Freebie: URGENT NEWS

When I screw up, I don't fool around.

A very small but very bad error exists in the Freebie 2.xx releases; it is fixed in 2.11, which is now up.

The error was a rel="nofollow" that snuck into the findbooks script, so that all your nice thousands of book pages were invisible to search engines.

I beat my breast, I pour ashes on my hair--but I fix the problem, too. (I also added in a few other tweaks at the same time.) Do be sure to read the docfile Upgrading.html, but in essence you just pour the new files over the old, excepting the customize.inc and the .htm files (if you've customized any of those), then quickly run pull.php (once per division--it takes about 2 seconds to run) to remake the lists from the extant search data.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

 

Thanks for letting us know (+ the quick fix). Would it be possible to have a mailing list, so we're updated pretty quickly to future issues?

Thanks again,
Scott

 

Most certainly. In fact, I have one now, save that I cannot be sure how complete it is. But anyone who wants on the "Freebie" mailing list, just send me an email to that effect, at:

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I think, though, that I will expand that to an all-site mailing list, since those who use one of the toys often use another. Most of the others, being pretty simple, don't change as much or as often as Freebie, but I'll send update/change info on them all to anyone interested.