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Making Some Headway on that Backlog I’ve Got

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So I’m making some headway into the huge amount of backlog I have to put up on Squackle.

My progress the past couple months has been to separate each quote into its own post, type up the thousand or so jokes that were in joke books and in a word document file I’ve had since 2008, and posted some pictures from a used-to-be-fun-but-not-anymore-cause-no-one-uses-it-anymore Facebook app.

I’m probably still gonna be posting more jokes up.

Just to state what I “have” to put up, I’ve got:

The “Stuff to put on Squackle” folder on my desktop, about 3 gigs of unprocessed crap.

A drawer just for stuff I make day-to-day

At home, there’s a couple shoeboxes of pictures and a few folders of comics and shit I drew in high school.

and 5 or so years’ worth of submissions to sift through that’s sitting in my e-mail account.

And that about covers it.

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Ye Ald Bulletin Board

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Courtesy of the “Wayback Machine” I’ve found the most current, browsable, version of the old Squackle Bulletin Board that I have many fond memories of.

If you’d like to take a look, here it is:

http://web.archive.org/web/20061127051009/www.squackle.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi

It makes me want to make another forum, but I don’t think anyone would even join it.  So maybe later.

Not all the forums and pages are viewable, it seems.  But oh well.  I do have all the posts stored away somewhere, but I don’t think I’ll be able to convert them into something more modern since its a few years old.

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New “Series” Plugin

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I don’t know if many people care or not about this functionality, but the “associated articles” plugin I was using, called InSeries became very dated, and started acting funky.

So I scoured the internet for a replacement and found something pretty cool called “Organized Series” for WordPress.

I think it’s better than it was before.  Also, the list is very much less obtrusive in certain cases, so there you go.

Here’s an example of what it looks like now on a post:

https://squackle.com/10258/chat-logs/10258-bloodninja-sarah19fca/

The Squackle Quiz

What six troubles did a “mighty magician” bring to the earth?

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What six troubles did a "mighty magician" bring to the earth?

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16,000 Posts

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I’ve hit a milestone of sorts.  Squackle is now 16,000 posts large.

I’m mostly making this post because I’m trying to figure out something.  And I figured I may as well say something interesting.

Now that I’m done separating all the quotes into their own posts, I’m going to work on adding the Polls into their own pages so each question can be seen independently of the random poll on the right side of the site.

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Ratings Ratings Ratings!

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I’ve been doing some tinkering with the ratings stuff on the site.  You might have noticed that the “Heart or Hate” has become Squackle’s personal “like or dislike” motif.  Each post has the custom images of the <3 or H8 that I made and based off my “davepoobond’s font” that I made a long time ago.

I also have added a comments rating plugin to the web site, so not only can you rate posts (HINT HINT) you can rate comments!

Loads of fun for all.

I’ll probably be posting comments now and in the future just to add more allure to the “I want to read comments on posts now” sort of thinking.  At least, in my head…so I’m thinking that you are thinking you want to think about clicking a link so you can think about something someone said and think about clicking an eventual Heart or Hate thing.

Ain’t that cool?????????

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Stuff You Don’t Care About But I’m Telling You Anyway

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I updated to WordPress 3.0 recently and discovered there is a “multi-site” option.  Whoopydoo.

But to get that to work I had to move the installation to the root file.

So that fucked up like half the things on the site for a little while, and now I have to go through every page that has images or whatever and re-insert them to make them all work.  At least I’ll never have to do anything like that again (I hope).

Also, if you’re looking for a page that used to be in the “index” folder (for example, the old site), I may or may not redirect them to where I moved them.  I dont think anyone really cares about them though.  As long as you’re here, that’s all I care about!

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Some Changes Afoot

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I’ve been doing quite a bit of work on the web site recently.  I’ve gotten rid of that nasty “/wordpress/” uglying up the URL bar, so now you can get to the site by going to Squackle.com — that’s spiffy ain’t it?  And I made it so that any old links still work.  Hopefully I’ll be able to change it so they redirect to the URL without the “/wordpress/” though.

What else is planned to be done:

Permalinks that are SEO-friendly.

Figuring out if there are any other plugins that would make the web site cool.

Maybe a new theme.

Maybe re-numbering all the articles that have #s.  Not very likely, though.

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50,000 Hits

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Pretty much a year after I launched this version of my site, I’ve gotten 50,000 hits according to the stats program I’ve got running.

That’s an average of about 4,200 hits a month.  Not bad, but I hope to get that increased.

It’d be swell if you passed around a link to this site to your friends.  Also, thanks to anyone sticking around and visiting every now and then.