Just finished doing upgrades of both the Movable Type installation that this blog runs on, and of the software the forums run on. The new version of Movable Type is aimed at helping with comment spam and server issues surrounding the countless comment attempts, while the PHPBB upgrade is because of a security issue.
I’m fairly certain that both went off without a hitch, but if you run into something that’s not working, please let me know!
This Friday, June 28, I will be the guest of the Raising Great Men Twitter Chat. If you want to follow the conversation, you can follow the hashtag #momsofboychat to check it out.
The Child Abuse Social Network is off to a pretty decent start, some 20 members and some good conversations. I have noticed though, that a number of folks are getting to the front page, prompted to create a profile and leaving. I know that requiring you to join the network before you can read anything…
Thanks to a great plugin, I’ve enabled you all to have the ability to subscribe by email to comments on any entry on the blog. So, when you leave a comment and want to know if anyone responds to your comment, just be sure to check the box for that, and leave your email address…
Since Google announced the new community feature for Google+, I thought creating a community for survivors would be a fun way to experiment with the feature, and see what we could make of it as a group. Not making any promises, but thought it’d be fun and interesting. We’ll see what happens! If you’re interested…
Because of some issues with spammers creating accounts just to post links to sites, I made a change in the forums that create a visual check before you can sign up for an account, and then require me to approve your account before you can post. I don’t think it’ll be too much of a…
Saw a couple of new sites, one from a comment, the other in my referrer logs: Fugly Fog, a brand new blog by another male survivor, was the one I saw in my referrer logs, and JustAMom, written by the mother of a child who has recently revealed that he had been sexually abused. I…
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