Re: February 2010 – The missing eggsplanation!

I wanted to take this opportunity to explain why there wasn’t a Good Egg Award given out for February. As I know many of you folks are aware, we have experienced a number of gremlins this past couple of months as we find our feet getting the site functioning to the best of it’s potential, registration issues, pictures and posts vanishing and such like - it's equally frustrating at this end and thats why we thought it illogical to give out a GEA for February. As the wildlife team know as much about website technicalities as the birds do, all I can say is this, I assure you that our technical support staff are making steps to resolve the server issues we have all been experiencing.

The good news is that the community has grown far faster than we ever expected! On the flip side, our old world severs struggle to keep up and get confused quite easily you see. So in short, and as primarily a conservation charity were not at a level where we expect everything to run as smoothly as say facebook (who also have there fair share of issues!). We will obviously continue making every effort to ensure that you all can use the site as intended, with minimal errors but please do bear with us!

Lloyd

Thanks Lloyd!! I don't envy those techies one bit!! Running websites and forums must be such a challenge! The main thing is that it is being looked into and hopefully will eventually be resolved!! Thanks for keeping us updated and have a great Easter weekend!!

Thanks MarJus! We promise to keep you all updated with as much as we know and likewise hope you enjoy Easter as well. Could do with a bit more in the way of sunshine mind!

Thanks Lloyd for keeping us updated. I have to say the forums are running much more smoothly now, and (touch wood) the pictures in the posts are staying put. Happy Easter.

Hi Lloyd

Thank you for keeping up all up to date here

Forums are not easiest to run at the best of times, and are time consuming and expensive (depending how you view it)

Hope that the Gremlins disappear soon never to be seen again

Regards

Kathy and Dave

LloydScott

Could do with a bit more in the way of sunshine mind!

Tell me about it....!

Thanks for the update, Lloyd!  I wouldn't have a clue with regards to managing a forum or community-based website but can appreciate its hard work!

It certainly is Paul. I am a Moderator on one and a Super Moderator on another and to do it properly you need to read every single post - that's in between watching the birds, of course, (being the reason I have my computer in front of the window and my cameras next to my computer). Got a feeling there may be a vacuum cleaner and something called polish somewhere in the house but neither see the light of day very often LOL. 

Squirrel

It certainly is Paul. I am a Moderator on one and a Super Moderator on another and to do it properly you need to read every single post - that's in between watching the birds, of course, (being the reason I have my computer in front of the window and my cameras next to my computer). Got a feeling there may be a vacuum cleaner and something called polish somewhere in the house but neither see the light of day very often LOL. 

LOL!  Well its perfectly understandable that they're hidden away - you'd be far too busy!

Thanks for the update Lloyd and a very happy Easter to you.

SB

Many thanks. I have noticed a huge difference and photos are even staying in the Gallery. Well done to all the team, they take the moans so they should take the thanks.

Thanks for updating us Lloyd. Do have a very Happy Easter.

Hi Lloyd

I had to read this because of the quirky title :-)

The picture issues have definitely improved for me. I can't imagine what it's like to try to run a forum like this.

I hope that you have a Happy Easter too, mind you the sunshine might not be around too much in the South until Sunday.

Best wishes Chris