josh (he/him)
President of the Mochi fanclub. Always available at [email protected]
When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
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Help me improve PB's navigation in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, I love this time of year. The weather’s starting to get chilly, and pumpkin flavored everything has taken over (if you’re in north america ;) ). If you have any suggestions for Moch...
Panda sightings in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, You’re not crazy, we had some downtime Monday night that lasted through Tuesday morning. Sorry about that, and thanks for your patience! If you ever notice the site is down, you can...
Those annoying ads in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, I’ve been getting a few messages here and there about some of the ads that are showing up being annoying or full screen takeovers of some kind. I take this kind of thing super serio...
Subscriptions are live!! in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, Huge huge day today many months (years?) in the making! That’s right! Prosebox subscriptions are here. What does that entail? You can read more in my recent site update. You can sub...
Let's talk about subscriptions in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, I hope all of you in the US had a lovely holiday, and those of you outside of the US had a wonderful weekend. Mochi and I were visiting family in the midwestern US, and I had the di...
Server maintenance in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, Currently dealing with some emergency server issues, so the site will briefly be going down for a few minutes this evening at 5:30 PST Hoping this is a temporary thing. Wish me luc...
Who is Prosebox? Your survey results in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, I wanted to share some of the results that came out of the survey I posted a few weeks ago. There were 512 responses, which is REALLY impressive!! Thanks so much to those of you tha...
A big welcome to the DE community in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, As you may have noticed, we have several new people that have joined over the past day or so with “DE_” in their name. These are members of a seventeen year old (!) diary community ...
Spam attack! in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, If you’ve been on the front page in the past hour, you’ve probably noticed the crazy number of Korean spam posts. I’ve cleaned them out for now, but I’m confident they’ll be back. ...
Entry search is live! in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, I’m pleased to announce that entry search is now available to all PB users! You can find it waiting for you here and under the “My Prosebox” dropdown. You’ll notice that there are t...
Autosave, Ads, Alliteration in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, How is it March already? Where did those other months go? What even is 2019? I wanted to bring you all in the loop on what’s been going on the past few months. Things have been both...
A more mobile-friendly Prosebox in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, Whoa, two site updates in a week! PB’s on fire! If you’re writing a new entry or creating a new book, you might notice that the design of the privacy settings has changed a bit: I ...
New entry backup is live! in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, I’m super excited to announce the launch of another new feature: New entry backup. In my last update I called this feature “Auto-saving drafts” but as I worked on the design, it en...
Onwards and upwards in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, How is it already December?! These last few months have really flown by. NoJoMo was great! Well done to all of you that kept with it (and a solid tip of the hat to those that made ...
NoJoMo 2018 in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, Happy NoJoMo! It looks like it’s been a few years since the official journal has been active, so I thought it would be fun to use a site update for the prompts. Hopefully that will...
A bugfix, an improvement, and an announcement in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, Let’s go down the list! (Edit: Have a feature request? Great. Check out my site update here where I talk about my plans for Prosebox for the next few years) The bugfix: I’m happy to...
The server is extremely fixed now in Site Updates (Josh)
So, funny story. I’m traveling at the moment (hello from Denver!) and my email checking has been intentionally rare. Trying to get off the grid for a few days. But let’s be honest: PB I can’t qu...
Downtime tonight and a call for testers in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, We’ll be taking the site down tonite at 8PM central for about an hour to fix the issues you’ve all been experiencing with comments. We have a fix in place on our staging server and ...
You can now edit comments! in Site Updates (Josh)
Surprise!! MD really came through this week and now we have our first new feature! Happy Friday everyone. Have a great weekend. Update (edit, ha): We’re working through a few known issues at the ...
A roadmap for the future of Prosebox in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, I’ve been wanting to write this entry for a few months now, but between the server issues and starting an intense new job, it’s been hard to find the time. But! I need a break, so t...
The sloths have been appeased in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, As I’m sure you’ve noticed, PB is feeling sooooo much better today. The site was down for about an hour as we grabbed a snapshot to be safe and then upgraded. Here’s how performance...
The server is filled with sloths in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey again everyone, Oh my god the site has been so slow lately! IT. IS. SO. FRUSTRATING!!!! WE WERE CELEBRATING AND THEN THINGS STARTED GETTING BAD AGAIN AND AAAAAAAAAAA Ok, enough yelling. Whew...
If at first you don't succeed.. in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, You’ve probably noticed the site going up and down and being pretty slow over the past few weeks. I feel your pain, and I really appreciate you being patient. We’re trying! The push...
A bit of scheduled downtime in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, More improvements are on the way! The developer will be working on the server this Wednesday at 10PM CST and the site will be in maintenance (mochi) mode. With luck things will go s...
LET'S CELEBRATE in Site Updates (Josh)
Hey everyone, happy Friday! I have exciting news to share: (drumroll please..) THE SERVER IS FIXED AND STABLE!! WE (YOU) DID IT!! After a week of testing the fixes on our shiny new staging ser...
