We won’t ban American Users dont worry. Besides which, 80% of our users are American. Probably 50% of those are under 15 (we actually don’t know of any Americans here who are under 13 – and don’t want to, at least not yet!) The comment of banning American IP addresses was more intended to show…
OK, now I know why I wasn’t experiencing the problem and others were… Our old ad provider obviously switched themselves off today, the ones who went bust that is, because it was the ad code that was causing the delay, while it tried to connect to the ad server to get an ad. I didn’t…
Bogus
If people could let me know whether their problem is now resolved, I may have some idea of what it was… Trouble is, with the sketchy ‘it isnt working’ details I have, and the fact that its working quite happily for me, its hard to pin down 🙂
I’m adding comments. As you can see at the bottom of this diary… I don’t geddit! If people can post me in email their comments and the diary they’re trying to post to, I’ll see if there’s any noticeable pattern. Steve.
My interpretation of the COPPA law is that we may actually have to do what the other diary sites have apparently done and that is to ban kids. This will suck, but there is no way we can possibly hope to get parental consent to allow their kids to post information on to the web….
This has opened up an interesting can of worms. By doing our business in the US, and having our server in the US, according to the FTC and COPPA (which is where the law is cited as requiring parental consent for collecting information about children under 13) DO have jurisdiction over us… Though I think…
Minors are perfectly allowed to write here. The law (presently) covers the US and we’re a UK company. Therefore, we’re not covered by some of the more anal of the US laws. We have plenty of those of our own in the UK! However, we are covered by EU law regarding collection of personally identifiable…
Hi folks, I recieved this (abbreviated) email this morning from our payment provider in relation to paying for our Premium Subscription; Dear Clients: iBill apologizes for the technical difficulties you have experienced over the last several days with our payment processing network. Please rest assured that transactions are still being processed through our system. Our…
I’ve been getting paged regularly in the last week to alert me to the fact that the site is (once again) slowing down. Bah, I hate when that happens. Anyway, I’ve been looking through logs and checking the systems self diagnosis and it would appear as though, on occasions, the database has been spammed with…