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I'm the burning bush. I'm the burning fire. I'm the bleeding volcano.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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My Final Site Update. Love, Simple Mind in Site Updates
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...
Isn't Josh DREAMY??? in Site Updates
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...
I'm Retiring But the Site is Not in Site Updates
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...
Follow-Up in Site Updates
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...
The Update You Never Wanted in Site Updates
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...
Profile Image Uploader Fixed in Site Updates
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. :)
Quick Site Maintenance in Site Updates
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...
Oh good. We're still going. in Site Updates
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...
What an insane week. in Site Updates
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 ...
Quick Update in Site Updates
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...
Maintenance in Site Updates
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...
Follow up in Site Updates
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...
Minor maintenance in Site Updates
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. ...
Database was down, site back up again in Site Updates
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 ...
Security errors resolved in Site Updates
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...
Prosebox survey in Site Updates
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...
Oh, Blessed Search... in Site Updates
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...
Full Circle in Site Updates
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...
We have site updates again in Site Updates
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....
A few little things in Site Updates
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...
Beta Site Checklist in Site Updates
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...
Beta style updates in Site Updates
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...
Beta Update in Site Updates
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...
Show custom backgrounds to me, or not. in Site Updates
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,...
State of the Beta in Site Updates
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...
