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Usersnames Pseudonyms & Real Names - A New Approach

Wed, 01 May 2013 03:15 PST

christianblog posted:

Greetings Bloggers,Effective today, May 01, 2013, the ChristianBlog.Com website is now automatically displaying the first and last name of all new bloggers throughout the website, rather than displaying a bloggers pseudonym. All existing accounts will continue to display the bloggers username/pseudonym unless the blogger has set their account to display their name. We do encourage our bloggers to make the switch to displaying your real name, but at this point in time we are not enforcing it across all accounts.This change of the default display of a bloggers full name is a result of numerous laws being passed, and attempting to get passed, in nations throughout the world. While ChristianBlog.Com is governed by the laws of the USA, because we have members in nations outside of the USA we also have to make sure that those members who are from outside of the USA are not in violation of their...

Donations Still Accepted

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:04 PST

christianblog posted:

Greetings Bloggers,We wanted to take a moment and let all of our bloggers know that ChristianBlog.Com is still accepting donations.We have heard from some of our long time bloggers asking if we are still accepting donations now that we have become an all paid website, and the answer to that is yes, very much so!Donations, since the start of the ChristianBlog.Com website, eight years ago, has been the primary means of helping us cover our monthly costs.We knew that by going to an all paid website we would not be able to generate enough funds to cover all of our monthly bills for a fair amount of time. At our current rate of growth (financially supporting bloggers) we are looking at a minimum of 15 months before we even remotely come close to our costs as they exist today.This still leaves the website in a negative cash flow for a...

Service Updates: March 2013

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:13 PST

christianblog posted:

Greetings Bloggers, A few Service updates for March 2013.First up is that we have redesigned our visitor home page. This change came about in order to better improve the design of the home page and to resolve issues associated with the automated selection of which blogs to display.One very important aspect of this change that will effect all of our bloggers is that the very first requirement to help your own blogs get listed on the visitor home page is to add a blog photograph to your blogs the second step when creating a new blog. We are specifically looking for blogs that have photographs that are at least 200 pixels in width. An easy way to accomplish this is to use this flickr search page to help in your search for photographs to use just be sure to give the photographer due credit within the signature of your blog.The...

Update On Status Of Website Outages

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:00 PST

christianblog posted:

Greetings Bloggers,Over the last 24 hours the ChristianBlog.Com Services have suffered some downtime and other issues related to the downtime.The primary cause of this was a backup power generator that failed at a very bad time. Our primary server (a computer websites run on) is based out of Chicago and the company has redundant hardware (batteries and power generators) but unfortunately the local power company in Chicago had power outages that went well beyond what our batteries are capable of keeping power to our Server. The power going out would not normally be a problem as the generators are there to power the batteries when they get low. But in this case, the power went out, the batteries ran out, and the generator blew a hose and the combination of such resulted in the server eventually loosing power.So that explains the outages we have been having.Earlier today as our website...

New Security Feature: Account Signin History

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:36 PST

christianblog posted:

Greetings Bloggers,We have just turned on a new security feature that will allow all of our bloggers to be able to see a history of when they have signed into the ChristianBlog website.This new security feature will allow to to monitor and be aware if your account is being accessed by somebody other than yourself.Each time you sign into the website we log information about your internet connection (all websites do this) and we felt it was worth putting together this information into a format that all of our bloggers could see, to be able to make sure that their accounts are secure.The information we are displaying is the exact date and time that you signed into the CB website, your ip address, your city and country.In this screenshot below you can see a brief example of the account signin history. What we did was connect to the internet in...

Updates To CB, January 30, 2013

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:39 PST

christianblog posted:

Greetings Bloggers,Two announcements for today.The first is that we have added a new set of options for limiting the display of blogs on the home page. You can access this new feature by going to your Signin Settings page. What this new feature does is allow you to select if you want all of the blogs to be displayed (how it has always been) or if you would like to display only those blogs that have been published within the previous 24 hours, or if you would like to display only those blogs published since the last time you signed into the website. This has been a feature requested by a number of our very active bloggers to help them limit the amount of blogs that are displayed each time that they sign into the website throughout the day.The second change is that we have changed the way that we...

Removal Of Blog Privacy Option

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:43 PST

christianblog posted:

Greetings Bloggers,In our continued effort to make the ChristianBlog.Com blog publishing process as simple and streamlined as possible, to reduce the overall complexity of our website, and because we have a lot of features that are almost never used and some that are never used over the course of the next few weeks ChristianBlog.Com will be removing a number of features from our website.The first that will be removed is the 'Blog Privacy' option. This was a feature designed to allow bloggers to make their blogs viewable to (1) the entire world, (2) just their friends, or (3) just fellow CB bloggers.In looking at the usage of this feature we have realized that it is simply not being used by enough of our bloggers to justify keeping it around and adding to the overall complexity of creating blogs.Over the course of our website being online only 0.682% of the blogs...

Updates To The ChristianBlog.Com Services, 2013

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:00 PST

christianblog posted:

All of us here at ChristianBlog.Com wish you a blessed 2013! The following changes have taken place over the last few hours, as we have ushered in the 2013 new year. Please carefully review the following listed changes as some of the changes apply for some of our bloggers, and some of the changes apply for all of our bloggers.Personal Contact Information:On July 16, 2009 ChristianBlog.Com introduced the Personal Contact Information feature to our website. The PCI as it became known was the most secure means of allowing two people to share personal contact information with each other. It has continued to be one of the most secure means of doing so anywhere on the internet.The feature was originally created because our website was made up of minors and adults, and we needed a way to allow adults to share personal contact information with each other, but not allow major...

Upload Photos Directly To CB For Use In Blogs

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:29 PST

christianblog posted:

Christian Blog is happy to announce that we have activated the Upload Photos Directly To CB For Use In Blogs feature for all Tier 3 bloggers! This is a very awesome feature that allows our bloggers to be able to upload photographs and images, from their local computers, to the ChristianBlog.Com website for use within blogs, the wall, and other locations within the ChristianBlog.Com website.If you are a Tier 3 blogger you should see a new Media link at the top of the website, within the lower navigation bar. Simply press this Media link and you will be taken to a page that will allow you to upload your photographs, see how much storage space you are using, and a list of all of your uploaded photographs along with links to be able to include within your blogs.There is a limit of around three megabytes per photograph. You might be...

Feature Announcement: Allow Or Disable Blog Comments

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:42 PST

christianblog posted:

Greetings Bloggers,ChristianBlog.Com is excited to announce a new feature that will allow blog authors the ability to disable comments from being posted within their blogs.This is yet another enhancement to our already amazing list of features that control blog privacy including already existing features such as the very powerful Blog Comment Approval feature which allows bloggers the ability to approve all comments before they are made public, or our Blog Privacy feature which allows bloggers to make their blogs only viewable to friends or fellow bloggers within the ChristianBlog.Com website.This new feature is very easy to use. When you create a new blog, or if you go back and want to edit your already published blogs, you will see a new option called Allow Comments. Simply leave it as it is (default is Yes, Allow Comments) if you want to allow other bloggers to comment within your blogs, or select...

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Thu, 23 May 2013 14:28 PST

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