Okay, you guys must be wondering what’s going on right now.

The forums have been removed. The bulletin board system is a little too dependant on users thinking of their own topics and on a strong community that I simply don’t have right now. So, relatively soon I will be implementing a comment system using the Facebook Connect feature. But it’s a little more complicated than that…

The issue arises as to how to store the comments. So far the whole site has been using a flat-file system, where everything that is displayed on the pages is stored as an actual file on the server that a script reads and prints. This is very useful for a page like mine that displays mostly static content because it allows caching to be used very effectively by comparing file modified times, which also reduces overhead. Plus, I don’t have to worry about a database server crapping out causing the whole page to stop functioning immediately.

But, now that I wish to add the ability for users (such as you) to comment on news postings I need a way to store various information about your comment, such as, your name, your cute little facebook picture, the date you posted, what news article the comment was for and what you actually said. So, it’s quite a bit of work. Plus, I don’t have a scratch copy of this website to mess with so my changes are live almost immediately so if I break something the site is down for a few minutes.

However, despite all of these possible problems I’m pretty certain I can figure it out. After all, I did manage to create the news system I’m posting with right now in the first place. I only ask that you all remain patient while I am going through with this.

Also, Google Adverts have been added to the page. I’ve tried to keep the ads placed in areas that are relatively out of the way but still eye-catching. It really doesn’t bring in any revenue, it was mostly just to see how I would lay it out in the future, but for now they stay. Don’t worry about it folks, they’re just textual ads.

Also, as a side note, the “Releases” section doesn’t exist anymore because the releases are now available as a part of the main “music” page