Just in case anyone may be concerned about slowing GC down with new posts & threads..

[John]

We all know how bogged down & slow GC was for quite some time. I'm sure nobody wants to see that happen again.

Just in case anyone may be concerned about slowing GC down with new posts & threads...

Please go ahead and post. Post new threads and messages.

Posting new messages & threads will likely have minimal impact on GC's new faster speeds. The changes I made with GC's new web hosting setup should be able to handle much more posting of threads & messages without any trouble.

And, after all, this is what forum communities are made for.

Added Bonus:

Messages & Threads that you post will help to revitalize the activity / community participation here on GreekChat. When you post more it encourages other GCers to post more.

Who else remembers back when GC had 100+ active discussions going on each day? Wouldn't it be great if we could get GC back to those levels of activity and even higher?

Anyone who wants to see that happen can help make it so. You can start now by posting a reply to this thread. Let me know if you think this is a good idea.

If even 25 GCers made a point to post a minimum of 1 message each day I think it would have a great positive impact in revitalizing & reinvigorating activity on GC. Just a short while of doing that and before you know it GC will be back to hundreds of GCers posting here daily again.

And while you're having fun doing that, I'll be working to ensure GC remains fast & gets even faster. Will do my best to keep things running quickly & smoothly.

[Phrozen Sands]

We don’t have 25 people posting Lol.

[honeychile]

John, I have an avatar that isn't showing with the new updates. How do I remove it?

[John]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

We don’t have 25 people posting Lol.

25 seemed like a good initial goal to start with. But we can start with any number

Originally Posted by honeychile

John, I have an avatar that isn't showing with the new updates. How do I remove it?

honeychile, we started having some issue with image processing or something related to avatars & profile photos a few days back. Not sure the cause. Checking into this now...

[John]

Originally Posted by honeychile

John, I have an avatar that isn't showing with the new updates. How do I remove it?

Should be all fixed up now. Please let me know if your avatar stops working again.

[cheerfulgreek]

What about advertising on Spotify or something like that. That could possibly, potentially bring more people… maybe? 🫤

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

What about advertising on Spotify or something like that. That could possibly, potentially bring more people… maybe? 🫤

You’ll be buying a shitload of John’s coffee to pay for it Lol.

[John]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

You’ll be buying a shitload of John’s coffee to pay for it Lol.

LOL, that is just too funny.

That "coffee" paid for the new server & the old server for the past 4 months, approx. So another big thank you to everyone who chipped in to help out with that.

If I had spent that money on ads GC probably would have gotten less than the number of visitors that are on GC in the average day. (I'll be posting another thread sometime relatively soon to go over recent, and maybe some past, site traffic numbers.)

Yeah, no budget for that type of advertising. For now I think the best way is to keep GC running well & fast along with lots of activity here in the forums. As much activity as we can generate. All the new activity will be picked up by the big search engines and hopefully will result in many more site visitors being sent our way without additional cost.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by John

25 seemed like a good initial goal to start with. But we can start with any number



honeychile, we started having some issue with image processing or something related to avatars & profile photos a few days back. Not sure the cause. Checking into this now...

FYI. John, I won't lose any sleep by not having an avatar.

[John]

Originally Posted by honeychile

FYI. John, I won't lose any sleep by not having an avatar.

It was no problem to sort out, though. I had this on my to-do list, anyhow. Was an easy fix.

[Pinkmagnolia921]

John, thanks so much for all of your hard work! What a fabulous surprise to have GC load so quickly!

[John]

Originally Posted by Pinkmagnolia921

John, thanks so much for all of your hard work!

Originally Posted by Pinkmagnolia921

What a fabulous surprise to have GC load so quickly!

For sure. It is absolutely so much better with the site running so fast now.

[AGDee]

Accessing the posts is so much faster it's incredible. When I just posted on a thread, it did take a really long time for it post though. That wasn't happening yesterday. Just letting you know in case there's something going on.

[AGDee]

But that post was just lightning fast so I dunno.

[John]

I've also seen posting slowdown like that a few times. With plans to change the forum software soon anyhow, I may skip investigating this issue for now unless it starts becoming a regular problem.