Quick Apologies (and the Blog Really Does Work Now)

It seems there were some issues after my initial testing (when the DNS settings finished propagating after the back-end upgrade). So over the weekend permalinks weren’t functioning, meaning category pages and blog post pages returned errors. I’m sorry for the delay in finding that problem, but I hadn’t checked the site while I was away for a few days. Everything should work correctly now. If you stumble across other issues, don’t hesitate to let me know — shoot me an email at jenn@allindiepublishing.com.

Squeaky Clean Servers and Super Sucky Author Websites

Update: The server move is complete and you should be able to resume commenting without comments ending up stranded in the old database.

Two very quick announcements:

1. Tomorrow (Thursday) All Indie Publishing will move to an upgraded server. While I’m dealing with the move and corresponding maintenance, there may be occasional hiccups. I expect to do the database backup anywhere from 10 am – noon eastern. Any comments you post after that backup but before the site is live on the new servers will not remain on the site (as you’ll be posting to the old database). I’ll add an update to this post when the site is live on the new server and you can comment again without worry.
2. When that’s taken care of, we’ll get back to your regularly scheduled posting, starting with a conversation I initiated on Twitter the other day. We’ll talk about the fact that author websites are notoriously dated and downright suckfests. And then I’ll share a few exceptions that rock, and what you can do to make sure your own author site or book site doesn’t belong back in 1995.

See you on the other side!

Comment Policy and Changes at All Indie Publishing

Update: Unfortunately the new spam-prevention tool was unable to prevent “smart spam” (spam from real people — usually SEO firms — rather than bots) and we were hit with a bunch of it on this blog and my freelance writing blog in the last few days. It was since removed, but as a result I’ve had to implement first comment moderation again. That means your first comment on this blog should be moderated. But once you’ve had your first comment approved, future comments should publish immediately as long as they don’t raise any of the spam flags (like too many in-comment links).

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Due to the current ongoing conversation on a recent post, I’ve decided to change our comment spam filter here at All Indie Publishing. This way first comments from new readers won’t have to wait in moderation, especially as I keep a strict work-life balance and rarely moderate comments during the weekend.

Now you’ll have to click a checkbox to confirm that you aren’t a spammer. However, you won’t have to wait on moderation for your first comment. It’s a compromise, and one we probably would have moved to soon anyway due to problems with my previous spam filtering plugin.

On that note, please remember that all comments are subject to our comment policy. Having them go through without manual moderation does mean they’ll remain on the site if they violate these policies. You can access them at any time through the “policies” link near the top of this site, or you can access them outside of the full policy list near the comment form on any post.