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BTW, if enough donations come into get that lovely electric violin, I’ll try to make arrangements to play a few tunes at Camp Connell next season. If I can arrange it I know it will bring tears to your eyes… Probably not like Itzhak Perlman might touch your soul but more like listening to an old cat choke on a chicken bone… time will tell.
Here’s somebody who really knows how to play it!
To post a video it has to be on YouTube (or maybe vemo) first. Then all you have to do is past the link into your forum post like this:
After the last few long days and more success than anticipated, it just seemed appropriate 🙂 😉
FYI, every last element of the old site has been removed for security reasons. All attempts to reach any of the old locations in bigtreestech.com/home or bigtreestech.com/smf will land you on the new site’s front page.
Also fyi, with some of the measures I’ve put in place, too many attempts to go poking around looking for files inside the site without following links provided on the site, could get your IP address blocked. For example, someone could type in the url bigtreestech.com/home/admin.php… That would not be a good idea!
The new forum is much easier for old eyes to read! We appreciate everything you do —– and yes, we found the appropriate button even though it moved from the right side to the left! 🙂
I wasn’t going to do software today… but here I am, still at it. I just installed another measure to help keep the site up, running, and uncompromised.
OK, I ended up going through more than 60 registratrion requests. Two were approved, about 10 are pending verification and the rest were confirmed spammers.
The new protection system is in place… let’s just hope it works!Nope, not the canned meat.
Just since yesterday afternoon when I walked away from the computer, I have 60 user registration requests to deal with the vast majority of which are spam (unless your name happens to be TQ4cwwwrtty or the like).
Today, I’ll be getting rid of the 20 questions registration form and going to a more aggressive, behind the scenes spam checker.
If you get blocked, it may be that for some reason your IP address, email address, or username has been reported to one of the several spam databases.
Feel free to contact me if you get blocked and don’t know why.
joefyi, I started this morning at a little after 4:30am after not being able to sleep, thinking about fixes for the site.
The only thing I am going to keep working on for a while is anti-registration spam. Just since this morning I have received about a dozen very suspect registration requests, and only one that I know to be legit. I’m now on my third attempt at a spam registration blocker.
On the old BigTreesTech, it took over a year to find a solution that worked.
There ought to be a death penalty for spammers!Joe,
Completely understand about the priorities. You’ve done a great amount of work on the Big Trees Tech site. It is much appreciated.
JohnM
Thanks for the feedback,John.
The whole header area is going to get a complete makeover… someday soon. The picture up there is just a stock photo that came with the theme I’m using. For a while yet my focus is going to be on functionality. Pretty and cool will come soon 🙂
Also, as I said in one of my last posts on the old site, I have put a very high priority task on hold to make this transition. Now that the basic functionality is up and running, I need to get back to that other task. It will probably take me several weeks to get this other task done.We now also have Captcha for login, registration, and a few other places. Just simple math like one + 2 = what?
Why? Because I already got the first suspicious looking user registration request and I don’t need the headache of verifying a bunch of bogus registration requests every day.
hope you don’t mind,
joeHi Joe,
The site looks very good. Congratulations. We all owe you a great deal of gratitude.
I have a suggestion: The mountain picture at the top of the page looks nice, but it may be more meaningful to have a picture that represents the local area. Would you be willing to replace it with a scenic picture(s) from the Ebbetts Pass area taken by local photographers? You could ask for submissions and choose a new picture to highlight every month. I think your users would appreciate the ‘change of scenery’ monthly and the photographers would love the ‘exposure’ (pun intended). I’m sure you have a mountain of work to finish the new design, but would you consider a ‘photo of the month’ for the future?
Best,
JohnM
