Category Archives: diaspora

August Pod Update!

Well we survived the doors of my host closing and are now on a dedicated server! Its humming along just fine.Still trying to get back some $ from the VPS jumps and loosing the clubuptime one. But people have been donating and signing up for the coffee subscription and helping out, Thank You! The Diaspora… Read More »

Servers, Issues – August.

Most of you know my host http://clubuptime.com closed its doors last week. Zero notice, just pulled the plug and no server. I was able to get the pod back up in a few hours using a backup from the night before and a VPS I was able to get spun up from a deal on… Read More »

July Pod Update

I first want to really thank the folks who have subscribed/flattrd or donated, I really appreciate your help and am back at the break even point and that’s right where I want/need to be! The server speed seems to be holding steady and all is working ok. I personally have been working on other things… Read More »

Pod Privacy Policy

Here is the privacy policy of diasp.org, http://diasp.org/privacy-policy.html My main connection, http://www.wholesaleinternet.com/ I store my pod database backups and photo backups at another host I use,  http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/PrivacyPolicy

Formatting Text on Diaspora | Different Computers

Diaspora has a variety of ways for you to make your text less than plain. For those who know what Mark Down is, Diaspora uses a partial subset of that. But it also does things a bit like Twitter does, and a bit like Facebook stole from Twitter. Most of these formatting tricks work in… Read More »

Server move tomorrow the 30th

Tomorrow morning I will be moving the pod to its new home. My host ClubUptime has discontinued their OpenVZ VPS and only offers Xen VPS now, this is a good thing. Downtime should be very minimal as I have things all set up, however it does have a new IP (50.23.213.171) and updating DNS always… Read More »

Diaspora* Pod Stats & Status April 2011 Update

April 2011 Pod update Well I have been pretty busy with work and some other projects, but thought I would do a pod update. Diaspora* has been on my backburner a bit, but the Dev’s seem hard at work and I still update the code everyday to the pod. First off I made a plea… Read More »

New pod domain name poll

My friend wants to start up a pod, I have some domain names he can use but not sure what to use! What do you think would be hip and cool? [bwpdaddy id=’4960752′]

Diaspora* Changes and Updates 3/12/11

Well the dev team has pushed a lot of stuff out already this month: -Images inline bigger now -Audio Inline .mp3 (you need a html5 like chrome to see it) -RSS feeds are fixed, see your feed at http://diasp.org/public/username -Public profile, see yours at https://diasp.org/people/youruserid (logout to see what the world will see) -Hashtags #tryit… Read More »