I've improved the "Add Image" page so that IlohaBlog can now automatically create thumbnails and scale images. You can also upload larger images now, as long as the scaled version is less than the size limit. Here's an example post.

A word on "nofollow" (which Google suggested as a solution to comment spam). Joining the bandwagon, IlohaBlog will insert "nofollow" tags to links in comments, although only logged in members can post links. In general, restrictions on comment posting seem to have eliminated comment spamming on IlohaBlog, except for...

Trackback spamming. I've noticed a few trackback spams, but that loophole has now been plugged, and the same non-member restrictions are applied to trackbacks (i.e. no links anywhere, and IPs are shown). The originating blog's URL is inserted at the bottom of the comment text, so you can still get to it if you really want to. I decided not to just use nofollow and hope they'll stop, because I have a feeling that spammers will indescriminately ping trackbacks anyway.

IlohaBlog can now accept trackback pings. The "Trackback" link added in post footers point to the ping URL for that post. Trackbacks appear as comments, with the URL to the trackback originator's URL, and "Trackback: " prepended to title/subject.

I've added a comment moderation feature. Basic idea is that people can mod down spam, and pick up points as they do so. At first, everybody starts with 1 point, which means they can take one point off a comment (which are given 2 + poster's score = 3 or more points). If they mod down a comment that's already been modded down, they get 0.2 points (i.e. bonus points for modding down actual spam). When a comment's score goes down to 0, it gets removed.

In order to implement this feature, I had to add some visitor tracking via cookies. Since cookies are supposed to be good, I decided to use the same cookies to remember visitor's identities. That is, if you enter your name and URL once when posting a comment, it'll remember so that you won't have to re-enter the same info all the time.

Another minor change is that, when posting a comment, if no name is specified, the poster's perceived IP address is used.

IlohaBlog2 now supports GeoLocation. More specifically, header elements needed to join LocalFeeds has been supported. There's a new field in the blog options page where you can enter your coordinates. Thanks to Dirvish for the suggestion.

The "recently updated blogs" list on the IlohaBlog.com front page is now live. I've also added a feedback form within the actual blogging interface (there's a new section in the "home" page).