h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

> That'll possibly be because iCan isn't a full DNA site

It is a full DNA site; it's impossible (as I understand it) to create a non-full DNA site.

All the extra features in iCan would be easily usable in other DNA sites if their skins were modified - for example, private threads could be more easily created through h2g2 if a suitable link was added onto a person's user page on h2g2, which would be done by modifying the skin, rather than the DNA software. As another example, <./>Club1</.> is a valid h2g2 page, but is visibly blank as the h2g2 skins have not been modified to handle clubs.

Rho

Bad example - it's not *that* valid. <./>Club4</.> though ...

*looks at <./>/dna/ican/Club1</.>* OK, you have a point!

Rho

Is this still in Beta, as the header says?

It's a pilot until April.

It looks very good, by the way.

Ohh new toys... I like!

Mel

Wouldn't it be nice if BBCi got the technology right on it's existing sites before going and making new ones? (I'm thinking about the rather large number of error messages on h2 lately)

They are taking after Microsoft (possibly the worst insult which exists in the computer industry) in ignoring existing bugs and continually releasing new versions to get new sales (ie online usage figures to wave at people in the case of the BBC). On the other hand it isn't that easy to find and fix bugs and they probably have some new release schedule imposed from higher up. Therein lies the problem of course - power hierarchy and superficial perception (as long as it looks good it must be).

>>The RPC server is too busy to complete this operation. <<


So, do the other DNA site have the same problem with all the error messages currently? i.e. if the h2 is getting lots of errors in an hour, will the other sites be getting them at the same time?

Same servers, same database, same problems. The different sites, as I understand it, are essentially extended skins with code to enforce the separation of content. But then I'm not that much of a techie...

Whoami?
h2g2 Guru

It is all dna and other bits of BBCi too - and bad enough to make the BBC announce it on the news on Saturday (according to a friend who doesn't even use h2g2!).

"and bad enough to make the BBC announce it on the news on Saturday"

What *actually* was announced though? iCan? h2g2? BBCi?

I can't tell you that - having a broken TV at the time. The friend wasn't specific because of not using the services, so any distinction wouldn't have meant much. I would guess it was BBCi generally.