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  1. Reworking the Submit plugin

    In Hotaru 0.8.2, everything revolved around the Submit plugin because it did all the page handling and provided plugin hooks for other plugins to hook into.

    In the latest version, I've split Submit into SB_Base for page handling and SB_Submit for the 3-step submission process. Since Submit was the core of the social bookmarking suite, it's taking quite a while to rework it into something a little more logical and less frightening for plugin developers. Today, I managed to complete most ...
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  2. Progress Update July 5th 2009

    On the visual front, there's little to report, but I've been working hard on cleaning up some of the code, reorganizing files into more logical sections, and fixing bugs as they've come up.

    Two recent additions are a Submit plugin and a Maintenance page.

    The Submit plugin is currently very basic. You click a link to submit a story, paste in a url, let Ajax find the page's title for you, which you can edit before submitting. All submitted links appear on the front page ...