Radio Userland

Itown, a new Radio Community Server, has been launched with its own personalized version of Radio UserLand. Site publisher Harvey Kirkpatrick wants "townblogs" to be published for towns and cities of all sizes. "Imagine one million hometown newspapers," he writes. "The need for good, fresh information about places goes still unfulfilled on the web." ... (read more)

2003/02/06

The version numbering for Radio UserLand is leading David Weller, Scott Hanselman, and Sam Gentile to think it hasn't been updated in almost a year. Radio UserLand is updated frequently through automatic middle-of-the-night downloads -- the Radio.root changes feed lists 15 updates in the last month alone. People who quit using Radio say often that there's no support. Where are they looking? UserLand programmers Jake Savin and Lawrence Lee participate frequently in the support and development ... (read more)

2003/02/05

As described by Jason Kottke, several news aggregators (including Radio) are disregarding a rule of HTTP 1.1 and promoting themselves in the referrer field. Unofficial patches have been offered to change this in Radio and AmphetaDesk. Part of Mark Paschal's Radio patch will be overwritten the next time UserLand updates the xml.rss.readService script. ... (read more)

2003/02/01

Jake Savin is looking for Radio users to test a new backup and restore feature: "It's a beta -- please help us test it out, but only if you're someone who's comfortable running beta software." ... (read more)

2003/01/31

New Radio UserLand feature: Previous and next day links. ... (read more)

2003/01/29

Scott Johnson has hit the 20MB limit on Radio UserLand's server, which can happen if you're publishing a lot of images or multimedia files. One way to deal with this is to set up Radio to publish some files to a second server using the upstreaming feature. I've set up Radio to automatically publish anything saved in a /Radio Userland/www/offsite folder to the Web hosting space provided by my ISP. ... (read more)

2003/01/29

Mark Paschal has released version 1.2.0 of Kit, his excellent replacement for Radio UserLand's news aggregator. This version includes several important bug fixes and enhancements. My favorite new feature: "repairs broken HTML (unclosed tags and attributes) in news items." ... (read more)

2003/01/20

Groovy new Radio theme: Bryan Bell's Candid Blue. ... (read more)

2003/01/17

UserLand Software has decided how renewals will be handled for Radio UserLand: $39.95 for another year of hosting and software updates. The software will continue to function without a subscription if you're publishing to another server by FTP or a server such as PyCS. But you'd miss out on new features -- there were eight significant upgrades to Radio 8 last year. ... (read more)

2003/01/17

UserLand is issuing a Radio UserLand update for RSS 2.0 feeds that use the domain attribute. ... (read more)

2003/01/16

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