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This is it I guess! Time to hang up my hat and let the new guys do their thing. I’m not really leaving the site, so I’ll still be around. I’ll just be a regular joe! I can peacefully fade into...

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And his little dog too! (Side note: I’m going to turn off comments on this for purely practical reasons. Having thousands of page requests returning a tree with hundreds of comments in it each t...

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I already see word spreading through the grapevine, so I might as well make it official. Things are moving forward towards new management very quickly. You are probably going to be seeing a lot...

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Turning off comments on this one. I won’t shut down the site without following through on discussions about handing off the site to trusted community members. I don’t expect it to be a quick thi...

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Oh my. This is hard. How do I even start? Hopefully you are sitting down for this. All right, here it goes… Prosebox is closing down. I’m sorry. I can’t do this any more. If you’ve noticed mor...

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Yay! OK, I think that’s it for problems resulting from replacing the web server, with the exception of some really weird stuff happening when things are first starting up. OK I’m out. :)

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The profile image upload is still not working, so I’m going to take the site down (very very) briefly for a little maintenance. I’ll do it in about 15 minutes, so please back up anything you are...

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I have to admit, with the weird issues I was fighting last night, I wasn’t entirely confident the site would keep chugging along. I’d start up the app server and the first request would hang for...

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I’m still trying to figure out what is slowing some things down but it’s at least working. I think. I apologize for the site being down for such a prolonged period! I’m just happy to at least ...

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The site runs on https://www.prosebox.net, but I also have the https://www.prosebox.com domain. I seem to have let that .com certificate expire and have had a couple of people mention they’re se...

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In 20 minutes I’m going to take the site down for some maintenance (database is growing and needs some more space to grow into). Please save anything you’re working on before then, or outside of...

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UPDATE: Well, the discussion on this entry has taken an unexpected turn. I never intended to stir up controversy here. I just wanted to promote something that was completely voluntary for those...

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UPDATE: Done. :) The outage earlier today reminded me that I need to set up some better server monitoring, something I’ve been meaning to do anyway. I’ll be doing that in the next few minutes. ...

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My apologies for the Internal Server Error messages. I let the database server disk get filled up (not good) because backups were failing (also not good). Got the clogged pipes cleaned out and ...

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If you saw security errors in your browser earlier today, my fault. Fixed now. I installed a new certificate, old one just expired. I meant to do that a couple of weeks ago and got completely d...

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I have a huge favor to ask of the community. It should take maybe two minutes, tops. Would you please take this survey: Prosebox Customer Survey I know I’ve mentioned implementing a paid accoun...

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After leaving a completely decorative and non-functional search box on the site since the redesign, much to the chagrin of many users, I have finally fixed and ported over the user search. There...

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Well, I couldn’t entirely leave the site alone. I had SEO (search engine optimization) on my mind. Since https://www.prosebox.net has three years of history attached to it, it seemed kind of si...

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More progress! I think this is slightly better than the last version. Unnecessary carousel feature gone, it shouldn’t show you old updates you’ve already dismissed every time a new one pops up....

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Based on some feedback and my own personal experience, I decided to split out an existing setting into two settings: Show main background color of other users to me Show side bars of other us...

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Add “On This Day” feature Add choice between serif and sans-serif fonts Add option to turn off viewing of other’s personalization Fix some font inconsistencies Styling fixes based on some fe...

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I pushed out a few changes based on recent feedback. Highlights: Prosebox logo is now smaller than the Death Star Shortcut icons in the top right corner are bigger, require less laser precision...

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Serif font haters, rejoice! I may have missed a place or two (like this entry editor, it needs a little work anyway) but there’s now a choice to personalize the main entry font, serif or sans-se...

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This is a big one I wanted to add before the option to use prosebox.net goes away. On prosebox.com: There is a checkbox under settings: Show customized backgrounds to me If you check this box,...

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People keep asking, so instead of trying to address individual comments, I’ll just write a quick update. As it stands, the following things are missing from the beta site: (prosebox.com) Notif...

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