I’ve been a really busy beaver for quite some time now preparing the site for a move to a new home. Very early testing has begun with me and the ‘elves’ and a few more will join soon. It’s been quite an undertaking.
I will turn off the Invite in about a week, and will turn it on once the move is over and I have e-mail working in some capacity, as that is part of the invite mechanism.
Currently, no e-mail reminders. I really want e-mail for password reminders, mainly, when somebody requests it. I haven’t decided if e-mail reminders are really worthwhile. I know a lot of people use them; surely they don’t need them, right? It’s led to us being banned from some prominent domains like gmail.com because there are so many similar looking messages going out.
Anyhoo… I don’t want people flooding to the new site yet, you are all blocked anyway, for the moment. I’ll announce the new site ON the old site (so it doesn’t get vacuumed up here by robots and AI engines).
At some point within a few weeks, I’ll suspend the old site with a ‘stay tuned’ message, move all the dynamic data to the new site, change the ‘stay tuned’ to a page with the new link, plus the password retrieval in case you don’t remember your PW.
Lastly, to make sure the e-mail reminder works if YOU need it, update your Settings on both Chez and Glad (if you have accounts on both), and make sure your e-mail address is VALID (no typos; and ONLY ONE e-mail address!). Anything other than your single valid e-mail address simply will simply not work!
Virtually everything about the new ‘sites’ will be the same as now. I changed the backgrounds for both chez and glad, and they will both run on the same single domain now. But otherwise, it’s largely the same look and feel we all love for it’s simplicity, or loath for it’s simplicity but play there anyway!
