TOPAZ software, the one that hosts five out of seven PLoS journals (ONE, Pathogens, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Genetics and Computational Biology) has just been upgraded. There is not much new in the terms of functionality visible to readers, but the upgrade should greatly increase the stability of the sites and the speed of loading of papers, comments and other pages.
Give it a test-drive: search and browse papers, download PDFs, post comments/notes/ratings, send trackbacks, and if you notice any glitches, let us know exactly where you were, what you were trying to do, and what happened (there is usually a "contact" or "report" button somewhere on each page, but you can also just e-mail me).
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On Friday there will be some upgrading of the site so commenting will be off for a while, and possibly, comments will be stuck in moderation. That is all thank you very much.
Hear me, Ubuntu-using brothers and sisters! Never use the on-line upgrade option to switch to a newer version of the operating system!
ScienceBlogs is getting some back-end work done this evening, with yet another server/ MT upgrade. This is intended to help with the frequent timeout problems that bloggers and commenters have been having.