topic which name contains forbidden characters (like /, &, # etc.). hope everything is fine, but if you discover any bugs please post them in here.

i've been working on a new weblog-preference for specifying the timezone of a weblog. now it basically works, there's just one question i'd like to discuss: should we store timestamps in antville's database in GMT or keep it like it is (= local time)?

first options means that not only are timestamps in the database stored in GMT but also the appserver (just Helma, not the server) itself must run in GMT (specified in server.properties, specifying the timezone in apps.properties has no effect) - which means that every other app using the same Helma-installation is forced to adjust time according to a specified timezone itself.

second option means that antville will have to do a bit more of time-calculating (calc local time from DB back to GMT and then use the offset according to the specified timezone).

i tend to store timestamps in database in GMT, although this means that antville would get another default-property (the timezone of an antville-installation). and all existing timestamps in database must be converted to GMT. what ya think?

it took me hours to figure out why the calendar on alo is so huge. contrary to the previous version the macro <% param.day %> now returns the number surrounded by two &nbsp; spaces. can you please change it back? adding the spaces in the default calendar skins should do the job as well.

i also realised that the formerly mentioned redirection behaviour is actually more confusing than expected when it comes to collaborative sites with non-antville-savvy members. in particular on alo or on metafilter-inspired sites, which are essentially forum sites where members can only post to the frontpage and discuss frontpage posts, it introduces another unnecessary concept to the user. the normal member does not need to see the story pool, because for him the site consists only of posts and replies.

finally, i think the tagline in the default template would be cool.

Feature Request: Ich wünsche mir ein zusätzliches Input-Field Link bei den Stories, das dann auch im Link-Tag des dazugehörenden RSS-Feeds eingetragen wird.

Damit kann ich dann einfach die Überschriften der Rollberg-Meldungen mit der Quelle verlinken (so wie schon im alten Rollberg).

i think some of the short date formats are looking a little bit weird: instead of dd.MM, hh:mm and the variations up to d.M, h:m i'd rather like to see dd.MM. hh:mm and so on (ie. replacing the colon with a dot).

btw. generally, i am totally against all these us-american non-sense formats including disordered parts like MM.dd.yyyy...

Moin,

ich hab in irgendeinem antville-weblog rechts ein zusätzliches Feld mit einer Linkliste gesehen.

Wie füge ich ein solches Feld ein?

Vielen Dank!

Gibt es ein Macro, mit dem man das jeweilige Topic einer Story anzeigen kann (mit Link auf die entsprechende Topic-Seite)?