This server is getting busier and busier every week. It’s got so busy that I’ve had to move the most popular themes offsite to Amazon S3 and put in another 2 GB of RAM on the server.
I haven’t been able to much else lately because right after the major PC crash that happened, it happened again! I’ve gone through 2 monitors, 2 hard drives and 3 OS’s (and purchased a surge protector power adapter)
Will be coming soon
I get a day free this week and I’m hoping to get it all for coding so I can put in the updates I want to do to get a handle on the amount of spam blogs being created and also some minor cosmetic changes to the daily visit list, it seems people would rather see some new commentluv sites on there rather than a top list of the most popular ones. I have some queries and code that can select the newest blogs to have joined and I will try to get some time to add it to the site after the rest is finished.
New comment policy
I can see I will have to put in a comment policy that will be displayed above the comment form due to the amount of support requests made on old posts. Only requests for support that are submitted to the support ticket system will be answered, all comments that are asking for help will be unpublished and ignored.
So sorry but if someone can’t be bothered to visit the support system and check the knowledge base then I can’t be bothered to type out an exact copy of one of it’s answers. Plus, most comments that ask for help don’t even leave an example URL or even describe the problem and I’ve found that the majority of support requests that come in via a comment on a post are related to problems that wouldn’t have happened if only the user had read the download page or viewed the knowledge base.
Feedback welcome!
I have pretty much got a handle on all the features I’ve put into the site and backend so I can start tidying up the front end and work on some tutorials and videos so if you’ve got some requests then please let me know what you’d like to see and I’ll put it on my (getting smaller) to do list…
Twitter: websiteweekend
says:
I’d pay money for your service, Andy.
I bet a lot of people would.
David Doolin´s last blog ..How a 9 Day Denial of Service Attack Affected Blog Traffic
Twitter: commentluv
says:
thanks dave! I am just about to put in the pay/request to blog mods.
Twitter: websiteweekend
says:
Excellent email.
You know, I started a list of how much software I’ve purchased over the years, and it’s a lot.
I’m happy to pay for software.
I suspect most people are, provided they get some value from it.
What most people don’t get about most “free” software is that it’s free as in Free. They think that because they didn’t pay for it, they are somehow entitled to catered to, for free.
Instead, they’re free to examine the source code themselves… =)
Dave Doolin´s last blog ..Technical Tuesday: Another Look at WordPress register_activation_hook
Twitter: commentluv
says:
thanks Dave! I’m hoping that I can continue to provide free support and services, charging for blogs is one way. I hope I don’t have to premium-only the url registration process although, if the current measures don’t bring in enough bacon to please the server gods then it might.
thanks for your feedback and support!
Finally, someone is making sense. That is one of the best ideas that I’ve come across. I’m glad you are considering poor and hobbyist bloggers like me who wouldn’t be able to afford a paid blog.
great work!!!
Diff.Thinkr´s last blog ..The World is Wierd….
Sorry to mention, this is in reference to the mail feed which mentioned the transition to a paid service but still having provision for possibly getting a free blog.
Diff.Thinkr´s last blog ..The World is Wierd….
Twitter: commentluv
says:
hehe, no problem. I see this is the last post on the newsletter so it got the replies meant for the newsletter.
I knew what you meant so thanks again!
Twitter: commentluv
says:
glad you approve!