teddybAIR wrote:I have the impression that since about a week now, lot's of people have left this website, the traffic isn't the same anymore. Can anybody tell why this is happening? Because the site is being reworked?
TeddybAIR,
that's just an impression in my opinion, yesterday 5451 unique visitors visited the website, today already 4086. Total new topics and messages in the forums hasn't dropped either. How can I convince you it isn't ?
earthman wrote:Probably. It's never a good idea to try out new things on a working production system. Especially if that means sending people off to a different site which doesn't even have a domain name, and breaking half the features, making posts disappear, etc.
Indeed it's not good to keep the website running at only 70% of the functionality but after the hacking attempts I decided to change the website. I have a full-time job and I am a full-time father of a 6 month old baby. Do I have to close down the entire website for a few weeks, no visitors, no forum, etc... just till I find thé time to fix it ? Then we would lose alot of members. At least now the latest news and the forums are working properly. Please stand-by for further improvements. I hope everyone understands the difficult situation I am in.
Speaking of that......howz Xabi 8) All my love out to the kid....and we are with you on the site development......the kid is a priority.....this (luchtzak) is a passion....which can wait 8)
teddybAIR wrote:I have the impression that since about a week now, lot's of people have left this website, the traffic isn't the same anymore. Can anybody tell why this is happening? Because the site is being reworked?
TeddybAIR,
that's just an impression in my opinion, yesterday 5451 unique visitors visited the website, today already 4086. Total new topics and messages in the forums hasn't dropped either. How can I convince you it isn't ?
Happy to hear it's only an impression...and maybe the good weather is a factor as well
teddybAIR wrote:I have the impression that since about a week now, lot's of people have left this website, the traffic isn't the same anymore. Can anybody tell why this is happening? Because the site is being reworked?
TeddybAIR,
that's just an impression in my opinion, yesterday 5451 unique visitors visited the website, today already 4086. Total new topics and messages in the forums hasn't dropped either. How can I convince you it isn't ?
Happy to hear it's only an impression...and maybe the good weather is a factor as well
Don't forget there might be a whole bunch of members going on holiday too in this period
Agree! But then again, in these times of World Wide Web, hotspots, wireless,...this shouldn't be a problem. I mean, what is better than uploading your images of your planetrip right after you've actually done it? Or even during! (I'm dreaming)
I have realised that on the www you can't sit still, wait and enjoy what you have created. There are constant threats to bring your website and your server down: hacking attempts, DNS-attacks, spam,etc... also upgrades to newer versions (PHP, apache, SQL) may bring problems. In short; you have to innovate before it's too late.
That's why I decided to drop the old forum (version 2.0.4) and install the new one (version 2.0.21). Maybe some messages are missing and yes maybe some topics don't work anymore but I do now that the forums are running in the safe-mode (I have other ideas about the portal but working on it). Didn't you notice how fast this website is going last few days?
. That's old and full with leaks, no wonder it got hacked. 