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Thanks for your patience, we're chatting again.

Thanks to zax827 for the heads-up that our chat rooms disappeared for most of our members! Since I wasn't affected, I didn't see it, though I wondered why it had gotten so quiet. 😀

It looks like only staff members can access the chat at the moment. I wrote the providers of our chat rooms and discussion boards to ask what happened. I'm sorry for the interruption; in the meantime, the conversations are still going on. Hope you can connect with like-minded friends there and get back to live chat with them soon.

Jeff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7SNEdjftnoI traded in the Patreon API this week for the mercifully so-much-better Discourse API, and, darn it, y'all got flair in the process. 👍Translation:While htt...

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How was your weekend? Mine's still going on, thanks to the incomplete and poorly-documented Patreon API. 😕 I sat down with it Saturday, and I'm still fighting with parts of it. But keeping your acco...

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I made some updates to the site which broke access to everyone's messages today. I fixed the problem, and you should be able to see your inbox again. Let us know if you still can't get in.

Thanks for your patience!
Jeff

Once Up A Time, OlderGay.Men had an account on Facebook. We posted updates there and replied to Facebook users' questions. Five years ago, questions arose about whether Facebook was a healthy place to be. I effectively closed my personal account after a final straw and deleted OlderGay.Men's presence there.

We did continue on Twitter, but it looks like that's coming to an end as well, at least for now. We've been receiving notices for weeks from Front, the company that helps us track problems for our members, that they're removing Twitter as a communications channel because Twitter is increasing the cost of API access beyond what they can support. In recent days, Twitter notified us that we could no longer...

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You'll now see a "What's New" button at the top of each page that will pop in a window into some of what's happening around the site. Hope it helps you find even more friends and fun.

Jeff

I added two new categories to our discussion boards:

1. Sex
2. Personal Ads

I wrote something about the rationale for each in the "About This Category" notes at the tops of the sections. Basically, there are a lot of posts that fall into these two categories, and I thought that putting them together would help prevent them from overwhelming other topics without stifling discussion. If you want to be a moderator and help move new posts to the right place, just let me know!

Jeff

If you're a regular user of OlderGay.Men, I'm sure you've noticed much amiss lately. I've made some upgrades in the last couple of weeks which fixed many things and broke others, so I fixed those problems, each of which spawned two more, and...

I just wanted to pop in and reassure you that I'm more aware of it all than you are. 😄 I thought I had the worst annoyances under control before I went on a trip, but there were problems my tests didn't catch, and the whole cycle fired up again. I worked on it as I could, and I'm devoting more time to it now that I'm home.

I delayed posting this, waiting until I was sure the newsletter was reliable again so this would reach everyone. I'm sorry I waited; I'm glad if you're seeing it now. While you wait for full service to resume, you can drop in to the live chat system we're trying out. You'll find me there cursing with updates about the latest inscrutable bug.

As always, the good...

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I posted a note about the latest work on the site:https://oldergay.men/news/rough-goingThanks to all of you especially for your patience. I hope this will be a weekend of squaring it all away.

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