Category: Housekeeping

Many thanks to an attentive subscriber who told us that updates were no longer arriving by email. Apparently they stopped around 20 April; I have no idea why. This has not affected those who subscribe directly in a feed reader (which is why I did not myself notice). I’m trying to sort this out as quickly as possible, and I hope normal service will be restored soon.

(Of course, if you only subscribe by email, you may not see this …)

The next edition of Berry go Round, the botany blog carnival, is almost upon us, and we’re proud to be hosting it right here. Keeping up with the times, you can submit posts using the Twitter hashtag #berrygoround, which the BGR overlord monitors, or direct on the submission form. Official deadline is Friday 25 January. Unofficially, I probably won’t get round to writing it all up before Sunday, for delivery Monday Morning.

Scientists Seek to Clone Perfect Christmas Tree

Bloggers seek to return soon. Enjoy whatever holiday is that that you enjoy, and some Christmas Tree Diversity.

… was a growing sensation that our RSS feed — served through Google’s Feedburner — could be a liability, as there are signs that Google is neglecting Feedburner. If you’re reading this in a Feed Reader, you might want to change the details to point to https://agro.biodiver.se/feed/ or just delete and subscribe again, which should pick up the feed automagically.

The bigger problem is the people who subscribe by email. We think we’ve sorted this out too, by adding all existing subscribers to a new list at MailChimp. If you are one of those, you should be seeing this message in an email. If you want to continue getting a daily update by email, there’s no need to do anything else. If you want to unsubscribe, there’s a link at the bottom of the email.

I hope that’s all …

I know just enough about web servers to be dangerous, as anyone who has tried to visit the site since last Saturday knows. For this, I am really sorry. I think most things are now back to normal, although there are clearly problems with the categories. ((I hate categories anyway, being a freetext search kind of person, so the whole question is moot for now.)) And some things are just plain weird, still. These things take time. We’ll be thinking about the design; maybe going back to the old one, maybe trying something new. And we value your loyalty. So if there’s something not working, leave a comment here, or something.

The truly scary thing is the realisation that we are fast coming up on our 6th birthday. Perhaps everything will be working perfectly by then.

Here’s hoping.

Wow! I did it, and with a week to spare. Now just a couple of minor changes under the hood, as it were, and she’ll be good for another 5000 posts.