Blogivists HQ

About a year ago we warned that any old and outdated themes, as well as any unconfirmed user accounts, along with any blogs that had not been visited for six months would be deleted. A lot of the themes were deleted, but the rest we let stay.

Until today.

If you have not visited your blog in at least six months it will be marked for deletion. An email went out about this last year, so it has been stated this will happen.

The reason for this is that we’re trying to clean up the databases to make the site run smoother. We’re migrating to a new server, which will help tremendously, but we still have some 1,500 inactive blogs that receive comments and have activity, even though they only have a post or two and were abandoned after their first week online.

This problem shouldn’t continue now that we have the latest version of WordPress installed. In other words, if you start a blog yesterday but don’t bother getting around to it until next month you’ll be fine and you have nothing to worry about.

Our current cleanup is for blogs created in 2010 or earlier.

Just an FYI…

-Eric Odom

I have several emails today letting me know about the problems with the old version of the video code not working. There is good news and better news on this note.

First, I reinstalled the old video plugin so all of your existing video short codes will still work and your videos should appear as normal now. That’s the good news.

The better news is that you don’t to use them anymore. Regular video embed code from YouTube and other sites should now work as is.

Vlog away!!!

-Eric

I’m very pleased to post this announcement because it means we’re finally back up and running. Well, we were never down, but we did run into some serious issues with a couple of problems.

1) The level of spam blogs and users bogged the databases down so badly that we could never seem to get out from under it.

2) The server has never quite worked the way we wanted/needed it to

3) For some reason we couldn’t get the software upgraded, making it virtually impossible to utilize new plugins and functionality that we badly needed.

Back when Blogivists.com first began (February of 2008) it operated under the Sam Adams Alliance. While the Sam Adams Alliance certainly had good intentions, leadership never truly embraced the possibilities behind such an effort and we were never able to take it to the next level.

That said, 2008 saw a lot of great Blogivists come into play, both here on our site as well as Read the rest of this entry »

One of our big goals for 2010 is to become more than a blogging platform. Of course, the blogs will always be the core part of the Blogivists family, but we want to expand out and be able to offer a lot more to our user base.

We’ve recently coded in a community feature that allows any user to create a community through the backend, we’ve added internal instant messaging systems, we made it possible for any user to start an internal discussion forum, we’ve expanded our themes to include premium themes, and now we’re adding one of the coolest features we’ve ever had… Read the rest of this entry »

It’s obvious that a lot of changes are happening around Blogivists.com. We’ve upgraded our software, coded in a ton of new features, cleaned up the old themes and upgraded the existing themes.

We’re also building a new support system that we hope will help deal with any major issues as they arise. This new system will be in place by New Years Day of 2010.

One of the new functions we haven’t talked much about is our upcoming premium services. As you might imagine, running this website is not cheap for us, but we work hard to keep it free for you. Of course, we can’t do this forever without building in alternatives that can bring in revenue needed to operate the site. Read the rest of this entry »