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Edit: Yes, for real this time.

After a great deal of struggling, I'm pleased to announce that Dreamhart.org now has a searchable directory listing for otherkin up and running. To add your information to it, first you have to register for the website. Then, edit your profile: you'll find all of the Directory information in its own section, so you can choose exactly what you want to display. You'll also find a radio box that lets you decide whether or not you want to display your information in the directory. I've made very very certain that if you check "Do Not Display", your information will never show up in the directory by any means; not as part of regular display, not as part of search results, and not even if you type the user-id in by hand in the url for individual profiles.

I believe I've tested everything fairly thoroughly in the course of implementing this new system, but as always if you run into any bugs please let me know. Also, if you think any fields should be included that aren't, let me know. I can't guarantee that everything people want will be included (I don't actually know how to program in PHP, I know just enough to be able to read and edit someone else's code), but I may be able to work something out.

Edit: One other small thing, I've now added another option for people who want to be slightly more private about their data.  You can now set it to display only to logged-in users of this website.  I will warn that registration is open, and anyone can register, though.  It should prevent indexing by google and other search engines/bots, however.

Please note as well, privacy settings for the directory do not affect visibility of your profile on the forums.

Arethinn said:

I can add myself and see the contents of the directory (all three of us, whee!) but nothing is displayed when I click on an individual entry link (such as you or me). I just get the Dreamhart.org header with the Main, About Me, etc. menu and then it stops generating the page – no footer or anything.

It looks like i accidentally borked something when I was setting up the feature to display to logged in users only… should be fixed now, was just a mistake caused by copying and pasting something wrong.  Let me know if you see any other problems with it, ok?
 

And sure, there's just three of us there now, but give it time.  I think it'll grow on folks.  

So, what do folks think of the new otherkin directory so far?  Any problems with it?  Anything you'd like to see changed or added?  I did have to go in and impose maximum size limits on photos just to keep profile pages readable, but so far things seem to be going well from my perspective.  I know we've only got a few profiles on there so far, but when I compare it with the original Otherkin Directory hosted on Miaren Crowsdaughter's website before it migrated to otherkin.net, I think we're doing fairly well for just starting out.