When will subscriber login be fixed?
Since the Antville 1.1 upgrade it has not been possible for subscribers to login in to private blogs. When will this serious bug be fixed? Surely, we do not have to wait until the next release?
I am surprised more people haven't raised the issue because according to Antville website there are over 1000 private sites. Am I missing something?
kinomu Verwaltung
I do not consider this a bug but an intelligent solution, as switching to private temporarily for me means that I want my blog to be accessible only for users that I grant trust (in contrast to all subscribers that want to know when my blog has been updated the last time).
If that hadn't been changed, going private for a while and wanting to communicate with selected people only meant deleting all the other subscriptions.
By changing the user status to "contributor", you enable login to a private blog. In addition, contributors are permitted to add stories, pictures, files and polls. If you don't want them to do so, adapt the skin "navigation bar for contributors" (you find it under "site layout" > "navigation").
(Only few of the private blogs are used. I guess that at least 1200 haven't been updated for a year.)
JohnWalsh
I didn't want to upgrade members because I didn't want to give them access to edit stories etc. I'll test what you suggested. The only downside to this solution is that members will get an email about there change in status, which will confuse some people. Do you know when there will be a fix?
kinomu Verwaltung
Here you can read how to modify the e-mails that members will get.
A fix to what?
JohnWalsh
Of course, this is a hassle for your members but this cannot be helped without an Antville invitational feature.
I wanted to know when there would be a fix to allow subscribers to login into private blogs again - my original question. You must be tired
kinomu Verwaltung
As there's no bug, there won't be a fix.
(That's tiring, indeed.)
JohnWalsh
If something no longer works as it did before then its a bug. Orignially, all my stories were public. However, I discovered that reffers were coming from porn sites to view innocent pictures of my 2 yr old daughter. The thought turned my stomach so I made the site private. I want my trusted subscribers to remain subscribers.
I followed your tip about making subscribers contributors and remove contibutors previledges from the navigation bar for contributors skin. I also removed the add story link on the topics page and the stories page as contibutors can access these pages. Of course contributors can view my offline stories but this cannot be helped. I wouldn't have to do any of this if subscribers worked as intended.
Ideally, I would like to have public stories for the everybody to view and private stories for family and friends, but this is not possible in antville.
Please, reinstate this as a bug as was originally stated.
JohnWalsh
In hindsight, I should never have said as you were only trying to help me. I apologise.
I was getting frustrated with getting no feedback on what I consider a bug with non-public subscribers login. In fact, I followed your tip as a temporary measure to give people access to my site. I don't like it, but its the best solution out there for now. I still think there is a bug, so lets just agree to differ and leave it at that.
kinomu Verwaltung
Having porn sites in the referrer list doesn't mean content from your blog has been linked at porn sites. In fact, it's very! unlikely.
Most blogs at antville.org, even the most innocent Antville Help, have porn sites in the referrer list - that's not real links, but spam. (To prevent referrer lists from being spilled with spam, we can use the "Referrer spam filter" (http://blogname.antville.org/edit).)