Dear friends,
As many of you have noticed, the blog had an outage yesterday. Though I am not sure what happened, one of our IT specialists found the location of the problem and fixed it. I am not sure whether this fix is permanent or temporary (I just woke up to a short email from him, we did not have the time to discuss this yet), but at least from Florida the blog loads fine as of now (0945 local time).
I apologize for that problem and I ask for your patience if over the next couple of days we have more hiccups or delays. As always, should something serious happen, I would use this old blog (right here) to communicate with you.
Kind regards,
The Saker
Category Archives: blog housekeeping issues
As any other form of warfare, information warfare also needs funding. Please help.
Dear friends,
In the recent weeks the donations have fallen to almost *zero* even though the combined readership between the two blogs is comfortably over 50'000 a day. Please help me to continue putting as many hours of work each day into the old and new blog and bring you the same quantity and quality of information and analyses. As any other form of warfare, information warfare also needs funding. Please help.
Thank you,
The Saker
In the recent weeks the donations have fallen to almost *zero* even though the combined readership between the two blogs is comfortably over 50'000 a day. Please help me to continue putting as many hours of work each day into the old and new blog and bring you the same quantity and quality of information and analyses. As any other form of warfare, information warfare also needs funding. Please help.
Thank you,
The Saker
As any other form of warfare, information warfare also needs funding. Please help.
Dear friends,
In the recent weeks the donations have fallen to almost *zero* even though the combined readership between the two blogs is comfortably over 50'000 a day. Please help me to continue putting as many hours of work each day into the old and new blog and bring you the same quantity and quality of information and analyses. As any other form of warfare, information warfare also needs funding. Please help.
Thank you,
The Saker
In the recent weeks the donations have fallen to almost *zero* even though the combined readership between the two blogs is comfortably over 50'000 a day. Please help me to continue putting as many hours of work each day into the old and new blog and bring you the same quantity and quality of information and analyses. As any other form of warfare, information warfare also needs funding. Please help.
Thank you,
The Saker
Important clarifications about the new blog
Dear friends,
New blog presentation format:
A lot of you have emailed me to tell me that they don't like the "thematic" presentation used for the new blog and that you prefer a regular "chronological" one. That is very simple to address:
If you prefer the "thematic" one use this link: http://thesaker.is/
If you prefer the "chronological" one use this link: http://thesaker.is/blog/
I think that with time you will see that having a choice of both is actually very helpful. The thematic mode makes it far easier to research a topic while the second one makes it far easier to get the latest news. I think that this flexibility is a huge improvement over the rigid "chronological only" format.
Delay between posts on the old and new blog:
Some have noticed that post appear hear before they appear on the new blog. Correct. I am learning the various options offered by WordPress and my webmaster helps me in the process. So especially in the beginning, there will be a time lag between here (blogger is very simple to use, but also have very little functionality) and there (WordPress is extremely powerful but take a little bit of time to learn).
Moderation on the new blog:
Finally, moderation should improve massively. I remind you that my moderation policy is spelled out here: http://thesaker.is/moderation-policy/
And just to clarify - my moderators (there are 10 of them) have a sole function to allow comments which are clearly in compliance with that policy. However, they do not delete the others, but leave them to me to make the final decision. In other words, don't blame them from not allowing a comment, if that happens - blame me.
The good news is that your comments should get posted much faster. Also, there will be no software-controlled moderation and no obligation to sign up.
Comments:
Please do not post comments on this blog but only on the new one. And please DO let us know what you like and dislike about the new blog by posting our opinions under this article's comments section:
http://thesaker.is/the-new-saker-blog-v3-is-now-ready/
That's it for now.
I hope to have a Ukraine SITREP ready in a few hours.
Cheers and hugs,
The Saker
New blog presentation format:
A lot of you have emailed me to tell me that they don't like the "thematic" presentation used for the new blog and that you prefer a regular "chronological" one. That is very simple to address:
If you prefer the "thematic" one use this link: http://thesaker.is/
If you prefer the "chronological" one use this link: http://thesaker.is/blog/
I think that with time you will see that having a choice of both is actually very helpful. The thematic mode makes it far easier to research a topic while the second one makes it far easier to get the latest news. I think that this flexibility is a huge improvement over the rigid "chronological only" format.
Delay between posts on the old and new blog:
Some have noticed that post appear hear before they appear on the new blog. Correct. I am learning the various options offered by WordPress and my webmaster helps me in the process. So especially in the beginning, there will be a time lag between here (blogger is very simple to use, but also have very little functionality) and there (WordPress is extremely powerful but take a little bit of time to learn).
Moderation on the new blog:
Finally, moderation should improve massively. I remind you that my moderation policy is spelled out here: http://thesaker.is/moderation-policy/
And just to clarify - my moderators (there are 10 of them) have a sole function to allow comments which are clearly in compliance with that policy. However, they do not delete the others, but leave them to me to make the final decision. In other words, don't blame them from not allowing a comment, if that happens - blame me.
The good news is that your comments should get posted much faster. Also, there will be no software-controlled moderation and no obligation to sign up.
Comments:
Please do not post comments on this blog but only on the new one. And please DO let us know what you like and dislike about the new blog by posting our opinions under this article's comments section:
http://thesaker.is/the-new-saker-blog-v3-is-now-ready/
That's it for now.
I hope to have a Ukraine SITREP ready in a few hours.
Cheers and hugs,
The Saker
Important clarifications about the new blog
Dear friends,
New blog presentation format:
A lot of you have emailed me to tell me that they don't like the "thematic" presentation used for the new blog and that you prefer a regular "chronological" one. That is very simple to address:
If you prefer the "thematic" one use this link: http://thesaker.is/
If you prefer the "chronological" one use this link: http://thesaker.is/blog/
I think that with time you will see that having a choice of both is actually very helpful. The thematic mode makes it far easier to research a topic while the second one makes it far easier to get the latest news. I think that this flexibility is a huge improvement over the rigid "chronological only" format.
Delay between posts on the old and new blog:
Some have noticed that post appear hear before they appear on the new blog. Correct. I am learning the various options offered by WordPress and my webmaster helps me in the process. So especially in the beginning, there will be a time lag between here (blogger is very simple to use, but also have very little functionality) and there (WordPress is extremely powerful but take a little bit of time to learn).
Moderation on the new blog:
Finally, moderation should improve massively. I remind you that my moderation policy is spelled out here: http://thesaker.is/moderation-policy/
And just to clarify - my moderators (there are 10 of them) have a sole function to allow comments which are clearly in compliance with that policy. However, they do not delete the others, but leave them to me to make the final decision. In other words, don't blame them from not allowing a comment, if that happens - blame me.
The good news is that your comments should get posted much faster. Also, there will be no software-controlled moderation and no obligation to sign up.
Comments:
Please do not post comments on this blog but only on the new one. And please DO let us know what you like and dislike about the new blog by posting our opinions under this article's comments section:
http://thesaker.is/the-new-saker-blog-v3-is-now-ready/
That's it for now.
I hope to have a Ukraine SITREP ready in a few hours.
Cheers and hugs,
The Saker
New blog presentation format:
A lot of you have emailed me to tell me that they don't like the "thematic" presentation used for the new blog and that you prefer a regular "chronological" one. That is very simple to address:
If you prefer the "thematic" one use this link: http://thesaker.is/
If you prefer the "chronological" one use this link: http://thesaker.is/blog/
I think that with time you will see that having a choice of both is actually very helpful. The thematic mode makes it far easier to research a topic while the second one makes it far easier to get the latest news. I think that this flexibility is a huge improvement over the rigid "chronological only" format.
Delay between posts on the old and new blog:
Some have noticed that post appear hear before they appear on the new blog. Correct. I am learning the various options offered by WordPress and my webmaster helps me in the process. So especially in the beginning, there will be a time lag between here (blogger is very simple to use, but also have very little functionality) and there (WordPress is extremely powerful but take a little bit of time to learn).
Moderation on the new blog:
Finally, moderation should improve massively. I remind you that my moderation policy is spelled out here: http://thesaker.is/moderation-policy/
And just to clarify - my moderators (there are 10 of them) have a sole function to allow comments which are clearly in compliance with that policy. However, they do not delete the others, but leave them to me to make the final decision. In other words, don't blame them from not allowing a comment, if that happens - blame me.
The good news is that your comments should get posted much faster. Also, there will be no software-controlled moderation and no obligation to sign up.
Comments:
Please do not post comments on this blog but only on the new one. And please DO let us know what you like and dislike about the new blog by posting our opinions under this article's comments section:
http://thesaker.is/the-new-saker-blog-v3-is-now-ready/
That's it for now.
I hope to have a Ukraine SITREP ready in a few hours.
Cheers and hugs,
The Saker