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Anselm Lingnau

We're now up to date again with MiniCribs at version 28.03 (published tonight or so).

· Posted by Anselm Lingnau · 20 March 2018 7:36

Anselm Lingnau

The MiniCribs on the Strathspey SCD Database are now up to version 28.02 (published yesterday, or early today). Thanks to the MiniCribs team for their ongoing support!

· Posted by Anselm Lingnau · 24 February 2018 9:12

Anselm Lingnau

Please welcome Murrough Landon as the newest Strathspey SCD Database editor!

· Posted by Anselm Lingnau · 8 February 2018 2:26

Anselm Lingnau

It's time once more to crack down on spam-type user accounts on the my.strathspey system, which are annoying and seem to outnumber the real accounts.

From looking at the database, it seems that most if not all of these unwanted accounts either have both their first and last names set to the username of the account (which in real life would be weird) or else have no first and last names set at all. In theory we require first and last names, so any account that doesn't have any at all is technically breaking the rules of the game.

What I'm going to do a week from now is delete all accounts that fit this description where the user in question hasn't logged in for six months. If you want to make sure your account isn't inadvertently deleted, you should:

  1. Ensure that it has a first and last name associated with it (it would sure be nice if it was your actual first and last name but if you call yourself “Hamish McGonigle” nobody is going to be the wiser), and/or

  2. Log into your account. You can log right out again but we want to know that you're there.

Accounts that have dance lists, ratings, or collections in the dance database will also be exempt.

After these suspect accounts have been removed, all remaining accounts that have no first and last name associated with them will have their first name set to “Anonymous” and their last name to “Dancer”. The users in question will of course be free to set them to something else in their profile (except the empty string or any name consisting of all spaces).

· Posted by Anselm Lingnau · 18 January 2018 1:15 (last edited on 18 January 2018 1:16)

Anselm Lingnau

@David: The list of RSCDS branches and affiliated groups on the server is based on the data on the RSCDS server as of shortly after the Deluge. This is unfortunate and annoying in many respects, and unlikely to change anytime soon because it is virtually impossible to obtain this data from the current incarnation of the RSCDS web site other than by doing it by hand. I'm hoping that this situation will change in the future.

If you send me your group's particulars (preferably by e-mail to anselm@strathspey.org) I can add it in manually.

· Posted by Anselm Lingnau · 22 November 2016 13:55

Anselm Lingnau

SCDDB collections now support “sharing URLs”. These are difficult-to-guess web links that you can give to people whom you would like to allow read-only access to a collection of yours. Anybody who knows the sharing URL for a collection can look at that collection (they don't even need to be signed in to the site).

You can find the sharing URL for a collection by going to that collection's page. It is listed prominently on the overview tab.

· Posted by Anselm Lingnau · 10 June 2016 2:05

Anselm Lingnau

fixed a few long-standing Strathspey SCD database bugs today:

  • People who try to create a new dance list with the name of another of their dance lists now get a nicer error message.

  • In the editing screen for publications, a “fuzzy” publication date can now be saved back directly (there used to be a formatting problem that caused dates to be put into the form in a format that the form processor couldn't understand, which was a nuisance).

· Posted by Anselm Lingnau · 5 June 2016 21:58

Anselm Lingnau

MiniCribs in the database are now up to version 25.12 (we skipped 25.11 because I didn't get around to uploading it). The number of unmatched cribs is now 165 out of 4794, which isn't bad, but could be reduced further if we managed to add a handful of strategic publications. We're looking into it.

· Posted by Anselm Lingnau · 30 November 2015 10:01

Anselm Lingnau

In the dance database, video comments are now displayed in the video modal. This closes a long-standing issue which made video comments virtually useless. (There is still no convenient way of editing video comments after the fact except through the Django admin interface, but that's a project for another day.)

· Posted by Anselm Lingnau · 14 September 2015 12:01

Anselm Lingnau

I just updated the HTTPS certificates for the Strathspey sites, so everything should be back to normal now after they expired a few days ago. Sorry for any inconvenience.

· Posted by Anselm Lingnau · 9 September 2015 10:34

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