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Permalink Reply by Holger Schmeken on December 6, 2011 at 4:45am

Somehow the TuAnalyze section on the main page now says something like: "Wolf CMS automatically disabled! Wolf CMS has been disabled as a security precaution. Reason: the configuration file was found to be writable. The broadest rights Wolf CMS allows for config.php are: -rwxr-xr-x".

Permalink Reply by Emmy on December 6, 2011 at 4:37pm

If you have a Yahoo ID, you can chat for free, either with typing, or if you have a headset with a mic, you can voice chat. Just log into Yahoo Messenger with your Yahoo ID, and from the menu along the top of the main login window, select Yahoo Chat. Its about halfway down. If you then select the Health chat rooms, a diabetes chat room will come up. Sometimes there's no on there, and other times its busy. You can arrange to "meet" peeps there at a set time if you like.

You can also use the private chat feature and instead of just chatting with one friend, invite 2 or 3 people to a conference. The participants must all have Yahoo ID's but its free to set one up.

I used to use Yahoo Chat a lot, but just don't have the time now.

To get Yahoo Messenger, click this link and sign up for a free account if you don't already have one.
http://messenger.yahoo.com/

If you have a Yahoo email account, you can use your email address for chat, once you set it up.

Permalink Reply by Holger Schmeken on December 7, 2011 at 3:28am

I am very disappointed that the DHF ambassador pages have been suspended without warning. Here I have gathered and befriended with most users from Germany. In addition to that I have created a translation of German terms relevant to diabetes for new users from Germany. This information is not available in dictionaries. This is now all gone and if I will not get these pages back I will be hugely disappointed. I just need temporary access to the DHF Germany Embassy to save my work.

Permalink Reply by acidrock23 on December 7, 2011 at 4:38am

That's horrible! I'm sorry to hear about your lost data/ information Holger! If it is anything like Glucosurfer, I'm sure it was very useful and comprehensive. I hope someone can dig it out of whereever it's gone or, hopefully, hiding?

Permalink Reply by Holger Schmeken on December 7, 2011 at 5:39am

So far I think the account is just suspended so the data should still be available. It is not much but one page is important - sadly I will loose the contacts with the account. If the embassy program has not developed as expected then they can remove it. But at least I would have expected to be informed and warned about that. I also think that the expectations for the program were just too high. I mean what does it cost to support some ambassador accounts and what can it bring? I my view it has brought more than can be measured easily. There was an embassy for every state in the US and some countries and people could root on that. By the time we would have seen that ambassadors are planning a local Tu get-together an so forth. It still has the potential to develop momentum. This takes time and efforts and I think it is just too early to cut it now - especially by contrasting the little costs and the chances.

Permalink Reply by Holger Schmeken on December 7, 2011 at 5:44am

Now I have found the mail. It is dated from 1.12.2011 and was routed to a different mail-account than I have expected. At least I can not say that I was not informed.

Permalink Reply by Emily Walton on December 7, 2011 at 2:43pm

Hi Holger,

I believe that we have an incorrect email for you. I had emailed you about the program and received no response. Can you please email me your correct email so that we can stay in better touch? emily@diabeteshf.org.

We want to make sure that you get all of the information you need from the account, and would like to continue to help you work with people in your area. We can open the account again for you to get any information that you need. Send me an email so we can discuss how best to proceed!

I am really sorry that we sent the information to the wrong address and you were not informed ahead of time! I hope it was not terribly inconvenient. And don't worry, I didn't delete any of the information!

Permalink Reply by acidrock23 on December 7, 2011 at 3:09pm

That's awesome! I love happy endings!

Permalink Reply by Linda G on December 7, 2011 at 3:25pm

Here as well Holger....got a 1 minute notice. Fortunately, I opted to stop my greeting of new members at the time of the notification, and popped over to the Canada Embassy....otherwise I would have lost a whole lot of pics and info.
There should have been a heads up long before the plug was pulled!

Permalink Reply by Andreina Davila on December 7, 2011 at 2:55pm

Hello Everybody,

Thank you so much for your feedback. We are going to spend sometime thinking on ways we can incorporate as much as we can into the new redesign. Please bear with us, as we are constrained by the platform the communities run. There are some things we can’t easily do, like organizing the groups by categories (like the forum). However, we will try our best to think outside the box to see what we can come up with.

The two main goals are that we need better organization and less clutter on the home page. We will work on those to the best of our abilities, but keep in mind that the nature of TuDiabetes is pretty organic and it is not built for the kind of structure some of you would like to see. In some ways we have to embrace the Chaos ☺ However, there must be a way to make the information more accessible.

* One important feature where we plan to concentrate our efforts in on improving the Left Side Navigation (note pages by topic), we see it is possible we could archive some sense of structured content there. This is a long term project that will keep going after we finish implementing the new desigm. In the near future, we plan to revive the old Content Creating Committee, to help us recognize key information in the community and organize it by topics (type 1, type 2, etc). Join the new Content Committee to help us on this process.

* We will also work on simplifying the home page. We are evaluating options. We might take some features out, or move them around. Stay tuned!

I will proceed to close this discussion soon, if you have more feedback (something that is not currently expressed here) please write to me at andreina@diabeteshf.org, subject: Ideas for TD redesign.

Thanks again for helping us build TuDiabetes everyday!

Andreina D.

Permalink Reply by Aimee on December 8, 2011 at 1:58pm

I would like to be able to 'Like' a specific comment and not just a post. This probably does not answer your question though...

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