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[don't let's]

But I'm pretty sure once or twice when it was down for days there was no status update. And not even after it came back up.

[Hiro]

also a good idea, I've wanted to do this. I like the blog idea, if people would actually do it (I think at least 2 people would), I imagine some kind of awesome multi-media portal thing with a blog column, livestream, widgets for latest forum topics/posts and twitter...

I think we underestimate the ability of a decent homepage to get us many new members (if you guys even want them lol) -- boyah is so big and old that a little bit of content outside the forums will make us skyrocket in search rankings and get hundreds or thousands of people each week randomly finding the site.

it wouldn't be impossible, some simple .htaccess trickery would work.

I think the media hub is the best idea. A good homepage really would help a ton.

Also I'm STILL developing a 'free web services' site with a file mirror, proxy, free FTP accounts/basic hosting, seedbox access, and some other stuff. It could be a members-only section of the homepage, or at least part of it.

I think we should have a post requirement before you can access those features, if possible.

[snoorkel]

no that idea sucks because the status blog is on its own subdomain domain solely for the fact that if boyah.net's server is down then status.boyah.net is still up since it's on a different server (tumblr's server)

Hosting the status blog on this server would do us no good when the server crashes and people try to check the status blog to see if and why the server is down.

yes obviously but I assumed we would direct boyah.net and boyah.net/forums (forums.boyah.net) to different servers. it's easy.

I think the media hub is the best idea. A good homepage really would help a ton.


I think we should have a post requirement before you can access those features, if possible.

surely.

[Mando Pandango]

I think we should just run with the dog thing we got going right now.

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[silvertone]

Blog posts....about dogs???