Well, gentlemen, we’ve gone a few weeks without a spambot screwin with the site. YAY

I’m working on adding new avatars. Some people have always had issues uploading avatars. Near as I can tell, this baby works perfectly. You’ll have a personal and a blog avatar. When the change comes, find your image and upload a new avatar.

Gentlemen, things are looking more and more solid. This year could be the year we take it to the next level.

Curt

ok ya’ll. we’re in the middle of a move. you blog address are different. our posts are different. bear with me, this won’t hurt a bit.

The Situation: I’m on vacation against my will. I’m trapped in Coatesville, PA sitting around doing nothing.

What happening now: I have oodles of time to fix and hack and work on our little site. You’ve seen some of the results.

What I need from you: I need everyone to chime in here or via email. Things you like. Things you hate. Things that need to change.

Our numbers are down, but I think it’s a good thing. Half of the people who were here never wrote. I didn’t delete users, I just deleted blogs that’d been inactive for 90 days or more.  We needed the space, we needed to be optimized. If you haven’t seen a significant increase in speed over the last 2 weeks, then leave a comment. The blogs weren’t weighing us down - our platform can support 200k individual sites. The caretaking was killing us. It was taking hours to track down every error. Some people had VERY gay passwords - well, i couldn’t see them, but they got comprimised - which allowed spammers to set in and spam us to death. They were exploiting the fact that people weren’t moderating emails in groups of 200. Come on, ya’ll - thats 200+ emails someone got and just ignored. Anyone who was sitting on 200+ comment spams was never coming back anyways.

So we got our dedicated box which we don’t share with no one. I think the site about 40 solid hours from being perfectly back in shape. Pig and Miracle (M&M) have absolute control down to the command line. That’s good for us because they both have more experience with this stuff than I do.  We’re looking at Fantasy Sports - and everyone here has a chance to put some cash in their pockets. More to follow on that.

Bloging-wise: 4000 unique readers a month - with solid content and advertising - will earn you about $250 a week. Straight up, I’ve done the math. That’s money you keep for yourselves and you get free admin’ing from fellow bloggers. One guy I know - the upstart blogger - posts 3 times a week and is making bank. There’s no reason every one of us can’t do the same.

We’re moving into the hot season and everyone can do their thing.

A few folks left of their own accord and I’m happy for them. Good luck. Maintaining a blog is serious business. I you need help, feel free to email, call or text me - I’ll do what I can.

see ya on the flipside