New AvaxHome feature:
YOUR blog @ AvaxHome
FREE for all registered AvaxHome users
Background
With launch of the new AvaxHome software 3.0 on February 28th, 2006 we needed to concentrate on higher performance, so some features of the older software like the so called "user pages" had been removed. This resulted in the problem that many publishers did include large lists of all their other AvaxHome publications in each new publication. We had to forbid this, because such lists create tons of wrong hits for everyone using the search engine.
As part of the next AvaxHome software, our coders provided some new scripts we are internal testing since about 6 weeks. But it is hard to keep a secret when Google is watching and it is even harder to tell AvaxHome publishers NOT to use an undocumented feature of AvaxHome Google did reveal to them :-)
So, instead of waiting for the next software release, we decided to give this new feature NOW to all our fine members.
Syntax
http://avaxhome.ws/blogs/UserName
For users
Whenever you want to see the publications of one of our users, you just replace "UserName" with the name of the publisher. For example:
http://avaxhome.ws/blogs/Avax
http://avaxhome.ws/blogs/torai
http://avaxhome.ws/blogs/bearwil
http://avaxhome.ws/blogs/FNB47
http://avaxhome.ws/blogs/iceshoweronfire
and so on.
These are just 5 examples. Sorry to all the thousands of other great publishers not given as example - please don't kill us for that :-)
For publishers
The blog feature is free of charge .-) ad it is automatically created by our software.
If you already published with us, your blog already exists. If you have no blog page it simply means that it is time to create at least one publication :-)
You are free to publish the URL to your blog inside of new publications. This gives every user and visitor full access to all your publications. Lists of "my other AvaxHome publications" are forbidden since summer last year and now do not even make any sense.
You are free to publish the URL to your blog everywhere you like - on other blogs, on other websites etc.
Your blog pages are automatically updated from our software whenever you create new publications. There is nothing you need to do yourself. Just create publications like you did before.
As all publications are part of AvaxHome, they need to follow our guidelines given in the FAQ. So, forbidden content (like porn movies, nazi propaganda etc.) will still be refused by our moderators and cannot be part of your blog.
Known problems & bugs
As explained above in the "Background" text, this feature was not planned to be launched so quick. There are currently still known bugs and problems:
The current scripts still have the same bug as the search engine - we try to fix it soon.
The username must fit url style. Usernames ontaining special characters either need special encoding or are not supported so far. For example: Usernames including blanks like "Ice Zero" need to be encoded as "Ice%20Zero". Usernames including dots like "FNB.47" are currently not supported, no matter of encoding the dot as %2e. Please keep in mind that not we did select such creative usernames for you :-)
OK, that's all for now. Hope you like your own blog @ AvaxHome.
Your AvaxHome Team
go AvaX team go
It shows all news of a particular user
This will be a real boon. I missed being able to search the old publications of particular individual.
No doubt that the Avax team "runs" the extra mile to leave clear that they are the one and only doing what they do: Being the Best and not resting while improving "our" website.
Cheers and Thanks for all your combined efforts Avax Team Pals!!!
Я это заметил больше 10 дней назад!
И добавил ссылку на свой блог (аваксхомовский) на своей неофициальной страничке!
BTW, it would be good to set up a link to the user blog in every news posting in line (Posted by: USER).
@ Avaxianin, amir28 and a few others
We had installed these scripts for INTERNAL TESTING, to find the bugs and problems, not for public use. But more and more people "found" them and started to publish such links. We got tired of writing private mails, asking to stop publishing these links, so we gave up and announced this feature now to all of our users. No matter that the scripts are still not finshed and optimized. But we learned our lesson - other new features are now tested on a fully different website :-)
"BTW, it would be good to set up a link to the user blog in every news posting in line (Posted by: USER)."
Yep, same as it was in AvaxHome 2.x :-) The next software release will take care for that. But as our technical team is very busy with optimizing the new core engine I guess they will not show much interest in updating the old version running here.
it seems, it is time to "migrate" to my first username "FNB47"... :)
@ Up Yours
"as far as I can tel its just a quick search feature on a particular and not a BLOG at all. BLOG doesnt mean SEARCH"
From technical view it is mainly a special search based on UserID which the search engine does not allow, because usernames / IDs are not part of the indexed text.
Sure you cannot chnage the page layout, cannot use own banners or own colors. At least not in this early version. But this also means you do not have to take care for this. Even unexperienced users can have a quick start and do not have to worry doing any own administration.
And if you combine the view created by the blogs script with the already existing features, that every user can create own publications, that every user can add comments to other publications, it comes very close to an own blog.
But OK, if you guys don't like it, we can switch if off very quick ;-)
@ FNB.47
Please leave our database about 20 to 30 minutes for the full update. Then you can log in as FNB47 ... and start to create all your publications again under your new name :-))) Eh, yes, see my old mail 4 weeks ago when I already offered you this change.
Bully-the-great :))
Thanks Bully... All my publications are now converted/migrated/attached to my new username. (yep...:)) I remeber our correspondance about this username-merge-operation... OK, OK lets not start it again it is not a "merge" operation OK :)))
Thanks again Bully... as someone else once stated very well... :
y o u a r e t h e s p i r i t o f A v a x h o m e
FNB47
now i won't need to bookmark FNB47's movies that I intend to d/l only later...
thank you avaxhome!
Now I have just bookmarked hiw very own page.
hey bully...if I were you I'd get some extra ads on his page ;)
Good idea eh?
Just drop something in the mail for me for that one OK.
About this blog business..
I see it here said it is not a PROPER BLOG!
Maybe true you know. *checks wikipedia*
*finds nothing of interest*
Anyway..!
I want a proper blog!!
A blog...a real blog...all of my own...
A place to scream for attention like other blogs do!
My own special blog place...my little internet home, just for me and my ever loving audience...
Oh crap forget it :(
yet..?
A blog would be so...
so...
Well, I want a blog -
I want to give my opinionated, incoherent and confused ramblings out to anyone who will read them!
Oh yeah, I can do that in comments...
Oh and Bully, thanks for the blog.
(even though it be not a fully & technically qualified 'blog', it is a very wise and useful addition to the AvaxSphere.
(see what I did there? I replaced blogoshpere with...)
Fa.
You made my day dear fellows!
Thank you in many ways and
keep going. Sky is the limit.
In my announcement I'd spell it "AvaxFear"
@ FNB47
"y o u a r e t h e s p i r i t o f A v a x h o m e"
TDz would call me nightmare instead of spirit :-))
OK, more serious. I'm just a little wheel among other wheels and ALL wheels are needed to keep AvaxHome running. OK, I regular reminded TDz for 12 months :-) that we need to have the user pages back, but the great idea to link the scripts also to a pseudo URL like /blogs/ was TDz's idea, not mine.
The REAL spirit of AvaxHome was and is Avax. (Just to make sure for everyone: AvaxHome is the community, Avax is a real person!)
@ Fa
"hey bully...if I were you I'd get some extra ads on his page ;)"
Be cautious with such wishes! If torai reads it, they will soon come true :-))
About the "blog": Yep, of course this is not a normal personal blog where you should write your daily diary so no-one allover the world is missing any important news :-) If people want such a blog, they can get it at many places.
AvaxHome is a community of many great people. Some people like FNB47 publish there fine collections exclusive here. Giving them an own url like avaxhome.ws/blogs/FNB47 is just to honor their work.
Of course these new blogs are not as flexible as your full own blog just hosted by a server. They are a PART of AvaxHome and bound to AvaxHome rules for content. But they are easy to handle, no administration by the users, all publications are automatically added etc. And everything published on the blog is also automatically published at AvaxHome itself, which means that about 1 million of people will see it. Everyone running his own full blog and watching the view counter will know very well how hard it is to bring many people to his own site :-)
Last not least, it's an offer, no force.
Big thanks for that.
By the way: call it blog, user page or whatever: it´s just good.
So now I'm a blogger too...
;-)
all my post and of those who i like, just so easy.
:kiss: :kiss: :kiss: :kiss:
and thanks tooooooooooooooooooooooo.
well bugs are always welkom ;-)
Coupled with the increasing number of poor posts that slip through (misrepresented software, duplicates, and the like) maybe it would be better to fix what's available rather than add things right now. I still like this place, I would just like to suggest alternative ways to improve it.
@ synapsedkb and all publishers
No matter that the FAQ clearly describes all posibilities what can happen to a new publication, some publishers still do not understand how AvaxHome works :-) The next lines are just a global summary for ALL publishers - without more details it is hard to check what happened in your case.
1. Each new created publication automatically goes to a waiting queue until one of our moderators checks it. We try to keep this delay short, but none of us can stay online 24 hours a day. Every publisher can check if his publicaton is still in the waiting queue with:
http://avaxhome.ws/post.php?t=premoded
2. When a moderator handles the new publication, it is either confirmed to go public or if something is wrong it is refused, telling the publisher in the refuse text what he/she needs to change. Every publisher can and should check the resuded list with:
http://avaxhome.ws/post.php?t=refused
If a publication is refused for forbidden content (like trying to publish porn movies): No way. It just proves that you either did not read our rules or you try to ignore them.
If a publication is refused because of a duplicate posting (you posted the same content someone else did earlier and the orginal links are still working fine): No way. It just proves that you did not spend the time to check with the search engine before posting.
If a publication is refused for missing information: Just create same publication again (a new one!), but incldue the missing data as described in the refuse reason text. Tha FAQ clearly lists what info is neededfor all types of publications.
Sometimes, special at high traffic and low moderator time, publications with missing information or with careless formatting are not refused. They go public in all fitting categories, but we will not promote such publications additional at our main pages (Home).
3. AFTER a publication is processed by the moderators, there is just one reason why it "disappears" from main pages: You removed it yourself from main pages. :-) At same moment a publisher does any changes to a confirmed publication, our software automatically removes its activation and it is no longer shown on our main paes. This is a needed security feature to avoid abuse (like changing a publication to fully different forbidden content). The FAQ clearly describes that a publisher should send a mail to one of our mods, including the URL of the changed publication. The moderatorchecks it again and if it is OK it will be re-activated and after a short delay it will be back to main pages.
I don't know WHICH was the case with synapsedkb's publication, but it must have been one of the above.
We currently have a bug in one of the scripts used by the search engine and the new blogs function which sometimes shows publications which should not been shown (refused publications), so seeing a publöication with search engine is no 100% proof that it is really confirmed for public access.
To sum up: If a publication does not show up on main pages, you can be rather sure that the reason can be found in what you did or forgot to do :-)
@ synapsedkb
As written, my answer was a summary for ALL publishers, not special for your case. I HOPED that one of the possibilities would fit your case. If you did not re-edit after confirmation, there is still the possibility I also mentionend:
"Sometimes, special at high traffic and low moderator time, publications with missing information or with careless formatting are not refused. They go public in all fitting categories, but we will not promote such publications additional at our main pages (Home)."
From my own expirience I can tell you that over 50 % of new publications are done in a careless sytle, with broken tags, with no formatting, with too short or much too long text in promote and so on. When I have such a publication on my screen, I often spend my time to bring it to a better shape, so it better fits to other publications on main pages. But this takes time. And when I spend 5 or 10 minutes on such a publication it simply means that all other new publications have to wait and wait and wait to be processed. Some other moderators see this different. They follow the view: "If the publisher is too lazy to make a good looking, perfect publication, why should we spend our time?" And somehow I can understand this view. The main pages are the top of AvaxHome, what every visitor sees first. So we exspect at least some level of quality there. This includes that publications follow the optical look-and-feel of AvaxHome. The main page is what we should be proud of, not a trashcan.
As written, I often spend my time with such re-edits, to be able to additional link such a publication to main pages. And whenever I do this, I HOPE the publisher will notice the changes, think about it and will do better next time. It is sad, but it is a fact that some publishers sees this different. They go on like before, trusting that one of us will spend his time to do heir work. If this happens opften, I either send tsuch publishers a mail or in worst case I refuse to get their attention. Other moderators might not waste thweir time, they cionfirm it if all info are incldued, but do not additional include on main pages.
Just to make sure: The main pages NEVER had been a full list of all publications. Just opposite! The main pages had been a collection of the new highlights, of the real great publications, so that users with short time do not have to browse over 10 or maore pages just to find the real good stuuf. But of course every publisher sees his/her publication as the best of all :-) Thre was no day we did not receive private mails begging to include a publication on main pages, arguing why one publication is there and another one not and so on. So somehow we gave up and finally add almost anything, which is at least in good optical style, additional to main pages. But there still is no "birthright" for additional promote on main pages.
If a publisher takes the time to make a good looking publication, including all needed info, he can be very sure it will show up on main pages. If a publisher spends just a few seconds to copy and paste from another website, does not even take the time to do a PREVIEW, there should be no big surprise that this publication might not show up on main pages.
Again, this is a GENERAL answer about main pages. I do not know for sure what the case was with synapsedkb's publication.
"In fact after my first Herriot post did not appear on the main pages I contacted Pasha13 (the reviewer) who agreed there is a bug"
You make this a boit too easy -). There is NO bug about missing activation on main pages. The moderator can set the flag or can decide against. Our moderators are human beings, no software. :-) There is a bug which prevents that YOU can see the status of your publication (confirmed or refused) in you "My news" and there is a bug that the search engine can show publications it should not show, but there is no bug at all about including a publication on main pages or not. I'mfully sure Pasha sees this same. :-)
" and suggested I repost the audiobook."
Sorry, this is nonsense. :-) Pasha would never suggest that you repost something which is already public. Such a repost would have to be refused by every moderator as a duplicate posting.
The only reason a moderator will tell you to create a post again is that your original post had been REFUSED! And if your first post was refused, it also is fully clear that it never appeared on main pages. And if it was refused, the moderator also did tell you WHY it was refused. Did you read the refused list after your first publication did not show up? Did you do the changes the moderator wrote in therefused list in your second posting or did you just send out the same again, ignoring the refuse reason?
Sorry, I'm not Pasha, and do not know exactly what happened. But reading these last lines from you I am rather sure that nothing else did happen as a normal refuse. And as you do not mention a refuse at all, I am rather sure you did not check the refuse list and so of course did not take care for what the moderator wrote in the refuse reason.
If this happened, I can tell you for sure that you are not alone :-) Even during the 7 months I regular did put a special publication on top of AvaxHome explaing about the refused list, I had to face mails clearly showing that some publisher still did not even know that such a list exists.
And EXACTLY THIS was the reason why I spend my time a few hours ago to write again such a summary of everything which can happen to a publication. This summary should help all publishers. There was no intention of any kind to claim that you cannot or did not read the FAQ.
PS: Don't you think such a discussion is "a bit" off-topic in a publcation about soemthing having to do nothing with main pages? From the PM I wrote to you just2 hours ago you should know that I also answer in private.
@ To ALL
There is _NO_ (repeat: _NO_) bug in our current software "stealing" main page flags. Plesae do not get confused by this discussion here.
@ synapsedkb - the final answer and the easy solution
As you still did not eevn write the URL avout the publication you compalinted, I now had a quick look on your newest posting. And even without asking Pasha I am rather sure what Pasha told you.
Pictures at AvaxHome should be in a normal size, around 300 x 300 pixels. YOUR last pictures are more like thumbnails, just 99 x 132 pixels!! Don't you see yourself how bad these little pictures would look among all the other publications with corerct large pictures?
If I would have moderated you, I would not have let you go public with these thumbnails. You should thank Pasha that he did let you go public at all instead of crying why it's not on main page or even suggesting we would have a mainpage activation bug.
To solve your problem: Just use normal sized pictures like our other publishers.
Thank you for spending so much time to explain how the system works. I'm pretty shure that this will result in more publishers and publications. I agree that a good looking publication is a must for all. The new user blog is much appreciated. ;]
To quote you:
>" and suggested I repost the audiobook."
>Sorry, this is nonsense. :-) Pasha would never suggest that you repost something which is already public. Such a repost would >have to be refused by every moderator as a duplicate posting.
This is my email from Pasha13
Date: May 1, 2007 07:51:37
From: -=Pasha13=-
Subject: My post
Message text:
| Maybe I'm crazy...when I browse the recent posts over the last two days
I do not see my publication listed. When I search for it (using Herriot) I
find it just fine. Am I doing something wrong? I have not edited it, maybe
I've got onions on my eyes.
| Thanks
Hmm, maybe it's bug, I not sure. If you want you may re-post it.
This email contains my question to Pasha and his response. I think, Bully, it is not very pleasant of you to call me a liar over a simple problem as this. My complaint all along has not been MY posts but finding all of what is posted. If you had said that only a fraction of posts ever reach the main pages, I would have understood immediately and the issue would be over for me. Instead you say I am a lazy poster, I don't care how my posts look, the moderators have to do my work for me, and that I am a liar. I don't need that kind of bullshit from you or anyone else. I have tried to support AH through original posts that are not being submitted by anyone else. I have been refused a few times, I've happily fixed whatever was wrong, and moved on.
However I see no reason to be subjected to personal abuse while trying to support YOUR enterprise. I don't get anything from this. I don't sell advertisements, some of which injure the users computers, I don't use cheap redirection schemes like ftp2share, I simply post in the hope someone else will find it useful or entertaining.
Accordingly, go abuse someone else. I see no need to stray here and be called a liar. i shall post here no more. No big loss, to be sure, but how many more will you abuse over a simple technical issue.
Date: May 1, 2007 23:43:22
From: -=Pasha13=-
Subject: My post
Message text:
| It's much more than just my post. Yesterday I found many posts that
showed up only under a specific search (3books, video, music, etc) but not
when general | |browsing. I think I'll wait until this gets
straightened out.
It's a bug, a new engine ready now, so be patient :)
@ synapsedkb
OK, Let's try to approach the problem from a different start :-)
"Maybe I'm crazy...when I browse the recent posts over the last two days I do not see my publication listed."
You see, you did not talk about main pages, like you did here, you told Pasha that you do not see your post. For anyone of us this means "The publication was refused." So the short answer is "post it again".
"When I search for it (using Herriot) I
find it just fine."
This is a real bug we currently have. The SEARCH function has problems analyzing publication status. Refused publications should of course not be listed by search, but currently it can happen. We all know this, so Pasha also talked about bug.
OK, Pasha's answer to you might have been a bit longer, telling in more detail. But, as you see, currently Pasha is doing almost all moderation - this really keeps him busy :-), there is no time for long private talks. Besides, Pasha's native language is russian language, not english, so he already has to spend more time when answering in english.
You see, normally I also would not have answered your original question in such a long and detailed form. When someone asks me "Where is my new publication" I most times just send out the link tzo the refused list and ask this user to check it :-) But you brought up this question in public, at a very prominent place linked at top of our pages and - as I know very well from my daily mails, many publishers do not fully understand how posting works in detail. That was the reason why I wrote such a large summary, not only for your question, but for all other publishers who might at least forgot or oversaw some part of it. I think it is worth that every publisher fully understands how AvaxHome works, because this will help to find own soultions when a problem shows up. This means less work for our team and quicker solution for the publisher. Words like "as clearly written in the FAQ" were not to offend you, itwas just a reminder that what I explain is not new, that it is even explained in the FAQ.
But back to your main question: The answer anyone of us can give to help solve a problem fully depends on the info given to us. Without telling us at least the URL of a page with problems, we only can write what MIGHT be or what the most fitting answer from our view is. It is also a big difference if we have to talk about a publication not showing up at all (-> refused) or just not showing up at main pages. If you look again at the "info" you gave to Pasha in your mail, he only could use his crystal ball to give an answer :-)
OK, I really would like to stop here, so I make you an offer: You upload a normal sized picture for your publication, edit the IMG tag to the new picture number and send me the URL and I will place your publication on main pages myself.
@ fine
"You are not far away from what I call 'spaming' :-)"
Hehehe, yep, banning a user for spmaiing is much less work as writingng long answers :-)) But what you see here is nothing unusual - for us it is part of our daily lifes. The only difference is, that normally such talks are done in PMs instead of public.
"Please, if really neccessary, continue your discussion via PM."
To make sure he fully understands let me enhance your words a bit:
"Please, if really neccessary, continue your discussion via PM to fine." ;-)
I've published not as much I would like to due to certain physical condition that restrains me, but when I've done it I have never had a problem; I take all the necessary time to edit each of them over and over until I feel satisfied and only then is when I put it to the moderator consideration for approval, normally it's posted within matter of a couple of hours or less and basicly with no corrections.
I don't understand why a collegue makes a big deal out of a such minute issue, specially when the reason/solution for the problem has been found (I'm sure it took lot of research and time from Bully to find it).
Let's continue working all together and keep looking towards the inmediate future for better things to happen that will benefit not only the Avax comunnity but much far beyond.
Thanks Bully for lecturing us into the Avax principles, for investing your time investigating and solving issues here and there and over all for being that good friend that makes himself available right away when any of us needs a helping hand.
Best wishes to everyone and thanks for making yourselves present with your opinions and posts!
(*_~)