all of the above have happened to me tenfold, and today there are no avatars??? just little red x's??

sosgemini said:

i would want special privlidges

avatar's are back.....

Okay, now I just re-typed my whole message and it was twice the size that it was when I did it last time. So, let me just say this, I am going to try my damnedest not to say what I want to say to a lot of the people who are in charge in here. But, boy, oh, boy, are you guys/gals really pushing my buttons! I am not even going to attempt to type it anymore, I am so disgusted. UGHHHH!!!!

As much as I get flustered, and I do. I keep and remembering this is a free site, no banners etc. So you get what you pay for.

PaisleyPark5083 said:

Yeah, I guess you're right. It's just that I really can't conjure up the ideas that I wanted to share and they were a lot, too.

I used hate this,
but now, it gives ma an excuse to just stare blankly at the screen for minutes at a time.

It's really quite a nice break from having to deal with reality, actually.

FarrahMoan said:

Just like when (im not sure if its me) the sight take 5-10 minuts to come back
Sometimes i dont...i just guve up...

I feel everyone's pain (well, a little anyhow )

I know it's gotten a lot worse lately, and for that I definitely apologize. I don't really know what the deal is, and haven't had time to dig into it. I *do* plan to look into it, however, and maybe even this post-4th is the time to do it... I have some time off.

I actually am open to the donation / subscription thing as well, and even putting ads on the site when there's a reason to (for example, he's touring and we get a lot of visitors interested in ticket agencies), even though in the past I've NOT been interested in doing this (well, we tried ads, and it worked OK, but...)

The key thing is that yes, I really do run this as a labor of love (as the mods to as well, in fact their "job" is 100x harder and more time-consuming than mine), and I just haven't had the time to put into it lately (like, the last 3 years). I really do intend to spend some effort on improving things, and will keep folks abreast of changes. The worst thing is the crash that happens when mods move posts, for example, which basically takes down the org for 5+ minutes. I've tried to debug this before and didn't get anywhere. I'm going to give it another shot, soon.

I apologize for the inconvenience... it sucks, I know. I'll work on some fixes...

Sincerely,
Ben

ben said:

No worries, I'll stick around no matter what...thank you for all you do!!

Ben

count me in for subscription to

omg, thank u ben 4 this site


i only discovered the org in Jan 07 and when my own killed my puter 4 a few months, i really missed it.

kudos 2 Ben for his Labour of Love and 2 all the Mods 4 the time and effort u all put into this site.

i personally get a little frustrated when the hits coz i like spending time here
the org is such a great community of ppl from all walks of life- brought 2 gether by their common interest in Prince.

oh and one last thing
where do i donate?

ben said:

Dude we thank you for making this place, i for one have more reason than many for this place and if donation helps..you got it...if kit helps..ask the q dude i am sure i can work something...whatever it takes.

When I click on a thread in GD now, I get a pop up asking to download and save. I press cancel and I cannot get onto the forum.

MissMe said:

yeah I get that when I try and go to the org in Firefox, but it seems ok in Internet Explorer

jami0mckay said:

Ok, Thanks, so long as it just isn't me. I am not experiencing it on any other site. And just in the GD forum.
I was wondering if I had hit a button and blocked the site or something. I will try in internet explorer.

Who's Ben?

I'll give $5 for this emoticon to be included in chat code help

Steadwood said:

ben said:

i'm in

Illustrator said:

Your joking right ?

Ben : The Founder of the Org

XxAxX said:

Me too.

Back to the

I ran it to this problem a few times.
Not 2day but this has happend to at leat 2-3 times in the past


When i tryed to log on. i get password error and it ask me to tryagain...

After a try or 2 i realized..that i was loged in

But it was still asking me if i wanted to sign in
When i allready was

Has this ever happen to anyone eles...or is it just me...or the org

ben said:

Awhile ago, I mentioned something in the 'Suggestion' thread saying.. maybe there can be an option where if ppl are posting in the wrong forum .. the site
will put up a block saying 'Wrong Forum' and direct them to the right forum and can eliminate alot of threads being moved..

Flowerz said:

Only thing with that is, how will the site know it's the wrong forum?

If you're suggesting that the members decide, without using the "report to moderator" button (like if say each post had a "wrong forum" button, with the option of choosing which forum the thread should be sent to) I could totally see it being abused.

Nikster said:

that's true.. how would the site know? ..

Flowerz said:

It's not that clever.