The State of Scribbld 2012

I apologize everyone for the lack of updates on the website. I've been extremely busy with work and other projects that have just consumed so much of my time. One site and project I've been spending a lot of time on lately is MyVideoGameList.com. It allows anyone to sign up for an account and track their video games they're playing or have played before.

The biggest issue with Scribbld is that the LiveJournal coding and development team make it very very hard for anyone using their code to run their own website and stay updated with their codebase. We have fallen so incredibly far behind it's almost near impossible to update our codebase to be identical with theirs. It's likely we actually will never be able too. They also make it far too difficult to upgrade and keep the customizations you've done in place.

There's a few things however that I would like to accomplish before throwing in the towel (let's just hope it doesn't come to this.) I would like to get reCaptcha working for signups because it's pretty obvious the current captcha system isn't working and massive amounts of spam is being sent to the site and database. I am sure we'd all appreciate a little less spam. There's also 3-4 behind the scenes things I'd like to get working or working again.

I have setup our Paid Account status checking tool as well as our purged/deleted Username list tool.

Paid Accounts Checking tool
Purged & Deleted Usernames checking tool

I should also mention our status website has been re-setup and shows real-time statuses of the system services - http://status.scribbld.net

I hope everyone is well, and welcome to all of our new users and hello again to my old users and friends. I will definitely try to keep more of eye on Scribbld from here on out.

Thank you everyone!

~ Jimmy & Morgan

Current Location Cypress, TX
Current Mood busy
Current Music Kruder & Dorfmeister - Original Bedroom Rockers