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I must say, huge difference going from FailPress 2.x-somthing to FailPress 2.8.3, It’s all spiffy and clean. It’s been a long time comming as I’ve been putting off the upgrade. I wanted to wait until I could trust my backup making skills. Now that I figured out how to make nice clean full backups (thank you Turkish spam bots), I got the gonads to start installing. The first thing after making a backup, WordPress asks you to do, is to start deleting files. To me deleting anything via permanent never-getting-back FTP is never a good thing, all you need to do is miss read one thing. After rereading it like it was gold, I made the commit, announced my work to IRC and watched in horror as the files disappear into the abyss.

With a then file transfer and a click of a button. I was shown a new Failpress of a clean cut. So far I must say I like the fact everything has been put away and is not bulky and in your face all the time, as in previous builds. It seems like It’s going to take longer to write a message now but the content management end of things looks alot better now. So expect the site to get more and more refined.

Anyways I just wanted to let you know what happened. Some people already noticed the font looks a little nicer. You might also notice some SEO features, breadcrumbs for ‘pages’ and other little ‘addons’ to make the website more engaging and useful.

Tomorrow I will be adding fixing up posts, adding tags, sorting and updating the sites look and feel some more. It’s been my goal on top of accessibility to try to get this site improved for searching and google. This website gets most of it hits from direct links. Meaning fans and community supporters clicking a bookmark or a untraceable link with no referral to this site. We get very little support from google or other search engines. We are powered nearly 100% on community steam. Which only leads me to wonder what will happen with the combination of more community advertisement (putting links on other sites) and google finally waking up to this great site. I think it will spell great success (and higher bills ) for this site and the OFP:DR community who will reap the rewards.

As always I welcome you to post comments about what you see and hear, spread links far and use the community sites like Flickr and this site when passing out images and news. Helping to promote community links allows the community as a whole to gain strength and archive greater things.

Enjoy,
- Sir. Polaris