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welcome to the shockblast's log.
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03/20/2012 02:06:00
March update so far
Waddup fellaaaaaaaZ? Wass crackin? What’s going on? Here we go again with another update! Are you happy?
Yesterday we change for the 1000000000 time server, this time (knock on wood) without problems, thank
god.
The server is like the previous one. There was no downtime thanks to Cloudflare and because we got their nameservers on. Plus we got the 2 servers up and running at the same time so nobody noticed nuttin. :)
Few seconds ago I finally finished the old-new share bar at the end of posts.
this is how it looks like;
This month we hit 1000 Followers on Twitter & we’re very proud of this.
KNOWN ISSUESCloudFlare vs. Facebook vs. ShockBlast:
- Images wont show up if a link from ShockBlast is shared on Facebook.
what we know about this problem? We know that if we don’t use CloudFlare there’s no problem. But we use CloudFlare so there’s a problem. We also know that maybe Facebook will never fix this shit. Waiting & Hoping
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02/06/2012 01:06:00
What happened? the database crash
February 4: Server went down for a couple of minutes, when it get back… the Database was fucked up… In few words the whole database any entry was full of \ and other symbols. So no posts was visible.
Why it took so long to restore a backup?
Because we had to talk with the Hosting and they was kinda slow to figure out what to do + the the backup they had was after the crash and the one we had was corupted…
How you fix this shit?
Downloaded the backup, de-tar.gz it :D after we drop the old database and uploaded the new one.
And what about the old posts?
Well we had to re-post them by hand, because the xml was fucked up too… 2 days of readding old posts.
And now?
We’re ok at the moment just finished with the posts, now we’re going to make backups every single day, maybe a cronjob will help us in case we forget to make one.
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01/28/2012 21:58:00
Evil Share Bottom Bar
Last night we was checking the load time + different other stuff about the speed of ShockBlast and we noticed that there was a file injected from a different domain. So we decided to investigate what was that file, and found that the file was injected by a plugin called “SexyBookmarks” wich we used at the end of the posts to make you share stuff around the web.
What was that?
In few words it was a file that track via GIFs (Web Bacons) the visitors and then send the data to AD & Tracking networks, later this data will be used to spam your email or send you ads in other places. [Read the e-mail we sent to Wordpress]
We deactivated and deleted the plugin after we noticed this issue. At the moment we have that fucking ugly buttons that don’t match a shit, but I’m working on a cleaner thing, It will be online in few days? weeks? dunno, feel lazy in these days.
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01/24/2012 10:24:40
Problems over Problems
Yesterday: we had some problems with the DataBase, unfortunately isnt the first time that this kind of problem affects the website. The hosting was informed and they tell us that they will take a look, (no more updates from the the hosting) the site is ok at the moment, but I know that they aint fixed a shit and I’m waiting this error to show again in the next days!
Today: An European network provider/network backbone seems to have failed at around 4 AM (Pacific Time). In addition, CloudFlare was performing maintenance overnight, and some sites using CloudFlare may be unavailable, OF COURSE ShockBlast is one of these websites, plus the whole CloudFlare DNS network is under a DDoS attack and everything is slow as SHIT.
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01/02/2012 00:27:00
ShockBlast Nyx now Live + server
LOL We’re so happy to announce you that the new version of ShockBlast called NYX is now Live! We’re in a BETA week, gonna fix a lot of problems already know that.
What’s up with new version?
- Well basically we get rid of the static homepage and designed from scratch a new one with a very nice jQuery animation where the thumbnails fall down from top + it’s full screen :)
- For the other pages we didn’t change a lot, we just added and removed some stuff.
Change the header (logo + menu) removed the comments… 1 year and 5 months only 500 comments and 15,000 spam…… :D yeah!!!! 15k! So if you wanna comment go to facebook or @shockblastnet on twitter! Added a new cool search. Added a navigation bar at the BOTTOM yeah for other stuff visit the site :D Used some new html5 and CSS3 code and its cool to work with them…
the painful part of this project was the css sprites coded and made by hand because none of the services made what we needed…
between 25 and 30 of december we change server once again… so now we’re on new server, I think it’s the same shit like the others… hope I’m wrong and hope this was the last time we change servers…
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08/11/2011 14:49:00
Updated 1 — New Version
Today We officialy started thinking and brainstorming what can be changed
and added to ShockBlast 3 (v SB:3).
Things to be changed:
- Better code, reducing the unneeded plugins.
- Better Search.
- Better Archives navigation.
- Better Menu (clear with more links)
- Home Page & Other pages UI, will be changed.
News:
— It’s very probable that would be an UserNews section, where YOU can add your stuff.
— No more comments section.
— Keyboard Shortcuts
— AND many more…
Note: We're just thinking and writing on a paper, no code was written so far.
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07/20/2011 10:47:00
NEWS | JULY
> ShockBlast x Tumblr
Yesterday we launched our official Tumblr Blog. You can now follow us at
tumblr.shockblast.net.
> ShockBlast connect
Yesterday we launched a new layout for the page Connect. Here you can find all our social life and connect with us.
> ShockBlast x Tumblr | AD
Today made a very fancy ad on ShockBlast you can see it on every page in the corner near the logo.
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06/04/2011 13:55:00
Today we want to present you our new service.
We noticed that most of you see only new posts and will never see posts which was published months ago, although the quality of these material not worse than quality of current posts. So we decided to create this new place where you can find always new and inspirational stuff.
It took us 22 hours to code this page. Learned a lot of stuff coding it, had some problems to understand some things and had problems with the random thing in php but at the end it works fine. Thanks to jQuery and some of his plugins. Last problem solved was the cache, in some browsers even after reloaded the images stayed the same.
Unbelivable but true solved with 2 simple HTML meta tags:
<meta http-equiv=”CACHE-CONTROL” content=”NO-CACHE” />
<meta http-equiv=”PRAGMA” content=”NO-CACHE” />
yeah STREAM works on iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch too.
Hope you enjoy using it as We enjoyed creating it.
Flood you with inspiration.
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05/28/2011 18:51:00
What’s new?
Major updates from May:
WE HIT 2K on FACEBOOK on 28/MAY/2011
+ Added a cache system, to speed up the site and reduce server’s work.
+ Added Disqus instead of the old Comments System.
+ Added a tags section before comments.
stay tunned
facebook : twitter : ShockBlast
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04/21/2011 02:53:02
update: server changed. -15 to first bday.
As maybe you noticed we changed server once again… The old one that was supposed to be MEGA-HYPER-SUPER fast/strong with an 10000% uptime, crashed more time than a windows 95, so we had to change it.
This change was painful for us, because we had to move it by ourself, their was a lot of problems of all kinds. But here we are up and running again.
There’s few more things we have to fix yet, like the mail that doesn’t work, but we’re working on it. So if you send emails to us please send them to our Gmail mail.
We just renewed the domain for another year, so shockblast (WE HOPE) will be up for the next year.
-15 days to ShockBlast’s first birthday, we’re working for something special…
stay tunned
facebook : twitter : ShockBlast
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12/27/2010 08:33:00
ShockBlast is going down tonight!
ShockBlast must be moved on a new server due to the high traffic we’re reaching in the last month. The new server will be much faster and secure. We are moving to prevent future attacks like the last month’s and unwanted downtimes. Too much traffic, had the situation hot :D
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Sorry! We’ll be back up COOLER THAN EVER!
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stay up-to-date:
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11/27/2010 10:43:00
SB down
We had some technical problems with the server, so we had to stop it. Now we’re up and running and still monitoring the site…. So if it’s slow don’t blame it on us!
WE ARE REALLY SORRY, FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE!
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09/27/2010 16:25:00
We have that exclusive shit!
I’m very proud to say that, for all this week we will have a promo album on ShockBlast.net ready to be downloaded for free. The album feats many MC’s DJs and Producers from Milano, but basicaly it’s made by STONO, NETO and ILNOS.
I’m tellin’ you, for me and the ShockBlast crew this is a very big shot!
Hope You’ll enjoy this album…
YOURVOICE, UPDATES:
it’s online but I’m fixing some things, so tomorrow it will be up and running on YOU.SHOCKBLAST.net … check it and star submiting your works and stuff!!
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09/14/2010 08:18:06
you.shockblast.net \ soon to be online
It’s official. 4 weeks ago We start developing you.shockblast.net
What’s that?
you.shockblast.net aka YourVoice is a place where people can post images share links and info with other people. Currently YourVoice is not open to public we still testing it but today we can say that we have done half of the work! And in two week or so it will be up and running.
We want let our users to interact each other and make more flexible and social ShockBlast.net… unfortunatly it’s impossible to do it because of many things first of all is SPAM and LOW QUALITY posts that we don’t want to appear on our site.
In you.shockblast.net every body can post the works that want and show them to other creative people…
for now that’s all I can say about this project… Stay tuned for more informations
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09/09/2010 13:11:46
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