Another New Server, but hey, what's wrong with that?

Posted October 5, 2011

Have you noticed?  Our site has been getting slower and slower over the last few weeks so we took the decision to move to a bigger, better, faster server with more RAM.  The transfer took around ten minutes during which time the site was down ...

Our New Adverts

Posted September 16, 2011

You may have noticed that we have recently done away with the dating site adverts which used to adorn our pages.  We've taken a bit of a chance because although they didn't really fit in with the image we are trying to portray, they did pay for ...

A Big Favour To Ask My Girlfriends Here...

Posted June 13, 2011

You may have seen me asking for the support of my girlfriends here in my recent status updates.  Well the time has come and here's the favour...   You know I've spent over a decade working tirelessly on this community and I've also worked ...

The Life Of A Social Network Administrator

Posted May 11, 2011

I don't know if you've ever thought about it but the life of a social network administrator is quite demanding.  You have to know about a lot of things, from email strategy to SEO, accounting, marketing and server administrating, from forum ...

Has anyone else noticed The Trib was actually sent in error

Posted April 22, 2011

Has anyone else noticed that The Trib was actually sent in error, before it was finished and ready to send out?  I'm actually hopping mad because a developer was supposed to be fixing several major problems with our newsletter software and by ...

The Continuing Saga of the "Soft Launch"

Posted April 10, 2011

And so dear reader, the "Soft Launch" continues.  We had hoped that we could have a big new site launch party in a blaze of publicity this weekend but alas, it was not to be. The trouble is down to the membership subscription system which appears ...

We've done it !!!

Posted April 5, 2011

Hooray!  We've finally done it and I'm soooo pleased!!! Our new community site is online at last.  It was a bit shaky to start with and we had a short time when the site got so slow it nearly crashed altogether, but we fixed that and it's ...

Why do I bother?

Posted March 22, 2011

I sometimes wonder why I bother at all.  Every time I've said we are just a day or two away from making this site live, I have been scuppered by one huge problem or another.   It seemed like we were all set to go a few weeks back and I told ...

So close to launch

Posted March 2, 2011

We are so close to launch now.  I feel a bit like the Launch Director at Kennedy Space Center.  Our new site seems to be good to go, sitting on Pad 39A with the public still being kept a safe distance away.  But before we do anything rash, ...

No pain, no gain

Posted February 17, 2011

Get ready for some disruption girls.  I know I keep saying this site is almost ready for launch.  Well it really is... almost.   Our developers are still putting in the billing module (you know, the one I said was still just a spec in my ...