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Load problems fixed? We can onoly hope!
17:43:44 PST -0800 05:43 PM
I worked with the banner script's creator to remove some features we weren't using that may have been causing some extra server load. Let's hope that the exchange will stop blipping out now!
I also noticed that the back end of the site was looking kind of funky and fixed that up as well.
Please let us know if there are any problems!
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Site down.
07:32:49 PST -0800 07:32 AM
Hey guys,
Apparently we are hosting so many banners and impressions that even Dreamhost is having problems with all our activity. The site will be up and down for awhile while we get this sorted out.
If we have to move to a more expensive server, I'll be opening up pay-for-impressions to help cover hosting costs. What do you think about that? Good idea? Bad idea?
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Site hiccups and what is NOT a G-rated comic
10:36:23 PST -0800 10:36 AM
Some of you may have noticed Rubifruit was "down" for awhile. It actually had been moved to exchange.rubifruit.com in order to make room on rubifruit.com for us to start building a web comic hosting solution. The links and exchange kept working, but if you visited rubifruit.com instead of rubifruit.com/exchange, you would see Wordpress Mu being hacked. However, that project is currently on hold, and we have temporary forwards in place to point everyone to exchange.rubifruit.com.
Please update the code and links on your sites to reflect this change, for we cannot guarantee that they will keep working when the forwards come down.
We apologize for any confusion this may have caused!
Now, let's talk about R-rated Comics
The other day I received a complaint from a G-rated children's comic that a banner showing on her site lead to a site with warnings of adult content. I checked the link, and indeed, someone had put this site in G, PG, and R comics categories. Figuring they must have misunderstood, I edited their categories and dropped them a quick note to let them know what had happened and request they not do it again.
And they sent me a long snippy letter about how nudity is not R-rated.
Let me break some important stuff down for anyone who isn't with the program yet:
1. We have a G-category to keep the kiddies in the kiddie pool and out of the adult swim. I personally don't care is you have naked men playing with each other's genitals all over your site, but a parent might get really pissed about it and take it out on the childrens' comic site unfortunate enough to get caught carrying that banner.
Hence, any material a parent might find offensive, even if hidden behind warning signs, does not belong in the G-rated category. This is for the best of the entire exchange.
2. Being a part of this exchange is a privilege, not a right. It's foolish to argue with the admins when you've done something to endanger other people's sites. Signing up does not guarantee your place here. We reject people for having poor content and bad attitudes as well as doing things that jeopardize others' readerships.
3. That said, after trying to wade through this long rebuttal, I felt that the person writing it couldn't be trusted to properly categorize their comics in the future, and I removed their account so that this will never happen again.
In the future, I will make it extra super apparent that anything a parent might not approve of cannot go in the G category.
CLARIFICATION: Homosexual characters and love stories that don't involve sexual situations are fine in the G-category. Even if some people might get upset over that, we believe in fostering acceptance through media and feel that there is nothing perverse, deviant or unwholesome about homosexuality. If any site owners do not feel this way, perhaps they need to find a more narrow-minded exchange. Just in case anyone was curious about it.
Thank you for your patience with the site moving. And do welcome some of our awesome new members!
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Links listings are working!
12:25:15 PDT -0700 12:25 PM
Thanks to everyone who reported a bug on the links listing page. The links are now all working perfectly, and you can check out all the awesome rubifruits! So grab your beverage of choice and sit back for a couple hours of webcomics surfing.
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New button size.
21:25:12 PDT -0700 09:25 PM
We've added a 117 by 30 pixel button to the sizes you can choose from now. Even if you don't display that size, you should upload one so it can appear on sites that choose to display the button code. Did you know that you can transfer impressions between banners? Check it out under Manage Resources on your Control Panel when you sign in!
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