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Summertime!

2010-05-29T18:15:17Z

Hello all! urgent here, doing jimmy a big favor by writing this entry for him. Since I'm new at this I'll try to keep this short and sweet.

If my memory serves me right I do believe jimmy is making future plans to reinstate username change tokens. Unfortunately he's got a long to-do list and I haven't heard him mention what price he would charge. jimmy will try to keep you guys updated about it ~~or I'll badger him enough about it until he does, lol~~.

As far as I know, server status is fine and have been backlogged. In other words it should be smooth driving, folks.

Also, if you have any means of helping us promote this website we would greatly appreciate it. Of course we don't have any money to give you but a pat on your back should do, right? ;P

Last but not least, we appreciate all our users here. Each of you make this place feel like a second home. If you have any problems regarding this website please notify jimmy immediately.

That's everything. Have a fun and safe Memorial Day weekend and a great summer! :D

Happy New Year

2010-01-10T23:09:02Z

A Happy New Year to everyone! We hope every had a fun and safe New Years, we sure did. I hope everyone has noticed how much smoother and hopefully snappier Scribbld has been running since our transition to the new server provided to us by CrystalTech. Nothing much else to report, however one of our dear admin's morgan is leaving us to head off to a new adventure across the country. She'll be training in California for horse back riding and will be gone until the end of the Spring 2010, so it'll just be me working on the servers and such. If anyone is familiar with Perl, Javascript, or CSS we could certainly use a hand! Anyone also familiar with the LJ codebase is definitely in high demand.

As a thank you for a fun, bumpy, crazy 2009 we'd like to offer 5 free 3 month paid accounts to the first 5 people who comment on this entry. Just leave a comment with the name of the journal you'd like to have paid status on.

We've started up scribbld_top5 again so be sure to nominate someone or yourself!

Thank you and Happy New Year from Scribbld xoxoxo

jimmy & morgan

Hello December 2009!

2009-12-02T18:52:36Z

UPDATE: Interested in a free 6 month Paid Account?! Check out this entry for more information!

Wow, so that was a bit of a bumpy ride this last week and we certainly apologize for the downtime. We're now on a brand new shiny server which has been graciously provided by CrystalTech. We certainly recommend using them if you're looking for a web host or even your own dedicated server! You can read more information at system if you're looking for the nitty gritty.

That said, we're all back up and running at full speed! As mentioned on our temporary Scribbld site, if you've got a Paid Account we'd love to compensate you for the time we were down, so please create a new support thread in our support queue so we can make sure you get an extra month!

Please also report any issues to our support queue as well so we can work with you to resolve any issues. At this time, everything should be working as before.

We hope everyone has a safe, fun and awesome holiday season!

xoxoxo
morgan && jimmy

Remember , remember the 5th of November

2009-11-09T07:21:44Z

Happy November everyone! Nothing new to post as usual. We've still got 10 Permanent accounts for sale, $100 a pop. Leave a comment or email me if you want one. This is going towards the new server. ktnxbi.

October!! Happy Halloween!!

2009-10-09T08:45:20Z

I absolutely love Halloween! It's one of the most amazing "holidays" ever!

WHO ELSE LOVES HALLOWEEEEEEN!?!?

Nothing else to report...I thought about updating the code base on Scribbld, but it'd like break shit and I don't have time to fix it.

September 2009 News

2009-09-06T18:27:30Z

I've got nothing to report :) I just hope everyone is well. As usual, I'm shocked at how time is flying by! If anyone has anything news worthy let me know (ANYTHING) and I'll update this post!

August 2009 News

2009-08-10T13:56:37Z

Hey everyone,

We had a semi-rough July. One of the power lines got corroded which led to a fair amount of downtime this month. The power line issue has been resolved, but in doing so, they accidently snipped the Internet line. We have a quick fix in place, but at some point the line will need to be replaced with something more permanent. We do not have a set date on when this is going to happen at the moment. Watch system for more information about this.

Not much else to report at the moment.

Thanks and we hope everyone is having an awesome summer! :)

OHAI July!

2009-07-01T23:54:26Z

Hey everyone!

Of course we had to start off July with a bit of a bump, but operations have resumed as normal and we shouldn't be having any more issues.

That said, we're not bringing in enough revenue at the moment, for this project to be very worthwhile to me. We the staff at Scribbld dump an ungodly amount of time into developing, supporting and working on this site, and not one account has been purchased in I can't even tell you how long. This isn't to say we're not grateful to the people who do purchase accounts and such and help us with the site, but this site has become quite the job. I love doing it, I love most of you all, but I cannot continue making this site such a priority.

That said, we're not going away, not even close! But we are likely going to be cutting back on account features and such, just so our few servers can handle the loads and such. Support will happen when it happens. As we've mentioned before this site was designed to be used by 10 people at most and now we've got almost 30,000 users! It's crazy! And I appreciate each and every single person who uses this site.

Ok, so! We've still got ALL 10 permanent accounts for sale, at $100 a pop. 95% of the money generated from the sale of these account is going right back into Scribbld and the new server. We're looking to buy some new hard drives to store data on. I might spend the last 5% on myself, buy an ice cream or something...

scribbld_top5 is back up and we're looking for some new Top 5 people!

I hope everyone has a safe and fun July, GO BLOW SOME SHIT UP FOR ME!!!

June Already, WTF?!?!

2009-06-01T12:47:05Z

Hello everyone!! As usual I am impressed with the time of the year it is already! I can't believe it's June! I feel like it was just barely Fall and then Winter, and here we are, JUNE!!!

A couple of important announcements!

Renames/Rename Tokens
First, we'd like to thank everyone who tested out the rename tokens. A little free event we held to test out some new code in our site. It looks like it went well. It was a learning experience for both you and us. While we're no longer offering free renames, we'll be working on the actual rename tokens so you can purchase one and use it to rename your account to a name that's either not taken or one that you own! I believe we'll be setting the price for a single rename token to be $10.

Username Purchasing
Because we've implemented the renaming system, we'll no longer be selling usernames in usernames. So please do not send us money asking to purchase a username from there.

Permanent Accounts Sale!!
Our new server is coming along very well. We'd like to thanks the people who've been purchasing Paid Accounts or who did buy a couple or or a few usernames from us. We've got 95% of the server parts we need. The only thing left is storage space, which is 6x1TB hard drives. Yes, you guys seemingly like to write lots of entries and have ton of userpics, which is totally cool, but we need somewhere to store them!! We're selling 10 permanent accounts at $100 each. A permanent account gets you tons more stuff, notably 1500 userpics. So if you want to help us out with the last bit of the new server build, please either purchase a Permanent account or think about getting a paid account, it's all very much appreciated!! If you're interested in purchasing a permanent account, please just PayPal us directly (james.brancaccio@gmail.com), there's no option for it on the Paid Accounts page!

Also, don't forget to hit up scribbld_top5!

Happy June everyone!!

May Flowers?!

2009-05-09T23:14:42Z

Heya journalists!

It's already May, it's ridiculous how fast time flies! But I guess as the saying goes, when you're having fun, time flies!! And it sure does!

We've been trying to come up with a couple ways to get people interacting more. We've been looking into multiple webchat/IM solutions, and we're hoping to have something figured out soon! In the mean time, hit up scribbld_top5 and nominate yourself or a friend!!

We've also installed the Component and Boxer styles, so feel free to check them out. We'll likely be making them Paid only in the coming days.

As always, we're looking for new site designs, so if you know XHTML/CSS, please, do up something kickass!!

Have a wonderful May everyone!!

Happy April!!

2009-04-01T13:09:53Z

Hey everyone!!

March was a good month for us. Only a short bit of downtime (15 minutes or so because of our ISP). We're still looking to purchase a new database server. As mentioned it will cost about $2,000 but we'll get there, thanks to some purchases of Paid Accounts and usernames (usernames). We've also been personally putting some money from our paychecks aside so that we can make this happen!

Not much is planned for us this month, we're all quite tied up with various projects and such, but don't worry we haven't forgotten about Scribbld!! Make sure to head on over to scribbld_top5 to nominate yourself or a friend to be on our top 5 users list!

We hope everyone has a lovely April, we know we will, no more snow!!! :) Here's to happy warm spring days!

xoxoxo

Happy March (and Spring!!)

2009-03-08T13:42:07Z

Heylo everyone!

Sorry for a later (then usual) news posting! Things at Scribbld are going nicely. I don't think we had very much down time if at all last month which is nice. There might have been some due to winter storms, but I think we can pretty much say goodbye to all of that! It's time for the weather to start getting nice and warm!

We've been trying to work on putting together a development server so we can test out new code, styles, etc...we're also looking into purchasing a new database server, something with a lot more speed and it'll be much more dedicated then what we've got currently. It's going to cost about $2,000 or so, so if there's anytime to buy a paid account, it's now :) It's all very much appreciated!

Anyone have anything fantastically fun going on this month, any really cool Spring breaks planned?

Until next month!

Love you all! xoxo

Scribbld Administrators

February 2009 News

2009-02-01T20:57:16Z

Hi everyone!

I hope everyone had a lovely January. We've got tons of snow here and I am sure we'll get at least 1 or 2 more large dumpings! I hope everyone is staying warm, healthy and happy! We've noticed an increase in users and users actually using the site, so we're very happy with that! We hope you're all enjoying your stay and we've been trying our very best to accomodate all users, so if there's anything we can do, please let us know!

Please remember to visit scribbld_top5, nominate yourself or a friend and some communities to be featured on our home page!

We'd also like to remind people, web designers specifically that we're looking for new layouts for Scribbld. So if you can code up some good designs, let us know!

Have a wonderful February everyone!!

xoxox

Happy New Year!!

2009-01-01T15:37:31Z

Hey everyone! We've got another year upon us. I hope we all make the best of it! We here at Scribbld would like to thank each and every one of you for making 2008 an awesome year!!

We'll be trying hard to get some of requests built into the Scribbld code base. We're going to start thinking about moving to bigger and better servers (should funds permit) and if not purchasing some items that will make Scribbld more stable.

So here's to a fun, exciting and happy new year!!

Love,

Your Scribbld Admins
jimmy & morgan xooxox

Hellllllooooo December!

2008-12-05T14:58:23Z

I don't know about you all, but these months are FLYING by, it's ridiculous! I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving, and for those of you that don't celebrate it, I hope you had a lovely November!

Not to much happened on the developement side of Scribbld this month, but our systems administrator/developer (morgan) is feeling a whole lot better. She would like to thank everyone who sent her well wishes! It's much appreciated!!

That said, we're going to attempt to work on a few new features mentioned in scribbldsuggest. Not sure which one's we'll be tackling right away, but we'll figure something out!

We're also in the process of hooking up with a decent ad network, which we like and hope you will too, we definitely WILL NOT be putting ads on journals, but we'll keep them on the main site instead.

Also, calling ALL web designers and developers, we're looking for more site schemes! We're giving away paid and maybe even permanent accounts for site designs! So if you like doing that sort of thing, show us your stuff!! It must be in code (no PSDs) and should be unique! Feel free to send either jimmy or morgan and PM on the site with your stuff or any questions you might have :)

Thanks & have a wonderful December everyone!

Happy November!

2008-11-01T17:17:56Z

Hey kids!

October has come to an end, it feels like I was just posting news for August and here it is, November already!

First a bit of news about one of the system admins, morgan. Last week she was in a car accident, she hit a deer. Fortunately she's okay, but her car is complete toast :( That said, our backend development is going to slow down as she's only got one useable hand to type with (she broke her wrist). I personally wish her the quickest recovery and hope all goes well. She'll be taking a break from Scribbld coding for the next month or so.

In other news, we had almost 100% uptime last month, there was about 15 minutes of downtime due to a small power outage. This month we're going to be running some software updates on our database server, but we'll post a date and time when we get closer to doing so.

We hope you're all enjoying using Scribbld and we want to thank anyone who refers their friends, family, co-workers to our little spot on the Internet! It's very much appreciated. We hope everyone had a Happy Halloween and we hope you have a wonderful November!

- Scribbld Administrators

Happy October!

2008-10-06T16:14:22Z

Hey everyone!

Sorry it's taken me so long to write up a new entry for this month, I just didn't feel like doing it over the weekend! I hope everyone is well, up here in Vermont it's starting to get rather cold. We no longer keep the windows open at night.

It feels like just yesterday was the start of Spring, but here we are already in mid-fall! Halloween is this month, one of my most favorite holidays! Is anyone going to dress up this Halloween, if so what as?!

Scribbld stability has seemed to have returned to normal, I don't think we were down for more then 5 minutes if that during the month of September. We're still looking to get a couple new database and web servers, but that's pretty far off from happening.

As usual, thanks to everyone who has purchased a paid account or some extra icons for their account. We really appreciate any monetary donation (or if you've got servers we love donations of those too)!

I hope everyone has a safe and fun October!

September 2008 News

2008-09-10T15:13:01Z

Hi everyone,

It's been a crazy busy couple of weeks for us. I am sure those of you that go to school have been pretty busy too! Last month we were able to update the site to the most current codebase and in doing so we gained a couple new features. The biggest one that comes to mind is the ability to show the songs you've submitted to Last.fm in the Music box when you're updating your journals! Other fixes are mostly bug fixes and the likes.

We've also fixed the issue of having our internet connection (between our servers and our ISP) drop constantly. We went from being drop 8-10x per day to 0, which is fabulous!

I also wanted to thank everyone who is supporting the site through buying extras userpics for their account or upgrading their account to paid status! It's really very much appreciated and it definitely makes on want to build the best site for you!

I wish everyone a happy September, stay safe and have fun!

Happy August Everyone!

2008-08-03T18:30:32Z

Hey everyone!

First off I must apologize for the downtimes we've been having as of late. It seems to be a bit of a combination between my ISP and the power outages/storms. I've been trying to get the systems up as fast as I can, power permitting.

That said, some of you might have noticed that I've been trying out a couple chat/ chatroom options. I am not sure how I am going to do it, I might just setup a chat server and have a web page that links to it. That way we can have a main chatroom, but others can create their own chat room.

I'm also looking into moving cluster 2 on to the same server as cluster 1 for the time being and then I'll get at least one other server to host the web sites that are also on the server where cluster 2 sits.

Anyways, hit up scribbld_top5 and nominate your friends & communities!!

Stormy June Is Over

2008-07-01T19:50:17Z

Wow, what a crazy June, quite a lot of storms and of course we had to get hit pretty hard. We're getting close to the half-way point for obtaining a new database server. Any amount really helps whether you get a Paid Account or just donate some money!

Not sure about you all, but I've definitely been enjoying this nice weather, I hope you're all getting out and having a wonderful summer.

I've been working on a development server this past month so I can test out and hopefully implement new features into Scribbld. I hope you all enjoy whatever comes along (if anything)! One thing that I really hope to get working is captcha's to cut down on the spam accounts being created, but we'll see how that plays out.

I hope everyone has a lovely July!!

Happy June!

2008-06-01T12:40:04Z

Hey everyone, May went by really quickly for us, not sure about you all. I really can't believe it's June already! Happy Birthdays to you June kids!

There's not much to cover on the news front, we've been adding little tweaks into the code and stuff so it runs as smooth as possible. We are looking to purchase another 500GB hard drive so we can continue properly backing up our databases on a nightly schedule. We're quite close to filling up the 500GB RAID set we're currently using.

We've got the request up at scribbld_top5 for new top members and communities, so head on over there and nominate yourself, your friends and a community (pick 2 only, a user and a community)!

I hope everyone has a safe and fun June!!

Happy May!

2008-05-03T12:40:11Z

Hey everyone! We had a particularly good (and seeminly long) April. Thanks to everyone who bought a paid account or got themselves a couple (or even one) username! We did have a little blip in the system where the site became inaccessible for some users, but the issue has since been resolved!

We're looking to add a couple new features this month, but we'll see how much work can be done, since the weather is nice and all, and who wants to sit infront of a computer all day!

Win a Free 6 Month Paid Account
I believe yesterday or some day in the past week was green up day, if ANYONE did something, you're definitely eligable for a FREE 6 month paid account. Just send pictures (james.brancaccio@gmail.com) of you cleaning up. We've got 5 free paid accounts to give away, so go clean up a street or something! This will go as long as it takes to give away all 5 accounts!

scribbld_top5 is underway again. Sorry it took me a couple days to get it posted, been busy with other items on the to-do list. Go ahead and nominate yourself, your friends and your favorite communities to be featured on the Scribbld home page!

I believe that is all the news for right now, have a lovely May everyone!

It's April!

2008-04-01T12:23:16Z

Hey everyone!

First off thanks to everyone who is supporting the site by purchasing a paid account or usernames (usernames). There's still thousands of usernames that need homes!

So this month, we're going to work on getting the "worker" system up and running properly. You've probably noticed we've already started work on it (mentioned in system). Private messaging is all setup and it should be working. Please visit http://www.scribbld.net/inbox/ and test it out. Currently there should be no limits set because we all want you to try it out, test it, use it, enjoy it! Eventually we'll put limits on how many messages and subscriptions various account types can have.

As usual, we're holding our Scirbbld Top 5, so hurry and submit your top user and top community (only 1 of each!).

Have a lovely April everyone -- it's my birthday month -- *hint hint*!! :)

Happy March!

2008-03-03T14:34:33Z

We'll here in Vermont we still have like 3-4ft of snow on the ground and it looks like there more coming. I hope where you all are, it's warmer!

Last month we managed to complete a couple of the to-dos on our list. We added the ability for people to preview icons instead of simply selecting it form a drop down list. This is available right now to people with Paid, Permanent, Special Donator, and Early Adopter accounts. It's a really neat feature!

We also installed a new Cisco 2924 switch so things should run smoother between web and database servers.

We managed to squash a buncha bugs and we're working on squishing the rest! Thanks to everyone who reports them and to everyone who is helping out other users in our support section, it's much appreciated!

We were able to purchase the new switch because of you wonderful people and our usernames community. The sale is still going on, and you can expect it to for awhile. Go have a look at the list, I am sure there's something for everyone!! Further purchases will be used towards a UPS (battery backup) so that when the power does go out the servers should be able to stay online!

Being that it's a new month, we've got 10 new slots open for 5 users and 5 communities to be featured in our monthly top 5!! Hit up scribbld_top5 and vote/nominate now!!

Happy March everyone!

Thanks,

Scirbbld Staff

Scribbld Top 5

2008-02-11T02:02:03Z

Happy February everyone!

A new "feature" on Scribbld is the Top 5. Basically you can submit yourself, your friend, a random person or a community to be considered for the top 5. You can comment on the monthly posts in scribbld_top5 with your choice. We'll usually have a week for people to do this, at the end of the week we'll randomly pick 5 users and 5 communities and they'll have a link on the front page of Scribbld.net!

We also opened scribbldsuggest where users can suggest ideas to be implemented into Scribbld!

usernames is going to have another go, but this time each username is going to cost $4 USD. This is mostly to cover the amount of time and energy I put into making it work. Read the communities profile for the rules and stuff. Currently the list is huge so I am sure you can find a username you want :) That said, EVERYONE MUST VALIDATE BY THE 17th (February 17, 2008) if you don't want your username given away. There will be NO reclaiming, so PLEASE validate your journals if you haven't. If you're having issues with validation please submit a support ticket (although it should work fine)!

Have a wonderful day everyone!