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We need your help Please

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:02 pm
by chadtm80
Hello Everyone.. Hows everything going? Good I hope.. The Admin team really needs your help and cooperation for the next month or so... We are becoming Victims of our own monster, Storm2k :D All of our hopes and dreams for this site have not only come true, but we have gone way above anything any of us even imagined.. We have not yet made it to our one year and we are almost up to 1,000 members... The word is out.. Storm2k is one of the MOST preferred Weather sites on the net at the present time.. :D :D :D Im not tooting our own horn here Ladies and Gentleman, I am stating a fact.. :wink: And what a fact it is :D :D :D Out of all the years mfdolphin, Ticka, and I have been part of the weather boards scene have we ever seen anything like this.. We are now averaging 299,000 hits per day... :shocked!: and there are people on the site 24/7.. We have members from all over the country as well as all over the world... Things couldn't be going any better for us :D


Now, with all that said.. We need your help and cooperation for at least the remainder of the Hurricane Season (our busiest time of the year, hands down) We have been flirting ever so closely to exceeding our bandwith limit for the last couple of months now, and with the latest member boom we have had, we are just about to go over our limit this month.. If we were to continue on the same average we have been doing so far this month it would put us over on about the 16th.. Check your calendars folks, thats just 6 days away.... and we have to make it till the 30th before our account will recycle. The Admin team has been meeting on this issue for a few days now, and trying to come up with a solution, that works out for the site, and at the same time, keeps all of you happy here at storm2k :D We do have a template that is called "subrebel" that is very bandwidth friendly.. It does not show Avatars or signature lines, which GREATLY reduces the bandwith usage. Our fist thought was to just force everyone to use this template from behind the scenes, but we just realy do not want to do that.. We want everyone to be happy, and fell some what in control here.. So what we decided to do, is Kindly ask for people to take a break from using there Avatars and Graphic signatures for a while... You can just go into your profile and remove them... This would help us out SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH, and would be GREATLY appreciated.. We would also like to encourage anyone that dosent mind using the "Low" graphic template to please switch over to the "subrebel" template... Just go to your profile, and change the "board style" to subrebel, and then scroll to the bottom of the page and click submit.. Another thing that is realy eating away at our bandwith is all the pictures that our posted in the posts themselves with the image tags.... (I am the number 1 person when it comes to doing that one :lol: ) Again it would be greatly appreciated if you would just post the link for us to click on to go see the picture rather then making the image viewable here within your posts..


The Admin team dosent ask much, and we do our best to make sure everyone has a fun, and educational time here.. And that is the very reason we our making these requests today... Please help us out, and make these changes ASAP, so we can continue to be the BEST WEATHER SITE ON THE NET!!!!! If any further actions are needed in this matter we will let you know right away...


Thanks For your cooperation in this matter.
-Admin Team-
Chadtm80, mfdolphin, Ticka

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:16 pm
by streetsoldier
OK, I'm now using "subRebel"...and although it is "butt-ugly", I'm willing to do my part to reduce the strain...how's 'bout the rest of yez???

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:23 pm
by Stephanie
I'm going back to "the rebel" right after I post this! :wink:

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:24 pm
by mf_dolphin
Thanks Bill! I'm using it as well. I also removed my Avatar and signature images so they don't show on the other templates. This will just be a temp thing :-) I agree on the butt ugly! LOL

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:24 pm
by StormCrazyIowan
UGH! Subrebel is very, uh, WHITE (Im used to blue lagoon!), but I am willing to sacrifice the color for y'all! What about everyone else?! Do your part guys, it's not so bad and it will be doing EVERYONE here on the board a favor! :D

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:26 pm
by StormCrazyIowan
Oh, and BTW: Chad, I am not sure where I got my froggy avatar, but I deleted it too, and if memory serves me right, you are the one who found it for me, so when it is safe to put it back on, will ya help me find it if I can't? I would really appreciate it!

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:33 pm
by breeze
I'll put my reading glasses on - no prob!
No graphics and subrebel - so
be it! :D

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:36 pm
by chadtm80
Yes Stormcrazy, I will find it for you again.. No problem :-) Also as far as the "butt ugly" comment, LOL If marshall and I have time this weekend we will try to pretty it up for you all :-)

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:37 pm
by StormCrazyIowan
LMAO, it is not so much butt- ugly as it is BLINDING!!!! :lol:

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:38 pm
by weatherlover427
I made the switch just now! Glad to do my part! :D

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:42 pm
by Miss Mary
Chad - well since I could never figure out how to use an avatar, it's no problem!!! If I'm not using one, then I'm okay right? I'll help in any way, you know that. I am really amazed at Storm2K's explosion too......what a great concept you all had and I'm sure it's exceeded your wildest imaginations!!! Premature congrats if we reach 1,000 members.

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:46 pm
by mf_dolphin
Thanks to everyone for their help! My credit card really appreciates it LOL It's just another confirmation of the great group we have here!!!!!!!

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 9:00 pm
by coriolis
I'm in line.

count me in....

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 6:42 am
by TLC
Only glad to help, besides its getting pretty close to deer season around here * giggles * Let us know if there's anything else we can do to help...and congrats for making storm2k, bigger than life :D

Tracy

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 7:28 am
by hunter84
I changed and I kinda like this template, I don't mind not seeing any avatars. The only thing I see missing is the quick reply option>

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 7:36 am
by azsnowman
"EEEEEEYYYYYYEEEEE!" I'm a "REBEL" now "LOL!" Always glad to help!

Dennis

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 7:38 am
by j
Template change is no problem at all....and goofy avatar is now gone.

I kind of like it this way....for one thing..it draws far less attention to my screen, and as others who log on at work will attest, you don't want to draw attention.

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:44 am
by blizzard
The change is good, its really the content I am here for anyway, not the look. I agree with Hunter, is there anyway to get the quick reply on this skin, or is that a bandwith issue also?

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:51 am
by mf_dolphin
We will try and get the "Quick Reply" feature installed tonight :-) It's just one of those things that was on the list to do but we haven't gotten to it yet :-)

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 12:20 pm
by Pburgh
Plain Jane here.