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Feb 02, 2007
Amusing searches
by mike (Mike Macgirvin)

It's not fair for me to have all the fun reading the website logs. So I've built a page to let others see some of the amusing searches which have led people to this site.

Just go to the new refer page.  Well OK, here's the fine print... There can be some pretty vulgar stuff in the logs, so your account needs to have a non-zero 'Tolerance' setting in the profile to access it.

And the only way this can happen is if you actually have an account and are logged in. Also I am only including search results, and not links from other sites. Sometimes these links can have names and passwords and session ID's and stuff in them and I don't want to compromise somebody's identity just so y'all can have a quick laugh.

The one that really got me laughing today was:

sheet music star wars on the alto saxaphone free nude

 

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Jan 16, 2007
Status update 15-JAN-2007
by mike (Mike Macgirvin)

It's crunch time at work so I've neglected to give a website update recently. Here are some things you may have missed if you haven't visited recently...

'Sharing' is now called 'Views'. It's hard to get the 'Share' concept across in thirty words or less. It's a personalized view of a website.

The entire comment interface was revamped to allow for comments on multiple object types. Instead of just weblog and forum articles, you may now also post comments on photos and profiles.

Profile viewing has improved, adding some more community features. It's also been linked with the buddylist stuff.

A lot of this stuff was here already in more obscure forms - I've just exposed it a bit more.  

Improved the name generators. The basic name generator will also do a website lookup and see if the domain is available. I've also added some options so you can lookup names by length - in case you're trying to find a catchy domain name that's less than 8 characters. Good luck... but the tool will show some interesting candidates. I've also added the same suite of options to the stage name generator, which additionally can use a predefined first or last name.

The name generators by default will not show adult terms. You can change your profile tolerance to add these to the mix. The profile tolerance may also be adjusted to include racier random quotes on the page footer.

Profiles have started to take on a bit of a 'myspace' appearance, though it's questionable how far down this path I'm willing to take it.  They will use your view/(share) theme and avatars so you can tailor the look a bit. I've also added article and comment counts in a few places so you can see at a glance who is a contributor (all three or four of them) and who ain't.

Oh, and I'll mention the music player also. I've got a bit more work before you can upload your own playlist, but that will be coming shortly. I've populated a few cool web radio channels for your listening pleasure.  

I will now return you to your regularly scheduled program.  

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Jun 11, 2006
Changleog - June 10, 2006
by mike (Mike Macgirvin)

 

Photo albums now have dates on them. The photo page is now sorted a) by number of votes, and then b) by reverse creation date. This puts new and/or popular stuff on page 1 instead of the oldest stuff first.

Since the avatar collections are shared amongst 'regular' and 'adult' websites, I've moved the adult oriented avatars to a separate collection with a tag to indicate that they are adult oriented. The site you are viewing this message on isn't configured as an adult site, which is a long way of saying that the inappropriate images have vanished from here. 

All the teeny little cartoon avatars have been removed. I'm trying to standardize on 100x100 avatars. If you had an avatar in one of these other collections, I mapped it to the closest match I could find in the 'large' collection. If my choice isn't right for you, feel free to change it - or you can always upload your own avatar.

Added the top rated photo to the front page. Also removed some of the forum/weblog stuff (Top Articles, Recent Comments, Recent articles, Categories, etc.) from the menubar when you're not looking at articles. This is a performance issue - so that we're not wasting time looking up articles (which you obviously aren't looking at) every time you vote on a photorater page.

Check to see if new comments have been added since your last login - and 'open' the 'Recent Comments' menu if that's the case. 

If a certain number of people rates an image as offensive it won't be shown, but the site admin(s) can reset the counter and also block images completely - this is to reduce mischief. The exception is the top rated photo on the front page -  since this has higher visibility, offensive ratings have a more immediate impact.

Image uploads - now preserves the last used server folder name so you can upload to the same folder repeatedly instead of being required to change the folder name each time.

Weblog URL's now have 'weblog' added to the path (i.e. sitename/weblog/mike instead of just sitename/mike). I mentioned this change was necessary several months ago but finally got around to doing it.  This was to prevent a naming conflict if somebody chose something like 'forums' or 'tags' as a username; since these are already used as system paths and could have made their weblog inaccessible. The old paths will still work - provided they don't conflict with system paths. If that's the case the system path will win.

There will likely be a few more bug fixes and useability enhancements, but this concludes the development phase of version 3.0. 

 

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Cheryl (Cheryl)
June 16, 2006 02:09
Cheryl
Maybe I misunderstand the meaning of concluded because I see a lot of new stuff. Censorship, tolerance? What's that all about?

mike (Mike Macgirvin)
June 16, 2006 02:43
[*TOP MEMBER*] mike
Semantics... I've in fact concluded development of version 3.0. What you see now is version 3.1

:-)

I was going to roll this up in the next changelog, but you've forced my hand. I've added a lot of features which let folks put lots of stuff on the site. If we ever get more than a handful of users, the task of moderating all the content could get to be huge. I'm going to turn this job over to the community (that's you). If you see that somebody has posted something clearly offensive, any member can censor it. It's just like voting, except you're voting against it rather than for it.

But you can also choose your personal tolerance level if this kind of stuff doesn't bother you. The default is zero tolerance. If something is censored even once, you won't see it - unless you raise your tolerance level.

I'd recommend no more than 5. If five people on this site have complained about something, it's pretty raunchy - and it's compounded, because once there's one vote for censorship, only the tolerant folks will see it. If *they're* complaining, then it's pretty bad.


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May 09, 2006
Mac's Music
by mike (Mike Macgirvin)

Mac's Music appears to be a legitimate business enterprise in the UK. Since I'm getting a lot of search hits for it, it's probably best not to use that site (macsmusic.com) for the gateway to my adult website. So I've shuffled things a bit. macsmusic.com now leads you here. If you're feeling a bit on the randy side, and don't want one of my really raunchy URL's showing, you'll want to visit x.macsmusic.com, which is another world entirely. 

 

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phentermine
May 21, 2006 09:27
phentermine
Hi all good site

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