Friendster Redone, with One Big Boo-boo

Jun 30, 2004 11:55 AM
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Scott Andrew sums up the good and bad of the move to PHP and a DIV-based layout.

No doubt there were many changes behind the scenes too.

But they should have included this big one: going to the old homepage gives you an error message, instead of redirecting you to the new version.

Same for login.jsp and, probably, many other pages.

One small change — using Apache to redirect all JSP requests to a PHP page — would be helpful in some cases (where there is a corresponding page) and harmless in others (if there's no equivalent, they'll get the same error message that they would have sans redirect).

Whaddaya say, troutgirl?


Comments: Friendster Redone, with One Big Boo-boo

And the upgrade isn't without problems, it appears. My "Messages" page won't work. Well...mostly. The Inbox won't show. Doing some workarounds brings up the other folders (Sent, Trash), but just not the Inbox. Hopefully this is something being fixed. Hopefully... ;)

Posted by: Samuel Sidler on June 30, 2004 3:04 PM | permalink

Yeah, their reliability isn't quite out of beta yet ... btw, do you have a feed? I can't subscribe to your blog even though Blogger ones have an atom.xml by default.

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on June 30, 2004 3:27 PM | permalink

Yeah...that was weird. For some reason the feed 1) isn't turned on by default and 2) wasn't going to the right spot when it was turned on. I suppose it's only turned on by default when you're hosted on BlogSpot, but why in the world it was attempting to place it in a random spot on my server, I have the slightest.

It should be atom.xml on the root directory now.

Posted by: Samuel Sidler on June 30, 2004 6:11 PM | permalink

Hi Joe! Believe it or not, the lack of redirecting is what PM specified. It's not a technical issue, if you know what I'm saying. :-)

Posted by: Troutgirl on June 30, 2004 9:05 PM | permalink

Yeah, but the PM is WRONG. And sometimes the devs. have to tell them so. Politely, of course. ;)

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on July 1, 2004 8:21 AM | permalink

No more comments! Either someone has violated Godwin's Law, I'm tired of the discussion or, most likely, the ten-week window has closed. You can, however, contact me through email.