Andy Wehrle
EF5
Great to hear, @Tony Laubach ! Yours was one of my go-to sites back in the '00s along with the others I mentioned.
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After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.
I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.
For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.
From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.
Sincerely, Jeff D.
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Dan Robinson
EF5
@Tony Laubach, great to hear and hoping this inspires more to do the same!
It is definitely a labor of love type of thing. I'm not good at writing, but I enjoy it anyway. I make at least a one or two sentence summary of even the most mundane bust. I think it helps paint the picture of how chasing really is, including all of the failures and not just the highlights. I'm at 1,377 chases logged on my site to date.
It is definitely a labor of love type of thing. I'm not good at writing, but I enjoy it anyway. I make at least a one or two sentence summary of even the most mundane bust. I think it helps paint the picture of how chasing really is, including all of the failures and not just the highlights. I'm at 1,377 chases logged on my site to date.
JamesCaruso
Staff member
Reddit is moving toward paywalling some of its forums. Not sure if Reddit is used much by chasers, but this type of thing (charging users to access content that is all user generated!) should bode well for a return to specialized niche forums like ST.
Ben Holcomb
EF5
Learning HTML is a thing of the past. I would have considered myself beyond expert level at one point but I rarely have to code anything by hand now.
The secret to having an extremely fast site is to use Amazon AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Amazon Cloudfront to host the site. To do so, I use a plugin called Simply Static to export my site to static HTML files. It takes about 15 minutes since my site is full of so much content, but then I just sync the changes to S3 and clear cloudfront cache. There are also other providers such as Cloudflare and Github pages that function similarly. I host the actual wordpress locally here at my house, then and don't have to have the scripts online, which also makes my site pretty impossible to 'hack' the original.
The secret to having an extremely fast site is to use Amazon AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Amazon Cloudfront to host the site. To do so, I use a plugin called Simply Static to export my site to static HTML files. It takes about 15 minutes since my site is full of so much content, but then I just sync the changes to S3 and clear cloudfront cache. There are also other providers such as Cloudflare and Github pages that function similarly. I host the actual wordpress locally here at my house, then and don't have to have the scripts online, which also makes my site pretty impossible to 'hack' the original.
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