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News Entry Date: 4/29/2000 12:21pm

Today I added ranged displays for everything I could think of. This will help to keep the page loading down to a minimum for everyone. It should make it a lot faster loading things like news and comments. Also, viewing someone's poems or your own... If you have more than the limit it will split your screens up like it does with the "View ALL Poems" display. Take care... I hope you like the new changes :) -Chris

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News Entry Date: 4/27/2000 11:03pm

Tonight was wonderful. I actually got to read some poems and write a few critiques. I want to thank each of you for everything you have done in helping to build this site into something beautiful. I could never even imagine how wonderful a place The Poetic Link would become. All I really did was build the frame, but you my friends, built the house and filled it with love. I am utterly amazed every single time I enter my site, to find just how much it has grown. God... I had searched for so long to find a truly devoted Poetry site and finally after never finding what I was looking for, decided to build it myself. I would never have believed it would become something this powerful. I read your work, your critiques, your comments and am entirely amazed. Your dedication, hard work, and honest feedback to one another has truly been a marvelous thing to see. I wish there was some way we could reach EVERY poet out there who was searching for some REAL feedback and some REAL help with their work. They would surely find it here with all of you! Slow and steady we shall grow! -Chris

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News Entry Date: 4/25/2000 2:40pm

I have added an advertising banner to the View Poem page in hopes of generating some extra funds for The Poetic Link. I know many of you do NOT like banners and I have definitely done my best to keep them to a minimum. They do not appear anywhere but the main page and now 1 is in the View Poems page. I hope you can all understand and live with this additional banner. If not please write to me and I will consider removing it. -Chris

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News Entry Date: 4/24/2000 1:55am

Holy Cow... I am so happy right now. I just finished indexing EVERY SINGLE POEM on The Poetic Link. Yes Folks... Everything that has ever been published here is now in our Poetry Database. 629 Poems & Counting... WOW! This includes My Poetry as well as the 1997, 1999 & 2000 Old System Poetry. EVERYTHING is now in the Database and Searchable. You can also Critique Old poems if you like. If you critique an old poem, you will not get any points, and will probably not even get a response from the author. But the functionality is there. The exception to that of course, is My Poetry. If you critique anything of mine you WILL get responses. One last thing. If some of your OLD work is NOT linked to your User_ID... let me know. I will work at linking existing members to ANY old work that they have in the system. -Chris

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News Entry Date: 4/23/2000 2:20pm

Well I just did something amazing! I have loaded ALL of the OLD System Poetry into the Database! This means you can now search on ANY poems written in the Old Days :) Way back to 1997 even. 197 Historical Poems were added to the Database today. I will be revising the Search Engine to remove the part about NOT being able to search the old poems, since you can now do it. If you have old poems in the system... notify me of their Poem Numbers (NOT NAME) and I will transfer the old poem into your User_ID. You can determine a Poem's Number by simply looking at the Link (shown at the bottom left of your browser) as you put the cursor over the Poem Name. You can also determine a Poem's Number by looking at the Address Bar while Viewing the Poem. -Chris

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News Entry Date: 4/22/2000 5:54pm

Well it's finally installed!!! Woohoo... Now I want all of you to rush out there and find some really good uses for it. -Confused!? I'm talking about THE POETIC LINK SEARCH ENGINE! It's very nice if I do say so myself. I am sure there will be a few tweaks to come shortly, but give it a try and send me feedback :) -Chris

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News Entry Date: 4/21/2000 1:59am

Hi guys. I did a bit of minor adjusting today, nothing major only cosmetic. I am looking into the problem with connections. It appears that there are only 90 available connections on the server at any given time. As The Poetic Link becomes more and more popular, I fear this may start to cause a problem. I am working with my Web Host on addressing this issue. I hope to have it resolved shortly. For now if you get a error: "Too many Connections" just try again. I am still working on the Search Engine. I hope to have it finished shortly. There will be so many poems on here soon that we will definitely need a search engine :) These are GOOD problems!

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News Entry Date: 4/18/2000 11:49pm

Well I had to fix a small bug this evening. It was the first reported bug we have had. I think that's a pretty good track record. I was able to correct it rather quickly so no harm was done. Basically, there was some poor search logic in a program and I needed to re-write it to be more efficient with regard to memory use. No data was lost, it was only keeping people from viewing Critiques on their poems. If anyone hits any more error messages please let me know immediately. Thank You, -Chris

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News Entry Date: 4/16/2000 11:17pm

You may have noticed that the number of members suddenly dropped from 416 down to 233. Well I realized that I was reporting the TOTAL number of users who have tried to join. That is an incorrect number to reflect active members. The REAL number of Active members is what counts. That is the people who have actually VALIDATED their e-mail addresses and can participate in the web page activities. Sorry for any confusion, but the number is now correctly reflecting ACTIVE members of The Poetic Link, as it should have been all along.

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News Entry Date: 4/16/2000 3:59pm

I have added a really nice Comment Interface for people to post their comments about the The Poetic Link. Good or Bad ...it does not matter, as long as they are TRUE. I have absolutely nothing to hide. I am working so hard to give you guys every little thing that I can think of to make your visit nicer and more pleasurable. I am not sure what you all think of the page so I am anxious to see the comments page start filling up. -Chris

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