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Network News - Groups, Localism, Outside Blogs oh my!

As necessary, but at least once a week I am going to post this and place it in the ActiveRain channel under the topic 'network news' to keep you updated on what's going on around ActiveRain. I know, I know.....where the #$% was this a week ago? The apology comes later.....read on.

We did a major infrastrucure upgrade last week. As a result of that upgrade we have experienced a rash of issues. In order to alleviate some of those issues we had to make some quick decisions to triage the groups area of the site, as it was responsible for the majority of the proxy errors.

Proxy Errors

As you can see from the graph below (sshhh, don't tell Jorgen, I shared his super secret proxy error graph.....he's on a plane home to Kansas for Christmas right now so maybe I can sneak it by him. Don't worry, he'll be working the entire time he's on vacation) proxy errors are almost non-existent.

ActiveRain Proxy Error Graph

Groups

Groups were the major cause of the proxy errors that were abound last week and early this week. Some of the groups have gotten so big that our existing infrastructure for groups was no longer sufficient to support the amount of content contained in them. We made some temporary changes to groups in order to stop the proxy errors and give the developers enough time to fix the infrastructure.

Right now, Groups are only showing four pages and are arranged by 'last comment'. That is being fixed and on Friday morning when you wake up Groups will be back to being arranged in chronological order and you will be able to see much deeper into the archives.
Member lists in groups are still accessible, but the button has moved. To access member lists you now click on the hyper-link for the group member count. If your group has 300 people in it, the 300 will be a link you can click to access member lists. Currently you can not administrate member roles but that will be fixed Friday morning as well.

Posting to Localism

Posts are not currently feeding to Localism. This fix will be in place Friday morning. Posts that you have posted in the last week that are tagged to syndicate to Localism will feed over there retroactively once the fix is in place.

Posting to Outside Blogs

Posts are not currently feeding to your outside blog. This fix will be in place (take a guess......) Friday morning (man, I can't slide anything past you, can I?). Posts that you posted in the last week that were tagged to syndicate to your outside blog should retroactively feed once the fix is in place.

Tags on the sidebar of your blog

Right now, if you go to the tags dropdown of your blog, it's possible that you will see someone else's tags show up. In fact, you will see the same tags in the dropdown menu on every blog you go to. If you see your own tags on your blog, go to my blog.....you will see your tags on my blog as well. We call this the 'ActiveRain soulmate bug'. The person who's tags are following you is your ActiveRain soulmate and we expect that you will get to know them well and maybe make a new friend.

Any guessers for when this will be fixed? Yes......you in the back with your hand raised.......BINGO!! Friday morning.

The Apology I was talking about

I want to express a very sincere "sorry" to everyone. This last week has been a little bit tough. Our internal communication broke down and we weren't able to relay this information to you in a timely manner. Please know that the frustration that you encounter is multiplied by 1000 for every member of our team. That's not to discount your frustration because you should be able to count on ActiveRain to function properly. It's just saying that we work tirelessly to provide a product of which we can be proud and when we hit a patch like the last week our utmost concern is getting the platform stabilized so that you can utilize it. (Someone just informed me that my goatee has gray hair in it.......and I'm 100% sure it wasn't there prior to the last week)

I've never come out and asked anyone to subscribe to my blog (I just figured everyone took one look at my Shakespearian prose and immediately subscribed, hahahaha) but moving forward this will be where you can get updated consistently, so take a minute to hit that little subscribe button on the right. (Brad will attest to my HTML skills and if I was to try to pull that subscribe button in here I would be here for the next hour)

If you would like to know what I'm up to, follow me. But don't be offended if I say something colorful. I'm human!

Friends, followers, and connections are the way of the future.

Make sure you check out some of our Facebook Fan Pages Too!

Posted by Bob Stewart - ActiveRain on 12/17/2008 02:56 PM

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Originally posted at: ActiveBob.....It's always Raining!: Network News - Groups, Localism, Outside Blogs oh my!

108 Comments on Network News - Groups, Localism, Outside Blogs oh my!

DEC

Thanks Bob! Consider me subscribed!

I use my tags quite often, so I found my soulmate quite quickly, too. I purposefully didn't tell anyone because I knew the AR Powers-that-Be probably already knew about it.

I take it you're the one who has sent all this rain down my way? It's been raining non-stop since midnight, -- extremely rare for San Diego -- and the mountain passes are closed because of snow.

I even had to go work in the rain this morning instead of Playing in the Rain. The latter is much more fun -- LOL.

Thanks Bob !! I enjoy your updates - and I haven't been #!ching...... You and all the AR Staff are great. I hope you all have nice Proxy Free Holiday!! Merry Christmas!

You're welcome for keeping your members updated in the meantime. We'll continue to do so even with your weekly post to allow members to post any further concerns that your team may have missed. Here's hoping for a speedy recovery from all the recent downtime and may we all get back to blogging as normal sooner than later. Keep up the good work Bob. We do appreciate it but we definetely would like to get updated more often so we don't all think we're going into the cuckoo's nest. Btw: what happened to the programmer from china? We don't see him on the about us page anymore.

Oh and before we forget, there are a few things that you didn't adress above that we outlined in the following post: New Changes on Active Rain? UPDATED 12/16/08!

To quickly summarize one: Issues with "New members on active rain"'s myblog button's not working, and a few others. Hopefully those can get fixed by friday as well. Also can you adress the edit buttons not being there for all comment posts anymore and only the latest. Is that a bug or a fix that we should know about.

Thanks so much for the update... I was already subscribed because I appreciated the Shakespearian pose , I mean prose!

Yea! I was already subscribed but it's nice to know there is one stop shopping, I love it! KM

I've got a fairly long and storied background in network engineering, so I know the pain you and your team are feeling right now. I appreciate the communication and the effort to bring consistent reliability back to the platform.

Bob, not sure if this is a glitch of suppose to be this way...........but..........the comments are now coming up in my google alerts. Like if I or some agent in Ann Arbor comments on a post, I get an alert on it. I go to the blog and the post is nothing about Ann Arbor, but.........if I or another agent in Ann Arbor made a comment it gets sent out in a google alert.

Is this a change, a mistake or what?

Did you know?

It has been happening all week and I sent it to some MI agents to show them. Of course I follow so many Google Alerts but they are getting picked up.

I was thinking the tags issue was AR's way of trying to do a secret Santa. Thanks for the update, and good luck on Friday, Bob!

Thank you for this blog! Every little bit helps!

Okay, I've learned my lesson, I'll subscribe to your blog. I've purposely not posted anything this week and am waiting to make sure it's all up and running right before I write anything good. And as Missy said- I'm getting the Google Alerts whenever I've commented too!

You mean my post last month on "Three Must Haves on Your AR Subscriber List" didn't flood you with subscribers? What is the world coming to :-)

And let me guess. The issue with lack of points will also be fixed on....Friday! !

Have a great holiday AR team. You deserve it!

proxy errors are almost non-existent. Except for the three I got trying to read this post and the other proxy error I got trying to leave a comment : ) Lov 'ya Bob!

I love Fridays!

Bob- Thanks for the explanation. You didn't address one issue (that I know of ;-)) I'm the #1 (featured) agent, in Westport, CT, but when you go to that location, I'm not shown as one of the "Real Estate Professionals" (right hand column.) Would someone please put me back.

BTW, I'm already subscribed to you, Brad, Rich, Jonathan, Matt, Jorgen, Mike and Claire. I figured among those blogs, I would always have a clue as to the latest glitch inovation in the rain.

don't tell Jorgen, I shared his super secret proxy error graph

Hey Bob,

I'm almost sure that huge spike on the day I registered is just a random coincidence. :)

Bob...

Yikes .... I think the preference of asbout 90% of the group members s to have the posta ordered by "Last Comment!" We want to know which posts are getting the activity, not which are the newest.

I think this is essential for the survival of the group as a forum, and not simply a list!

Thanks for the update.

It is great that you keep us all in the loop.

*crossing fingers before I hit SUBMIT*

Cherimie,

Glad my shameless plug worked ;-)

Russel,

"I even had to go work in the rain this morning....." You aren't going to get me to shed a tear on that one, haha.

Christine,

All i asked for from Santa was a 'proxy error free' Christmas, so let's see how good I have been this year.......

Castellum,

Thanks. Yi is no longer with us.

Judy,

hmmm, a Shakespearian pose....you may be on to something. Maybe my next profile pic will have a huge collar in it like they used to wear back then.

Kristin,

I'm like the Wal-Mart super store of ActiveRain news.

Craig,

Pain is a good word to describe it :-)

Missy,

It's a change.....but not on our end. It appears to be something Google is doing. Our comments have always been able to be indexed by Google. All we have ever done is put 'no follow' tags on any links inserted in a comment. (in an effort to deter spammers). Recently Google has started diving deeper into each page it is indexing on ActiveRain. They are certainly up to something. My Google alerts for 'ActiveRain' and 'Active Rain' are blowing up over the last four or five days. I'm getting 10 times as many as I was prior. It hasn't had a significant impact on traffic on the site yet, but we're keeping a very close eye on it.

I'll steal this line from Rich Jacobson that was passed around in an internal email between us: "The day any of us can (fully) explain, yet alone understand how and what Google does is the day we should be in contract negotiations with MS or Yahoo!"

John,

If you were assigned my tags, then yes, it was a secret santa idea :-)

Meredith,

glad I could help.

Linda,

Everything should be straightened out by Friday morning.

Cindy,

I picked up a few from that :-). The points not updating may be in the next release although we are shooting to have it in this one.

Dena,

Wouldn't that have to happen. I got them around the same exact time as I was trying to let Kelan log in to post a wordless wednesday post.

I have sent in message also about not being listed as an agent under localism, and I'm the #1 agent in Apex, just as Marilyn has said! I would love to be listed as an agent in the most important section that CLIENTS can read!. To be not even listed, much less put in as #1 after all the work we've done is a little upsetting. Thanks for working on it guys!

Jo,

Me too :-)

Marilyn,

That is happening across the network. It looks like the first and second place person in each city is not showing up. I'll amend the post once I get confirmation from the developers of whether or not that will be in this fix. If nothing else, we will get to read about it in the next installment of network news.

Bruce,

as long as that envelope with the cash shows up by next week, you will be proxy error free in 2009 ;-)

Richard,

Hmmmm......we got a ton of feedback (mostly from Group moderators) that they wanted it arranged chronologically so they could see new posts in an effort to be able to select featured posts. It used to default to 'most recent post', then you could sort by 'most recent comment'. We will have the sorting feature back in place soon, but for Thursday nights release, it's going to be 'most recent post' with the ability to sort based on other choices soon to follow.

Tom,

Looks like the old finger crossing trick worked!

Bob, how dare Active Rain have any glitches! I thought all you guys were perfect. Now we just have to pray that no tornadoes hit Kansas.

Bob, thanks for the head's up. I noticed some "issues," and went looking for a post by you or one of the other guys - like Brad and Rich - to let us know if I was bonkers. ;-) Now that I know I'm not completely bonkers, I'll wait until Friday and check stuff out. ;-)

Have a very Merry Christmas. ;-)

You guys SUCK!!! Oops...that was meant for Countrywide :) I've been so busy dealing with short sale negotiations I hadn't even noticed most of the issues. The big question is.....WHO GOT TLW'S CRAP-A-RAMA TAGS?

LOL @ Blog Boy (Broker Bryant)...

You'd think someone would have noticed The Booger in their Tags :)

TLW...ROAR!

Linda,

The Localism top neighbors is not based on points but I will check into it in your specific case and see what the issue is.

Brian,

We made Jorgen promise that he would remain in a basement at all times.

Teri,

You are not bonkers......if anyone is bonkers, it's clearly Paul Slaybaugh (let's see how well the google alerts for comments works, haha)

BB,

I have been pleading with Jorgen to assign the CRAP-A-RAMA tags to me but he won't budge.....

TLW,

I had something sticky on my finger, maybe that's what it was.......

I had some problems, and started checking the posts and found the problem. Glad to hear about good Friday...

Bruce,

as long as that envelope with the cash shows up by next week, you will be proxy error free in 2009 ;-)

Awesome! Do you accept plastic? :)

I sure hope you can make it to work on Friday, so you can get these updates going. Be safe and if it is a matter of being safe and getting things to work right, be safe and stay home...

LOL WidowMaker...

The Boogers are following me everywhere I go.

This is absolutely hilarious :)

TLW...ROAR!

Bob~ Your shameless plug helped- I subscribed just now. Actually, I was happy to subscribe! Vickie

Bob: You give new meaning to "Good Friday". Thank you and all of your team for, I know what must be an overwhelming job, but I very much appreciate everyone's hard work. I must be a sicko, I'm thinking I might miss the old proxy error when it's gone. NOT

Bob thanks for the update. I am not sure if anyone else has experienced this but I am not on the sidebar of Localism for my home town in Hopkinton Massachusetts. I have just vanished. All the other members are there except me. I sent a ticket in on Monday but have not heard from anyone. Am I the only one missing in action?:)

After typing this I just read some of your comments and see I am not alone. I feel only a wee bit better - LOL

Bob, I haven't witnessed any street riots yet but luckily it's the holidays and we have to be nice to you! LOL.

I think men with gray hair look quite distinguished. No plucking! We'll hang on till Friday.

Holiday Hug, Deb

Oh Bob- I was begining to think it was active rains way of running me off. I'm so glad to know that's not the case.

Bob-thanks for the update! Hang in there..its growing pains..today I saw 25,000 people online? :) I was thinking if that is true..WOW..I love it.

Rebecca,

I'll be glad when 'good friday' is upon us......my inbox is choking on itself!

Bruce,

haha.....nope, just cash....you know that whole paper trail thing :-) Jon checks our merchant account for 'Bribe to Bob Stewart' once a month.

Todd,

"Be safe"? Do you mean be safe when we are driving home? cause we never leave. I'll be safe when I take my break to play some Wii in the office though......I'll make sure not to throw out my arm pitching to Jon.

TLW,

I have lots of jokes that I will just keep to myself.

Vickie,

Thanks! I'm only 20 subscribers from catching Jon and then I'll only be 1500 behind Brad, hahaha

Anon,

You are a sicko if you miss the proxy error.....

Bill,

You said the 'sidebar for Localism'. I'm guessing you meant the city pages on ActiveRain? Yes, the top two people are missing. I don't know if that fix is going to make it in this release. We are trying to squeeze it in.

Deb,

Street riots? Should I take the address for ActiveRain down from my last post? :-)

Tammy,

You probably aren't the only one who was thinking that unfortunately.

Bob - Thanks for the post - looking forward to Friday - like Christmas!

I subscribed long ago, I am your #2 fan!

Bob--I cannot even begin to imagine trying to keep 125K plus people happy...Especially at this time of year. Growing pains will continue but you guys always seem to do a great job keeping it all together. :)

Bob,

We love you, man! And we love this fantastic community you've created. Thanks for everything!!

Mike in Tucson

Bob - As long as you're sorry, I guess! : ) I can only imagine the amount of work this all takes.

I had to make a 2nd signature because my ladybug didn't look right on the blue when I commented on my own blogs... I can forgive you for that because I used photoshop and it only took a few minutes.

Curious if we'll be able to see who has reblogged us soon.

Keep up the good work, we love AR!

Bob - Thanks for the update! I have been seeing Clint Miller's disturbing set of tags lately on my blog, and on anyone else's that I visit. By the way, I don't see a "subscribe" button up there, but I do see one that says "unsubscribe". Should I use that instead? :)

Hopefully my Active Rain Soulmate is a very productive realtor :-) Thanks for sharing.

Well...

It's not effecting Google Juice...Look what I just got on a TLW alert:

Real Estate Blog - Network News - Groups, Localism, Outside Blogs ...
You guys SUCK!!! Oops...that was meant for Countrywide :) I've been so busy dealing with short sale negotiations I hadn't even noticed most of the issues. The big question is.....WHO GOT TLW'S CRAP-A-RAMA TAGS? ...
It's always Raining.........'ActiveRain' - http://activerain.com/blogs/arbob

TLW...ROAR!

Bob, thanks for the update. Though I think you are just trying to get on the most subscribed blog list. Who knows maybe somebody might subscribe "Friday"

It's all good Bob..it's all good.

Thank you Bob, I'm adding you to my subscriptions as the "answer man"!

Hi Bob Now I know why I am having a hard time changeing my header on the outside blog. I tried 6 times then decided to read your blog....sort of the cart before the horse. Thanks for all you guys do and no apology needed.

Bob, Awesome update. So glad I was sooooo busy last week with business and the arrival of my new book...not affected by your glitches....but I certainly heard about them. Did not need a button, already subsribed. Thanks for caring so darm much!

Midori,

That number is messed up. It's not clearing the cache and we have to update it manually. I hope you 'love it' either way. :-)

Virginia,

Friday is going to be marvelous for my inbox, I know that much.

Teri,

it's a challenge, I can guarantee you that.

Mike,

You are welcome and thank you for the kind words.

Chris,

Once we get the major stuff in order, we will certainly get the reBlog notification fixed. I see it on a board outside my office right now as something in line to take care of.

Jason,

haha funny guy! Ummm, no...do not use that button instead ;-)

Steve,

I like how you think!

TLW,

Nope, no effect there :-)

Russ,

I look forward to your subscription on Friday then :-)

Neal,

(just nodding my head in agreement)

Silvia,

Ich bin der "Antwortmann" (ok, I do not speak german and I used an online translation site so I hope that their translation of 'answer man' doesn't really mean I am a jelly doughnut.....wait, that was Kennedy)

June,

I think an apology was in line because we were not proactive in addressing the issues with the membership. For that we are sorry.

Bob - Thanks for the updates. I guess that when you grow as fast Active Rain and are always looking for ways to improve Active Rain you will run into small difficulties. Don't worry I have patience for the great improvement that you guys are making.

Bob, you guys rock ! Thanks for the update as well. I am starting to learn to relax when those things come up as you guys are always a few steps ahead it seems.

Awwww, gee thanks so much! I thought it was another turkey! I love having a soul mate in my tags, how cool is that?

I LOVE Fridays! This will be one time that TGIF is the favorite saying thru out AR!

So now that this is all under control, chill out and go enjoy the holidays1

Debbie

I'm glad to hve this venue and appreciate what you are trying to do. Hope you have a great Hoilday . Then right after you open all your presents. GET BACK TO WORK.

Thank you, thank you Bob. Friday, got it, Friday:-)

Bob, this was very informative. Thanks for sharing. Perhaps someone that is NOT following you would like to get this information (or link) in the daily newsletter? For example, I was not following your post until recently (call my stupid... Hey.. don't mean it). Thanks for the info. I think you mentioned the enhancements will be done on... Friday I think, right?

Thank you for keeping up on all this and making AR a great place.

Bob, We all appreciate everyone's hard work to keep this site going. Sounds like Friday is going to be a great day :)

Thanks for the update.... you guys do your best.... and let's face it, %$*& happens.

With the kind of expansion AR experiences and the necessary tech upgrades, "glitches" are to be expected. We know you're always on it.

it's quite ok. I always focus on the positives. AR rocks

Bob: Thank you for the updates and all that you and the gang do for us at Active Rain !

Thanks for the detailed updates. It's good to have an idea when things like the localism posts will be fixed. I do feel for all of you. I am just techy enough to have a glimmer as to what is involved and what you all are going thru. We do need to be patient!

Hi Bob, any idea why I can no longer access my associates posts by clicking on Associates (posts)? Or can I expect this to be fixed.....friday? Thanks! - Jim

Thanks for taking the proxy errors down to mere blip. I know you and many others are constantly striving to make Active Rain a better place and I wanted to let you know that I appreciate it.

Bob-I read all including the comments, and one thing I have to say is glad you listened to the Group Moderators....we do try to engage the members and keep the Features fresh. My question is that yellow going to stay or is it temporary (crossing fingers for temporary)........Anyway, thanks for the updates, and also for working on the "tickets" in a timely manner.

Well, I knew there was some kind of explanation. It would be very much appreciated by all the active members to have updates as things happen. It's one thing to hold back with the great Localism release...another just to stop the ##^&&()&$#%@!

So...are you saying that rumor is not true about messing up the groups so they can get more SEO?

I'll have an answer if you come back with 'oh yeah..that was so true'.

Hi Bob... I did not read through 60-something responses, but all I could think as I read your post was, "It's tough when you become a victim of your own success!" CONGRATULATIONS!

Seahawks????

Bob - I see you've been busy, I'll add a subscribe button to your Blog for you! LOL~ :-)) Guess with my new yellow belly, there'll be no hiding in the comment section of your posts anymore! haha And you can bet I won't check that little "notify" box below for obvious reasons. ROFL...

Oh Bob...gray in the goatee...I'm so sorry. Did we do that to you? If Brad is volunteering to add your subscribe button, then the least I can do is volunteer to 'touch up' your goatee. :-) We have to keep you looking good so that you can represent AR in style. ~GBU~

DEC

Thank you for the update and the timeline for getting everything up and running again.

Bob, thank you for the explanation, although yes there should have been a notification.

Please thank the AR tech team for their hard work. I am looking forward to even more and better changes in the AR layout, design, and structure. Although it is good, it is not anywhere near the high professional level I would expect, such as linked in. But I'm in AR for the long haul, I know it will be done in the future!

Regina P. Brown
Allison James Estates & Homes

It looks like our tech team was able to push through a build tonight that fixed many of the errors. You will also notice that they temporarily took down the "online now" tracker; it was causing the site to slow down. You should expect it to return soon.

Thanks Bob. Blah, blah, bla... trying not to say anything naughty.

Thanks, frankly folks may be frustrated at times but this is an evolving community and we are all hopefully growing together. I must also mention we get this incredible community and resource for free so it baffles me when people get angry (yes I have even posted a rant or two but I am always grateful and just wanted to say so!)

Those dreaded Proxy Errors--glad to hear they should be rectified soon. Thanks for the update--I subscribed to your blog to keep on top of things.

Bob I do...its growing and getting better!

Bob yes I guess I did mean the city pages. I was confused because when you go there from AR there is the localism logo.

Pologies accepted - you deserve a break. I hope you have a nice relaxing holiday!

Keep up the good work!

Bob, I noticed we also lost the ablility to edit our comments.. I so happy this is fixed. I am the typo queen~

And I have heard from several who hate the new look of the group posts page! Could you go back to the old design? Please please~

Thanks for the updates BOB!

I am wondering if I will have the ability to add paragraphs when I respond to my own posts soon. Well I do add paragraphs but then they go :poof: when I submit the comment. I am not sure if this is my problem or if others have it too.

I tried scrolling through comments here to see if you answered this question but the page is being funky.

On behalf of all 125,248 A|R members, I'm happy to accept your apology and tell you that it's ok...

I suspect then that the issues with correct points issues are also part of the problem, right? I know I know, Friday.

Bob - Apology accepted. I am just glad to see a) I'm not crazy and b) you're all working at doing what it takes to grow this place. Thanks.

Bob,

Your post took care of a lot of relevant stuff and is really appreciated. Subscription will be done momentarily.

DEC

Changes seem to be coming fast and furious. Is there a plan or are the changes ad hoc?

Hi Bob. I just stumbled on this post. It's Sunday and the Group Administrator function is not yet working for me in my group.

Glad to see the proxy errors are fixed! But, I am still not receiving any email notifications. Any idea why?

DEC

Bob, Are you still having problems getting the posts to feed to Localism? A post I did a couple of days ago and one more today have not shown up on Localism yet. Thanks for all you do for AR.

I am glad to find out that you all know about the issues and are working on it. I thought I was doing something and retried a million times to post to Localism. I guess not knowing that there was an issue to be dealt with was the hard part. And sorry to say Friday has come and gone, since your post! So keep at it and I am sure it will get fixed soon. Thanks for letting us know all the issues and the plan for the repair.

DEC

I have a great Idea for SIF in the interim. Hope you have time to stop by. I will be posting tomorrow (maybe tonight) I am making some 2009 lemonade!

DEC

Hi,

Do you have any idea when the fixes to Localism will be done?

DEC

One of the reasons I've been drawn to AR is the community. Keep up the good work.

Hey Bob - hope you guys had a good holiday - I am still seeing the half button in Localism - the search one and the posts are still held up at least the Seattle ones :)

Bob,

Thanks for letting me know....and keeping us informed...I was beginning to wonder what I was doing wrong being relatively new to AR. THANKS!!!

Lori Cofer, Beasley Realty

DEC

RE: "Currently you can not administrate member roles but that will be fixed Friday morning as well."

Any idea when this will be fixed?

I am curious as to when the items I posted to Localism after Dec. 17th will show up on the site. So far I do not see them. I would appreciate an update. Thank you so much and have a Happy New Year.

DEC

I appreciate that the proxy errors have been repaired. Thanks and wishing you and your family and happy, healthy and prosperous 2009.

Hi Bob...I just dropped by to Wish you and your family a Happy and Prosperous Year in 2009!

Cheers... Happy New Year from Fred Carver

JAN

Did you all know that the tags drop down menu doesn't work properly in Firefox? I sent this error to support many weeks ago, along with screen shots. Basically, only a partial list of tags shows up in firefox; there is no scroll bar to see the rest of them. Essentially, my readers using firefox are only seeing my first 20 tags or so.

Is this going to be fixed soon?

JAN

Bob, we all knew something was going on! We gripe but we also appreciate you! You see, if you had not become so important to us it would be no big deal. Maybe you should designate a 9-1-1 alert person that will post when problems look like they will take awhile to fix...then you won't be bombarded with "fixit" posts...let me know and I will be happy to do it for you. One phone call to me and I will alert the AR world.

One of the fixes you didn't mention is the viewing availability of all our members stats! These stats have grown very important to all of us that are on the path to improve. Will they be coming back? I want all my customers and clients to see the effort that is being placed into this wonderful place.

It is a good sales tool for us all. So, please don't forget the stats! And, thank you for all you do! Kelan's pic is just adorable...looks a lot like daddy without the goatee! Love it.

PS. I've subscribed to you all along. Everyone should. ;-)

Until I read Karen's comment about Firefox I never stopped to consider that my issues may have more to do with my editing in my personal browser preference Google Chrome than glitches in Active Rain. I am relatively new to AR, but am very appreciative to folks like you that stay on top of all this. Thanks for your efforts, if/when I catch on, look for my blog to rock. Hopefully I can pass it on like the established AR community has done for me.

JAN

You will also notice that they temporarily took down the "online now" tracker; it was causing the site to slow down. You should expect it to return soon.

12/18/2008 04:14 AM

by Jonathan Washburn (ActiveRain Corp)

Good evening Jonathan,

How soon is "soon"? :)

Yeah I am excited to hear that posts to localism will finally start working again, I look forward to Friday since I am stuck home waiting for the dishwasher repairman from 8-5

JAN

Bob,

Hey I don't know if you can help or direct me but I sponsored Pullman WA on Localism last week or the week before that...all looked good. my info appeared and so did my link to my site for the MLS search..now I don't see my sponsorship anymore.....I emailed AR but haven't heard back. Is this just me? Any suggestions? I have been waiting for a response for over a week...

JAN

Hey, Bob.

Jim Frimmer and I are wanting to add some neighborhoods to Localism but we can't figure out how to do it? Could you help us. Thanks.

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