A quick note to those of you who wrote to ask me what happened to the custom search function we had at the old website: it's back, and can be accessed from the right sidebar or from the menu at the bottom of the page. I've been testing it today and it seems to be working fine, but do let me know if you have any problems with it.
Next on my to-do list: find the missing comments.
A reminder: registered users can get their own gravatar (the little image next to your name in the comments) by going to gravatar.com and signing up for an account using the same email address you used for your account here.
Yesterday, commenters without gravatars saw a rather generic "mystery man" image next to their name. Today we've replaced those with identicons — geometric images associated with your user name. If you hate your identicon, you can still go get a gravatar.
Otherwise, everything seems to be running smoothly at the moment other than the still-missing 8000 comments, which I hope to find later in the week. Do comment or email (robin at nstperfume dot com) if you find a broken page, or have any other problems using the site. And if you missed it, the We moved post explains most of what is new at Now Smell This.
Please note that if you have problems logging in on the right hand sidebar — it appears to accept your login information, but then it doesn’t appear to have logged you in (in other words, the fields go blank and the title above the login widget doesn’t change to “Welcome”), try pressing the login button again without entering anything else. This is a bug and I’m working on it…
And do note that you can't login using your old reader account from the blogharbor site; you need to get a new one. Read more here.
If anyone is having problems other than that, do comment or email me at robin at nstperfume dot com.
Now Smell This has a new home — www.nstperfume.com. If you link to us from your website, we’d be thrilled if you’d take a moment to update the URL.
Everything works pretty much the same as it did at the old site, with a few exceptions…
Before the poll, I wanted to mention that I've removed the link to create a new reader account. That means that the only people who can comment, for the moment, are those of you who were already signed up for reader accounts. We're planning to move Now Smell This in a few weeks (knock on wood) and since everyone is going to have to sign up all over again, it seemed sensible to prevent anyone from taking the time to sign up for an account that would only be active for a short time.
I should also note that getting the new site ready is taking up much of my time at the moment. I haven't been writing as many perfume reviews as I usually do, and that will probably continue to be true until we move to our new website.
Today's poll was suggested by Tama. Was there a fragrance note you hated until you tried perfume x…