Eating My Own Dog Food

Okay, it’s time to eat my own dog food. I’ve been openly campaigning for user-registration systems for logware for almost a year, and now that WordPress has an option for users to register themselves … so I’m going to enable it. I’m even going to take the Draconian step of requiring users to register to be able to comment.

You may feel free to complain about this policy … after you’ve registered for an account. :)

Posted February 24th, 2005 in Silly Site Stuff, Web Wonk by Geof F. Morris.

9 comments:

  1. Mike:

    It works for me, though I found something about the Dashboard that I should pass on to the developers: When I try to click on a link in the “Recent Posts” list, I get this message:

    “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

    I’m thinking those shouldn’t even be clickable, or should at least change to “view this post” links.

  2. _steve:

    WOOOHOOO!!!

    *crossing fingers that my plugins won’t be borked*

  3. Roger:

    No complaints, except that I use computer in the cluster at school, so I’m not always logged onto the same one and even when I am it doesn’t save my cookies, etc, so I always have to type my log-ins everywhere.

    Good thing I’m not too lazy.

  4. Geof F. Morris:

    Yeah, it is a pain, Rog. Sorry. :(

  5. the Foolish Sage:

    I feel like I just joined a secret society. Do I get a decoder ring?

  6. GFMorris.com:

    Site Version 1.1

    I’m calling the present state of GFMorris.com’s layout Version 1.1. Added since you last viewed the site:

    Gravatars in comments. This isn’t a requirement; if you don’t have one, a silhouette shows up beside your posts. Since I require user…

  7. Imperfect Mirror » Blog Archive » A Brief Apology:

    [...] part. I have now corrected the error, and commenting may ensue. Sorry for the mistake! As with GFMorris.com, you’ll have to register to comment, and you’ll [...]

  8. domesticat:

    eh, I have no problem signing up for this sort of thing, since I made you guys do it on my site. :)

  9. The Indiana Jones School of Management:

    Optional Registration

    Y’know, when I did the 1.5 upgrade around here, I meant to note that I’d made user registration optional. Now, I’m not going to make registration mandatory as I have in other places, but I’ll give you a hint: you get less guff…

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