life from the front lines

[denise]

* Thank you to everybody for your good wishes! I wish I could reply to everyone individually, but as you can imagine, uh, kinda drowning over here. I ♥ you all, though.

* I do not ♥ PayPal. I would like for it to go away now. I told mark that if he loves me, he will get me a merchant account somewhere and write me a better interface than PayPal's utter crap. He told me he doesn't love me that much.

* Everyone who has gotten us this far, everyone who's handing out invite codes, everyone who's bought an account, everyone who's talked us up to their friends -- thank you guys. Seriously. You are all incredibly awesome.

* We did it. All of us! We did it! WE MADE A SITE!

* I even managed to get a good 12 hours of sleep today for once!

* mark and janinedog are currently asleep on our couch. I'd like to tell the entire Dreamwidth userbase that mark snores like a freight train.

* Still got tons of launch-related stuff to do, like sending out invites to people on the mailing lists (Mailman sure doesn't make it easy to export a subscribers list, omg) -- they've been drowned out by PayPal problems. (See item #2 above.)

* We got the first check payments in the mail today. (The local post office regional hub is really fast.) I went to go complete the order for the first of them. I got a 404 error.

"Hey, Mark," says I. "I think you forgot to push that file."

He told me he actually hadn't finished that code yet. He swears he'll do it tomorrow morning, though.

* Time from site launch to first Terms of Service complaint that wasn't just an inquiry about a certain provision of the ToS, but someone who wanted to report content in someone else's account/community: 18 hours.

(The answer was "so don't look at it, then!")

* Number of times I have had to re-log-in to PayPal because it has timed out on me, in the past 48 hours or so: off the freakin' scale. At least I remember our PayPal password now.

* I cannot wait to get the enhanced version of the stats page finished, so you guys can watch the rate of people moving in. Because it is awesome.

* WE DID IT. WE DID IT, OMG. WE GOT HERE.

Now it is time to make it even better.

Comments

[ms_katonic]

(The answer was "so don't look at it, then!").

Heh heh heh, that's awesome. Wonder what the content was...

[akk]

I know, but I am opposed to become a regular customer of paypal for other reasons if it can be avoided at any costs. Some of their business conduct principles just creep me out.

But thanks for the kind advice. :)

[mark]

She's ruining my plans to couchsurf across the world! :(

[jenlev]

You guys have done an amazing job! Congratulations and I hope you all get to take a break and take a nap soon. *hugs*

[mark]

Ah yes, the fabled Mark Turnover: cuts noise pollution by 80%!

[denise]

I'm evil like that.

[mark]

4:30 AM? Oh man. You spent how many hours walking around DC with us and you're up that late!

We got home and didn't last long. Janine was gone by slightly past 11, I made it to near 12. (Of course she's still out and I'm up...)

[velithya]

It also sounds like a tasty treat!

The answer was "so don't look at it, then!"

[vampwillow]

Yay for sanity and sense.

OMG U DID IT!

[mark]

Not food! D:

[velithya]

Awwwww

[spikewriter]

Considering I was one of the fools who had to call for help yesterday after managing to accidentally delete layers and completely hosing my layout so I couldn't change anything, thank you. I sent off my message, went off to breakfast with my husband and came back about two hours later to find a work around sitting in my mail box (along with a "Yeah, we need to work on that"). The turn-around was great, but the work around was also written in readable language that was easy to understand, so thank you for that as well.

* Time from site launch to first Terms of Service complaint that wasn't just an inquiry about a certain provision of the ToS, but someone who wanted to report content in someone else's account/community: 18 hours.

(The answer was "so don't look at it, then!")

Hee! So who had 18 hours in the pool?

[wenchpixie]

Oh, poor mark! Although I'm glad you guys are getting some sleep - the site's awesome and you guys deserve it!

[denise]

Our support volunteers are awesome. :) I'm so glad you had a good experience!

We actually didn't do a pool. We totally should have, though. *g*

[the_shoshanna]

You guys are just made of rose-tinted awesome sometimes.

Especially:

(The answer was "so don't look at it, then!")

...these times.

Hey, speaking of the stats page, howcum the Gender: Unspecified answers aren't included in the percentage calculations? (And the "raw data" page 404s, but that's just an "oops," not a "huh?".

Glad to hear the checks are arriving quickly -- I wants my seed account, precious!

And finally -- thank god you have all slept. Yikes!

[litotease]

* Time from site launch to first Terms of Service complaint that wasn't just an inquiry about a certain provision of the ToS, but someone who wanted to report content in someone else's account/community: 18 hours.

You sure you want this job? *g*

[umadoshi]

(The answer was "so don't look at it, then!")

That made my morning. ^_^

[isis]

\o/ to the eleventy-billionth!

[kass]

PayPal is a pain in the ass, for sure.

But go you!!! *\o/*!

Re: Google Checkout System?

[bubba]

I thought Mark said that you guys couldn't use Google Checkout?

[turlough]

(The answer was "so don't look at it, then!")

Excellent answer :-)

I cannot wait to get the enhanced version of the stats page finished

I'm looking forward to that! I can't decide if it's just an optical illusion or if it's true that the userbase has become markedly younger after open beta started.

[oncelikeshari]

Well done!

And I can now cross post here from my Semagic so I am especially happy!

[boji]

Maybe it's just my corner of LJ - but a significant swathe of my f-list moved, is still moving in, sees this as a vacation home, or a bolt hole, or (as I'm personally becoming convinced) realizing that this will be home and LJ will truly become the stuff of dodo's.

Thank you for making your fantastic dream a reality and inviting us all to come play.

[janinedog]

Disagree!

[athra]

You guys are awesome. ♥