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MeetFighters is 7 Years Old!
Hello boys and girls,
It was 7 years ago today that the site officially opened.
The last couple of months were a bit difficult. First the new server developed a hardware problem in one of its hard drives. We managed to fix it and replace the defective drive without data loss, but it's been a bit hectic and I spent way more time on the line with our data center sweating that I would normally want to.
Also, with the new server came a new IP address. Unbeknownst to me, that netblock has been, at some point, used by a spam outfit, and basically everyone on the internet had us on block lists (except for google, because they actually know how to filter spam). This severely limited the site's ability to accept new members while I was scrambling to get the new IP address unblocked from large providers like hotmail and yahoo. Some were straightforward, some less so. In the end I gave up and instead got our old IP address back. Verizon is still blocking us, and I gave up on trying to reason with them. (Seriously, fuck Verizon.)
You may have noticed some small, incremental updates to the site. There is a largish backlog of improvements for me to do, but the amount of time that I can devote to site updates has been fairly limited recently. I will try to do more in 2016.
I want to take this opportunity to thank the translation and support team of MeetFighters. You guys rock, the help you provide is worth your weight in gold. :) Also big thanks to everyone who has helped financially or sent me messages of encouragement.
On to the next 7 years! :)
MCRLON30UK (53)
2015-12-11 14:23Escaping spam taint on IP is virtually impossible, so Verizon will cycle back the new/old address into use eventually. But trying to reason with a corp rarely works out well.
HDD fuck up in the first 3 months of a new data centre should result in us hauling the hosts over the coals until they magically fix everything. Make them sweat, not the other way around.
Let's triage all the outstanding support requests and site suggestions. Discard all those that aren't feasibly possible in the short term, and start by solving the smallest soonest and work our way up from there.
Chris55 (2 )
2015-12-13 00:26Well done.... there must be always alot of work that needs to be carried to maintain the site.
Many thanks for all your efforts.