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

[boosette]

* 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!")

This is awesome.

(I do have a request for clarification, though: Is this response is for People Offended By Content That's Allowed rather than reports of actual violations of the TOS?)

[starwatcher]

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The stats page *is* nifty. But I was bummed to see the age graph cut off at 55; I turned 57 a month ago, and I know I'm not the oldest on my flist. Please, could the age range go up to 75 or 80? Maybe 90? (Who knows how long we'll be around? <g>)
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[denise]

(I do have a request for clarification, though: Is this response is for People Offended By Content That's Allowed rather than reports of actual violations of the TOS?)

Yup, exactly. It was the usual "gross images" trollery.

[denise]

Logged a bug for that; ta!

[starwatcher]

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Y'know, these fast and agreeable responses are engendering a huge case of hero-worship over here. (Like I wasn't already hugely impressed by your intellect after reading "Freedom".) I hope your tiara fits comfortably.

IOW - thank you!
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[boosette]

"But that makes sense!" said I, "It cannot be!"

And lo, it was, and it was good.

[zoisaito]

Congratulations on all of this! I received two invite codes in my e-mail this morning and practically danced around the room, I was so excited to hand them out to friends. *facepalms* I'm so impressed by all the effort put into this and seeing everything handled in such a prompt, personal manner is just amazing. Thank you all!!

Wheeeeee!

[alaric]

You all rock! And you handled that TOS complaint Perfectly. The world needs a hell of a lot more people willing to just say "Well, don't go look at it then."

[mscongeniality]

I ♥ you guys. You're doing great work here. :)

[wintercreek]

Seconded!

[sophie]

*points you to tmi* ;)

[gorramwolf]

Utterly, totally cool job. This rocks!

[baggyeyes]

\o/ Congratulations!!

Hopefully, the Paypal (ironic name, no?) will be soon a memory... and there will be other things we'll be gnashing our teeth over :) But quite so badly.

But, yeah! DW is open!

[eva]

Exact same thing for me - I had a Paypal account, but I have read stuff about them that doesn't make me want to have anything to do with them, and mail orders from here really</> aren't that practical. So I'll wait patiently until there's another way of getting rid of my money.

[amaliedageek]

lalalalalala I can't hear you I am not listening

[amaliedageek]

Sara, if he and Janine get to your guest room before I do I will sulk. Loudly. In public.

(I don't snore.)

[nonnie]

It's awesome to see how excited you are to do all this. :3

Although I do agree, Paypal is a pain more than anything. Mostly because I can't remember my password and it refuses to give it to me.

[bethctg]

Indeed! lol

[sara]

You're going to have to limit yourself to couch surfing with people who have spare rooms, is all. Or maybe bring earplugs as a guest gift.

[we_are_spc]

You're welcome!

And BTW the people I invited are awesomesauce. :d I won'g give usernames, but just know that they are. :d

-P

[sara]

You know that Black Sheep is coming up at the end of next month, right?

[chrismm]

mark snores like a freight train.

Some of the best people do. My mom, for instance. :DDDD

[deane]

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

As a bit of a stats geek, it would be interesting to know the breakdown between the various account types: free, paid, premium paid and seed.

Will the enhanced version of the stats have that?

[denise]

I, uh, suspect the answer to that is "it's a bug". *G*

[denise]

Yes indeed!