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Let me guess. I'm about 5 % of that? :rolleyes:

 

No sweetie. I think he's calling me fat, but diplomatically. You look just fine. ;)

 

SOME of you have rather large private message boxes. There are private conversations going back to 2002 saved!

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SOME of you have rather large private message boxes. There are private conversations going back to 2002 saved!

 

That's okay. Remember, I was an escort. I've spent more than my fair share of time in sex clubs. It's okay to be a voyeur. ;)

 

And, no. I'm not implying you'd ever try to open up anyone's package in private. Even if it's been around forever.

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While I have your attention, @RadioRob, I do plan to post something thoughtful, or at least verbose, relating to a few options to consider for ownership of the escort review site. I'm not interested in the quantity of people reading it, so much as the quality of people reading it. Meaning people who want to see that site survive and prosper, and have ideas to put forward about how to do that, basically.

 

You or somebody moved the discussion to this "site news" forum, which makes perfect sense. But I can't post a thread there. So if I want to post a thread about ownership of the escort review website, where should I do that?

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You or somebody moved the discussion to this "site news" forum, which makes perfect sense. But I can't post a thread there. So if I want to post a thread about ownership of the escort review website, where should I do that?

Creation of topics under Site News is limited to moderators/admins only in order to keep the noise down. I've set the permissions to allow replies, but initial postings are limited. The best place to post would be The Lounge.

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That's okay. Remember, I was an escort. I've spent more than my fair share of time in sex clubs. It's okay to be a voyeur. ;)

 

And, no. I'm not implying you'd ever try to open up anyone's package in private. Even if it's been around forever.

The boards themselves don't have a Private Message viewer. While I could technically view the messages themselves from the raw database, it's not very easy to do. (I would have to figure out the user ID of the person, run a query on that field, then take all of the results and sort them by age. Each individual reply is its own message record in the database. So unless I have a reason to need to do something, it honestly does not make sense. Instead of worrying about individual messages, I like to look at the trends of the data. You'll notice I've posted some stats from time to time as it is helpful to understanding the community at a macro level.

 

What times are the most popular for the site? What type of device do people use? What sections of the site receive the most views?

 

Being able to answer these types of questions is important to helping grow the community.

 

By the way... in terms of new user registrations... it looks like while COVID put a hampering on many hirings, it did not dampen the interest. Starting in May of last year, we have seen a significant increase in user signups. (These do not include registrations blocked/denied to spammers.)

 

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Being able to answer these types of questions is important to helping grow the community.

 

An interesting choice of words. I agree with you that helping grow the community is a good objective. That said, it would be reasonable to feel perhaps less is more.

 

My fear, which I know is shared by other escorts, is that if that escort review website goes away, it doesn't help this website. Shrinkage on either or both websites is bad for escorts. That's not my own concern anymore, but I know it is for others. My other foundational view is that growth is a good thing in itself, because the bigger we are the stronger we are and the less vulnerable we are.

 

Similar Web Message-forum.net

 

I didn't even know sites like that existed until Bill turned me on to them. On the face of it, this site has taken a hit in number of visitors the last few months since Bill died and the review website went dormant. On Similar Web I can't pull up data on Daddy's Reviews anymore. Prior to Bill's death, I hadn't look at these measurement sites in years. So I have no basis for a historical comparison. I also don't know whether there is a seasonality to it. When I checked back in a few months ago I think the October visitor numbers were similar to where they are now for April. So it could be this site gets more visitors in the Winter, simply because that is when people are indoors more.

 

This website is ranked #4,262 currently out of all "adult" websites. If you compare it to the other sites most frequently visited by visitors to this site, they are either escorting or porn sites. No surprise there. This site has about 5 % of the traffic of Rent Men in April versus about 10 % of RentMen's traffic in December.

 

I bring this up because I have had discussions with people who say it might actually be better to cut the cords with the review website. The thinking is that it creates risk for this website that would otherwise not be there. I don't think the facts bear that out. Even without Daddy's on the radar right now, this site is linked to these other sites like RentMen. So one way or the other we're in the public box of an adult site tied to escorting.

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SOME of you have rather large private message boxes. There are private conversations going back to 2002 saved!

I may have missed something but my observation is that it's not possible to delete a private conversation, we can only 'leave' them, which implies to me that they stay in the data base. Is this not the case?

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I may have missed something but my observation is that it's not possible to delete a private conversation, we can only 'leave' them, which implies to me that they stay in the data base. Is this not the case?

It deletes the message as well. Bad wording on their part, I agree.

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It deletes the message as well. Bad wording on their part, I agree.

Thanks, I had been meaning to go back over my private conversations and make sure I had saved any phone numbers or e-mail addresses people had sent me. More impetus to do so now I know I'll be saving a small amount of space on the site. (Although the stored site data being in double figure Gb when 1Tb is $5.99 a month, perhaps that not as significant as I thought it might be!)

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SOME of you have rather large private message boxes. There are private conversations going back to 2002 saved!

I just checked my conversations, and was amazed to discover that I have 25 pages of them going back to May 6, 2001o_O Conversations with Michael (Hooboy), introductory conversations with members who became close personal friends outside the site, conversations with someone I had known well in the 1960s and hadn't seen for years, conversation with a stalker, comparing notes with other members about certain escorts, etc., etc. Some are with those who are deceased or have long since disappeared from here. Thank you so much for saving all of them, for my trip down memory lane.

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  • 2 weeks later...
54 minutes ago, Unicorn said:

Were the last 24 hours of postings prior to the reboot lost?

I just looked for a post I made in the last few hours before 5pm Friday EDT (not sure which side of 24 hours it was) and couldn't find it. It had randomly appeared as the latest post in an unrelated forum on the opening page, but wouldn't open from there, and is no longer there. (It was in the thread about an Australian having died in India, which I also couldn't find.) The fact that I couldn't find the post or the thread doesn't mean they weren't there, of course. Either way, I'm not worried about it, I was only looking for it because you had posed this question.

Rather than attribute that to the content being lost, I suspect it's just the vagaries of the order in which content from the before times is being indexed, not a sign that it has been lost.

Edited by mike carey
To replace 'unrelated thread' with 'unrelated forum'.
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