APPENDED TUES 1:00AM EST
The image localizer & uploader is back (as it was) on the profile page for those who had it before. Use it when you wish to localize an image here. Is being finessed and tested to allow sorting as well. For now, v.1 back, so as not to make you wait for v.2.
( Nothing with an R rating please, or anything identifiable/personal like your car with a license plate. Thank you. )
EDITED TUES 1:00AM EST
Just added and as requested.
Established members with 1000+ stars (for now) will now see an additional section at the bottom of other profiles …. which allow you to alert an admin in urgent matters. Please use your best judgement. Admin(s) will be alerted by SMS and will receive the text immediately. Response times may vary of course depending on time of day and availability. Thanks very much.
APPENDED 10:51AM EST
Some time ago, a few members had reported they appeared to be logged out at random, but when clicking around, they weren’t really. Like an anomaly on certain pages. So last week we re-implemented a “session killer” that ends a visit after 48 hours if you didn’t log out.
The rule is… “if you stay logged in for 48 hours, your visit will expire, and you should log in again.”
A bank website usually kills a visit within 15 minutes. Ours is a very relaxed 48 hours. Just to make sure sessions don’t last forever. It’s a good practice.
So if any long time established members have seen no difference, please leave a short reply below. Would like to know if the weird thing is still happening. Thank you.
—— General FYI Notes ——
Hello and good morning fellow and gents. Some general FYIs.
( This thread is sticky just for this weekend. )
OK First of all. Welcome to new members. +30K came sooner than expected. Wow. A pleasure to welcome you. This FYI is for all. No replies to this are required or expected, and it will be removed after Monday.
THE CONTACT PAGE
The contact form is temporarily unavailable and may come back intermittently for the rest of the day until we solve a problem. Recent use by spammers have flooded our mailbox with these stupid random emails…. and we require some time to sift through them to find the legit ones. Any recent messages by members & visitors will be addressed going back to Feb 1 ( those we missed ) and then we will sort through all messages prior to that. We require a few hours – maybe even going into tomorrow. Priority will be given to support requests first…… then new members….. and everyone else. Thanks very much.
We kindly ask for patience on this because we are limited to available time. I’ll be dedicating the whole weekend to this myself, but I will be taking healthy breaks to go about my life.
THE NEW SMS ALERTS FEATURE
This works great(!) and thanks for the few who have used it. Received them right away , although may have been on the road or in meetings at the time. A few need to be addressed – like one from Gargamel and a couple of others, but you should know it’s working.
Will be incorporating the email alerts (which you are used to using) into it as well. Then members can decide the level of urgency. This will be made very clear, and further finessed. More on this before the weekend is out.
Use the SMS feature ( in the forums sidebar on the right) for any urgent problem this weekend which requires immediate attention.
LOCKOUTS
As a security precaution, we have a feature in place that detects unsuccessful login attempts. Five unsuccessful attempts made too quickly can result in a temporary block for one hour. In most cases, you can try again an hour later.
This does a great job of stopping bots and belligerent traffic, but new members need to know it’s not really a problem when this happens. We clear and lift all blocks about 1-3 times a week anyway.
ELSEWHERE
• Generally try to avoid any drama, but it’s unfortunate that @MisandryToday was (is temporarily? ) suspended from twitter. Not aware of the details.
• Have some hilarious news for gents in the Zoom and plan to join this evening at 11PM EST.
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If anything else comes up this weekend… will append to this post at top ^^^ and post a broadcast notice with a link to revisit this again.
Very big thanks.
If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.
ghost 1 year, 11 months ago.
