Samizdat: Co-op Engine
Samidat 0.5.4 (2004-10-22)
In this version, front page layout was changed to the more familiar
vertial split with the main column featuring focuses and right column
running recent updates in the open publishing wire. New moderation
facility allows to take over messages, displace their contents
completely, and block member accounts. More new features: alternative
CSS theme Indy is added and now is selectable from the Settings page;
Belarussian translation is added; database connection is now
configurable and allows to run multiple Samizdat instances on a single
server; oversize titles and descriptions are now truncated.
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What's new
- front page
- the old horizontal split between focuses table and recent
updates is replaced with the vertical split; recent updates are
displayed unchanged in the right column, while the mail column
shows most popular focuses with each featuring description of
the most recent message and titles of other recent messages in
the focus
- moderation
- moderators specified in config.yaml are able to take over
messages (current version of such message can still be viewed
through history of changes), displace messages (the displaced
version of a message cannot be restored), and block member
accounts (blocked account can be unblocked by any other
moderator); all moderator actions are logged in an append-only
table
- theme selection
- any user can now select preferred CSS theme on the Settings
page; the new Indy scheme follows the style and color scheme of
the global Indymedia site
- new translation
- site interface is translated to Belarussian
- multi-site hosting
- database connection is no longer hard-coded into Samizdat
RDF storage module and can be changed in config.yaml; with some
clever Apache configuration, it is even possible to run many
sites from the single code base, differing only in config.yaml
and content/ (and optionally css/) directory
- string truncation
- titles and short contents of messages are now truncated to
the limits specified in config.yaml, ellipsis is appended to
truncated strings