This has been repaired. We have discovered a problem when creating new blogs. It appears the blog is created, but without any templates. Blog creation also usually brings up this error message: CMSPostSave_blog failed: I would recommend not creating any...
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 8:40:28 PST
Hello everyone. While we have successfully moved to the new server, some issues have surfaced that we are still working on in UThink land. I just wanted to let you know that we are aware of them. Issue 1 --...
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 8:40:28 PST
UPDATE: We have successfully moved to the new hardware. If you were using the CAPTCHA plugin on the old server, you will need to re-enable the plugin. We had to reinstall the plugin from scratch to get it to work...
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 8:40:28 PST
We have been alerted to a problem with uploading large files to UThink with Firefox 2.0. It appears that any large files (anything over 2MB in size) are not fully uploaded with Firefox 2.0. Firefox 1.* and all Internet Explorer...
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 8:40:28 PST
Hello everyone! If there is one thing bloggers have to put up with it is blog spam. Well, hopefully we have made it a little easier here at UThink: we have just added the Captcha plugin to the system. What...
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 8:40:28 PST
First of all, let me say this is the most active semester UThink has ever had. Almost 1,000 active blogs and more posts every day than ever before. Success has its downsides, though, as the server has now become unacceptably...
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 8:40:28 PST
• Hello everyone! I hope you had a nice summer. UThink is still humming along, as is the relatively new UThink Techincal FAQ Wiki. If you haven't visited the UThink Wiki, it has some great posts on Layout and Customization,...
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 8:40:28 PST
As far as I can tell, the 40,000th published entry on UThink happened at 8:12 this morning and is an entry called "Friday Random Top 10 (NYC Version)" from a relatively new blog Lost Forest After Dark. There is no...
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 8:40:28 PST
Hello everyone! Sorry for my extended silence, but I was waiting to write something when UThink hit 40,000 total entries. That was going to happen this week, and then someone deleted a couple of blogs that had over 500 entries....
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 8:40:28 PST
As you may have noticed, blog spam has been especially fierce over the past week or so at UThink headquarters is always thinking of new ways to thwart it. As many of you have discovered, blog spam typically happens on...
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 8:40:28 PST
Greetings everyone! I have been dilligently working on a UThink Technical FAQ for a while now in order to answer some of the more common questions I get about the service. If you'll recall, I also wanted to put the...
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 8:40:28 PST
Hello everyone! I'm still working on the technical FAQ, but in the meantime I thought I would give you some instructions on how to put a search engine on your blog. As many of you have already found out, the...
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 8:40:28 PST
Hello everyone. I've been getting a lot of the same questions and comments recently concerning the more technical side of Movable Type and our implementation of it on UThink. So, I've been preparing a "Technical FAQ" that will hopefully highlight...
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 8:40:28 PST
UThink was recently featured in the Star Tribune in an article entitled: "Online combination plate aims to build community." The article begins: To keep up with rapid changes in Internet technology, the University of Minnesota is offering students, faculty and...
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 8:40:28 PST
Kurtis Scaletta, M.A., Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota, is conducting a survey of undergraduate bloggers, the purpose of which is "to get a general sense of the preferences and perceptions of students on the usefulness...
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 8:40:28 PST
