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Notes from the back office

Glad everyone bore with us during the one day ad roadblock. I tried to give the advertiser the maximum value while disrupting your reading as little as possible. Let us know how you'd feel about doing more of those occasionally.

We've slowly been making some changes based on some great feedback you gave us here. The static Most Popular Stories images that some complained were out of date were replaced by a dynamic listing provided by AideRSS. It attempts to divine the most popular posts from the last 30 days, using an algorithm that combines comment number, inbound links, rss readership, delicious bookmarks and twitters. It now appears on every interior page.

We added a linkroll to the home page, and it's automatic and provided by google blogsearch, so if you want to appear on there, blog about us and your site should show up for awhile.

After much user testing, we're officially soft launching the forums, and the link now appears in the top menu bar. It's the place any registered user can start their own story, so go ahead and join the conversation. If you scroll down to the bottom of the main YBNBY home page, you'll see details of the latest forum post. We still have a few forum pages to implement our design on, and a back archive to build, but would love to hear if like the new/old look.

Next on our list is improving the profile pages, updating and enhancing the T shirt store, making sure your login works for all parts of the site (I know a few of you had problems there) and introducing something new that currently has the awful title of "memetracker". May need a competition to find a better name than that

In the meantime, please keep suggestions coming in - it really helps. If you see something on another site that really seems cool, let us know and we'll see if we can continue to improve what we have here. Anyone interested in a live chat room on here, or will that just completely kill our productivity?

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Live chatroom doesn't sound like a bad idea,

next time the sides of my monitor are filled with images though, can it be bikini girls instead of Christian Slater?

said Sheriff Pablo on October 14, 2008 7:58 AM.

Only if Hawaiian Tropic do an ad buy :) But our T Shirt model just got a little more svelte, in case you didn't notice - does that count?

said Scaramouch on October 14, 2008 10:50 AM.

Senor Pablo - ask and ye shall receive. Live chat widget now over on the forum for us all to test.

said Scaramouch on October 14, 2008 11:33 AM.

so how do you convince victorias secret to do an ad buy......Hmmmmm

nice t-shirt model though

said Sheriff Pablo on October 14, 2008 12:04 PM.
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