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This update contains an AJAX hide link for the alert system.  There are a few minor bug fixes as well, mostly related to the display of dates from months ago.  There are a few more minor features I am working on for the alert system before I move on to the next polish up, which will be annouced later on.

I pushed this update last night and noticed a bug this morning that was preventing it from working correctly under SSL, this was fixed this morning.

Very minor change, moved /content/ to /joke/ for better SEO.  I think I screwed up a few moves back when I changed this and my traffic took a nose dive.

There is also a few minor bug fixes included

I have been testing this system internally for a while now and its finally ready for release.  This simple system will keep track of links that are sent to you, or when your friend views a link.  There is now a new screen that shows alert events which is now the home screen when you login, think of it as your dashboard.

Presently, the system can only keep track of links sent to you, links you receive and special system notices.  I have plans for supporting ratings and comments in the near future as well an RSS feed.

This update contains a major update on the OpenID backend.  There was a number of issues with the old system that are finally resolved.  The big difference is the way user accounts are handled.  Previously, an OpenID was associated to an email address.  This is a serious problem since many OpenID providers don’t return email information, even if you specify its required.

However, that will make things much better long term.  If you have a bunch of email addresses you can add them all on to your profile.  Even better then that, is that you can specify the primary email where you want your links sent to.  Your friend only needs to know 1 of the email addresses on your list.  I have some things planned for this that will be reveled later on.

There is still a ton I need to do on the user account system, this is a major step towards the end goal.

There are a number of other minor improvement as well.  For example, the support page was a wreak previously.  I took a few minutes and throw together something that is a big improvement.  Although its not what I want, its a huge improvement over the previous version.

Update: After some data scrubbing I noticed that due to a long standing bug the total number of users on Linkped was inacurate.  This was due to the way I handled OpenID accounts that didn’t send an email address in the response.  I admit it was a very lame way to handle it but I was pressed for time.  The real total of users on Linkped is now 555