Kyle Cabano wrote:
Where are all the photographers? Where are all the online editors keeping the site updated? With going digital lots of extra work should be put into the website to keep everyone stoked.. Interviews, posts. Anything!
Hey my guy ... for the most part the Sixty40 website has been a one man show and is a great hobby for me but that means it is all in my spare time and as it doesn't bring in cash I can't employ anyone. The magazine is run separately but under the Sixty40 name - a little confusing but we do compliment each other. Life also moves on and my day job is many days not just a day job and so I have had less time to put in.
It was my first ever web project - I had been working as a database administrator and wanted to move into web development and a bodyboarding website would be the most exciting project to learn on. I have always tried to put back into the sport and Sixty40 is something that I will always try to keep going. You do take a few knocks and disappointment along the way - at which point you probably see things get a bit quieter from me - but I will keep soldiering on.
Anyway ...
Recently, my time has been going into a bit of development and I have actually been thankful for things being a bit quiet as when it is not, there is always queries and issues which do not allow me to work on development - which is what I'd prefer to be doing. So, I am just reviewing the site and tidying up a few of the sections --- some of them were pretty horrible, unfinished, full of bugs and a quite embarrassing. I am trying to strip out what has become unused and work on the sections which are used and try allow for more content to be added by contributers and users.
I have also disabled new registrations as we have really been targeted by spammers and at some point my plan is to remove this forum and migrate the users to a new login system.
I can't give a time frame but over time you should see a few changes around the site.
As always, thanks to everyone for their support and I will do my best to sort the site out.
Cheers,
Kelly