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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
9:17:00 PM EDT

Journals Install Tonight: ASA Release for International Users

Hi folks -- sorry for the late notice: The Journals team will be doing an install starting at midnight ET tonight (so, midnight Wednesday into early morning Thursday), for the benefit of our international Journals users; primarily, aol.de (Germany), aol.fr (France) and aol.co.uk (um, UK).

Outside of a possible 20-30 minute outage, there shouldn't be any impact on US users.

The install is for the ASA Release (ASA stands for "Audience Services Agreement"); a while back, AOL sold off the access portions of the European businesses, and as part of the deal, we agreed to do a few things.

For Journals, this basically means:

* International users will see slightly different branding on the hats (the nav bars at the top of the pages). As a bonus, this should hopefully fix any login problems the UK folks have been having.

* Also, the countries that didn't have the Userplane Webrecorder turned on will now have it, so they'll be able to record Webcam video directly to their blog entries.

That's about it -- there's some other backend stuff that users won't see. More tomorrow as needed.

Thanks -- Joe



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  • #3 Comment from pharmolo
    6/28/07 7:56 AM | Permalink
    One problem remains: clicking "Add album" results in a 500-error: Internal Server Error

    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

    Please contact the server administrator, [no address given] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
  • #2 Comment from pharmolo
    6/28/07 6:27 AM | Permalink
    The sign-in problems ceased last week, Joe. Thanks for update.
  • #1 Comment from leonamccann
    6/27/07 9:26 PM | Permalink
    Hey, Joe we are also adding the ability to upload a video from your computer.
    Add Video will not have 3 tabs, the new one is My Computer.
    The maximum video file size that you can upload is 15 MB.

    Leona