[www-tech] hiding posts

[john duda]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 01:14:26PM +0000, GarconDuMonde wrote:

> 
> there have been a few requests recently to hide posts on the global newswire.
> unfortunately, despite them being "unpublished"/hidden in the database, the
> posts still continue to show on the newswire. this is a technical problem: it is
> because the website is served off mirrors around the world (one of the reasons
> that mir is such a stable code base), rather than the server where people
> actually publish stuff (and where the admins can interact with the database).
> 

A better solution would be to tweak the mir producers so that hidden
articles got overwritten with a blank page, and then this would get
synced to the mirrors.  I'll try to do this later tonight.

-john


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