Month: September 2005

One of the problems with the RSS feeds is that, for security reasons, they only syndicate public objects. We’d love to change this, but an issue is how do you authenticate an RSS reader into Elgg? It won’t remember a set of cookies, and I’m not happy about HTTP authentication over the URL string, so […]

Dave and I have now been collaborating on Elgg for what seems like forever – unbelievably, it’s only been around 18 months. However, the amount of work we’ve put into it, the thought and time, designs and redesigns, ideas and conversations have basically been our worlds since we started. One of my big regrets is […]

I’ve thought about themes and will do my very best to convert from the old system to the new using an automated script at the point of switchover. It’ll be a bit clunky, in the sense that the new elements probably won’t completely visually fit straight away, but you won’t lose any functionality and you’ll […]

Due to feedback from extensiveusability testing (both formal and the informal feedback we’ve received by running elgg.net since November), the Elgg interface is due to change massively. Dave already posted a sneak peek, and we’ve since got it working on our development site. Here’s the bad news: we’ve changed it so extensively that themes from […]