Updates: March 2001
March 31, 2001 at 5:20PM Eastern Time
I added a contest to Fun Land and a
button to the Form of DOOM!!! In Contact and
Your Zone, you can now sign-up for the MSROCAI
Newsletter. Now, tommorrow I plan to have some new fanfics of MINE
up...and I ain't talking Dragon War, I am talking HUMOR!!! I just realized
that I have about five fanfics n progress, but I forgot about them. So,
tomorrow being April Fool's Day...
March 30, 2001 at 10:15PM Eastern Time
I made a quick update to the links
page. Apparently Ginga Giri Giri cost Planet Namek over $1,000 in server
fees, and add that to Planet Namek's already outrageous bills, and MrE had to
kick GGG off. But, GGG has a new home. See you all later.
March 30, 2001 at 7:00PM Eastern Time
For the past couple of weeks, I have been working on the
sections of MSROCAI. For starters, I added a lot of content to
Site Info and gave it some layout updates. I
REALLY suggest you go check it out because it has a lot of important info (Anime
Viper, this is where you will find out why I am not accepting fanfic
submissions). Old Updates has a few more
entries and there are new polls in the Voting Booth
(subsequently there is new material in the Voting
Archive). Your Zone has been toyed with
minorly, but the MSROCAI Chat and MSROCAI Board located there have been
fixed-up. Knowledge, Contact
Info, and Insanity just got a few coding changes,
nothing worth noting. Other Stuff and
About Me have some new content. The biggest
updates are probably in Links and
Fun Land. Links has a lot more links, a
submission feature, a link to me feature, and imporved navigation.
Fun Stuff finally has a little toy inside of it, the Form
of Doom. I hightly suggest you go play with that monster. That is it
for now, but expect more soon!
March 30, 2001 at 4:45PM Eastern Time
As some of you may know, I have had a few issuses with
MSROCAI lately. Two weekends ago, I discovered that after a long night of
FTP'ing, my Tripod account, and therefore MSROCAI, were gone. I e-mailed
Tripod, and a couple of days later, I got this official explanation.
Dear Tripod member:
Over the past weekend, Tripod experienced a technical problem with one of our
automated
scripts. This error resulted in the removal of several legitimate member
accounts. We
assure you that your site was not singled out for any personal reason, nor was
it deleted
because of its subject matter. Bugs are indescriminate and target everyone
equally, no
matter who they are or what they are passionate about.
We would like to take this opportunity to apologize for any inconvenience this
may have caused
you. We certainly understand how much time, effort and care goes into our
members' sites, and
are working steadily to reverse the problem.
We have already begun the process of restoring Tripod accounts. We expect this
to be complete
within the next 48 hours. You will receive a confirmation email once your site
has been
restored.
If you emailed Tripod concerning another service or abuse issue, we ask that
you resubmit this
request using one of the following addresses:
Abuse issue: abuse@tripod.com
General Questions: membership@tripod.com
Thank you for your patience in this matter. We are grateful for your loyalty
to the Tripod
service and we value your membership.
The Tripod Team
I hope that clears everything up. I was really
scared when it happened, and frantically searched for a new host, fearing my
account had been intentionally deleted. I was at FortuneCity for a few
days, but there screwed-up banners outweighed there 100megs of space (compared
to 50 here), and as soon as I got the above e-mail, I scrambled back here.
So, here I am!
Now that that is all cleared up, I can get
back tp updating. I have some things in store for this weekend.
March 17, 2001 at 10:45PM Eastern Time
I am so sorry about any
inconveniences that have been caused by the movement of MSROCAI!
For those of you that don't know
the whole story, here it is. First of all, I have kept MSROCAI on a lot of
different hosts. Xoom was the first one, but I left there because of
horrible FTP'ing and my images never worked. From there I went to
Geocities, where I was quickly repelled by the stupid ad in the corner of every
page. I then went to Homestead, but left because I couldn't upload the
site that I had coded; I would have to WYSIWYG the whole thing from scratch!
Then I went to Tripod, which, in my opinion, is one of the best free hosting
services out there. That opinion was mine yesterday. Last night, I
had finally finished catching up on fics and reviews, and basically had
everything from all of the contributors. Plus, I had created a bunch of
new sections. During the FTP process, I had a few errors, which I couldn't
fix unless I used Tripod's file manager; this had never happened before.
Then, after I was all done, I realized that a lot of pics were screwed up,
Mystic G's page wasn't working, and the script was mangled. After a lot of
reFTP'ing, I fixed everything. The whole time that I had been doing this,
Chelsee had been FTP'ing all of the new parts of her site to Tripod (all of her
fanfics). We both finished at about 11:30, signed off, and went off to do
our evening routine. Then, I got on this morning to see how things were
doing, and found that my site was down. I went to the Tripod site, and
found that my acocunt had been terminated because I violated the terms of
service. I e-mailed them asking why, but I have no response as of yet.
I decided to check on Chelsee's site while pondering my predicament, but to my
horror, her site and account were also gone for the same reasons! She got
on, and we spent all day telling everyone we knew to stop going to our old
adress because Tripod kicked our butts out the door. While doing this, we
searched for a new host. I thought of NBCi, which was formerly Xoom.
I spent 6 hours trying to FTP my site to NBCi, far longer than neccessary, and
stopped. I just was having the worst time FTP'ing, and thie rpages load
slower than crap! After several more hours of browsing Domain Name
services and professional hosting, both of which I don't want to pay for at this
point (well, a domain name would be nice), I found FortuneCity. 'Nuff
said. This place rocks, gives twice as much space as Tripod, and has lots
of cool features! Plus, it works! Chelsee will be moving her site
here A.S.A.P.
March 16, 2001 at 10:20PM Eastern Time
At this rate my next update
will be in May (-:
I have been REALLY busy lately,
so MSROCAI has sat unattended. But, everything is all caught up now.
I have put up too many fics and the like to list, but there is something new
from pretty much everyone. I also got all those reviews that had
been sitting around for the past month put up. In addition to all of this,
there are three new sections and one section has been laid to rest. Review
Responses is gone because I have no use for it. But Insanity, Fun
Land, and Knowledge are here now! Check 'em out. Another
section, the Chatroom, has been integrated into a broader section, Your Zone.
Lastly, the Old Updates section now has a direct link from the menu.
Enjoy.
So, to summarize, a lot of stuff has been
done. I hope to have all of the new sections filled up by the end of the
weekend and any errors caused by the mass FTP'ing tonight (there are more than
likely a few) fixed.