Of course I remember there was a holding page prior to Lucire launching on October 20, 1997 at 7 a.m. EST, or midnight NZDT on October 21, 1997. I just didn’t remember what it exactly looked like, till I discovered it at the Internet Archive: There was no semicolon in JY&A Media, not […]
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Musings for today: back on Facebook, untracked ads, Autocade rankings
It’d be unfair if I didn’t note that I managed to see a ‘Create post’ button today on Lucire’s Facebook page for the first time in weeks. I went crazy manually linking everything that was missed between April 25 and today. Maybe I got it back as it would look even worse for Facebook, which […]
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Autocade reaches 28 million page views
On March 19, 2022, Autocade had accumulated 27,647,011 page views. That was the last recorded total, and the new site went live the following day. That means over 10,000 views didn’t get added to that total, but as it’s the last I have (unless the Wayback Machine has one from the 20th ult.), then […]
Hopefully this week: farewell, Amazon Web Services
Wow, we’re nearly there: the long journey to migrate our sites off AWS and on to a new box. We began hosting there in 2012 but the server—which appears to have had a single major update in 2016—was getting very old. In 2018 we began searching for someone who knew about migrations. A second […]
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What’s popular on Autocade
What’s been quite fascinating with having the stats reset on Autocade is getting a fresh perspective on what its most popular pages are. When a website has been going for 14 years, and the stats have never been refreshed, it doesn’t give you the most up-to-date picture. You know historically what was most popular, but […]
The new Autocade is coming soon
At just past its 14th birthday, Autocade will return on a new server, with a new Mediawiki installation. Because Mediawiki got rid of the stats with v. 1.25, sadly they weren’t imported into the new version that we’re running. We’re going to start the count from 0, though of course right before the changeover […]
Slightly slower growth at Autocade as it reaches 27,000,000 page views
Autocade did get to 27,000,000 page views some time last week, earning its latest million in two-and-a-half months. It was a slower pace of growth than what I had observed through the latter part of 2021, probably because I hadn’t done too many updates to the site during Q4 (unsurprisingly, having had to deal with […]
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Life in the capital
Amazing what sort of press releases come in. I had no idea that Auckland is our capital, and I was surprised to find that Toronto and Antwerp are as well in the same release. Essential Living is a British firm, from the looks of it, and no, we won’t be publishing this in Lucire. […]
Twitter continues playing silly buggers—are they illiterate?
Pixabay It’s hard to believe, but Twitter is far, far worse than Facebook when it comes to straightening things out. They’ve now asked for my ‘government-issued ID’ thrice and I’ve provided it thrice. It meets all their criteria. This is the latest bollocks: Hello, We’re writing to let you know that we’re unable […]
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Farewell, Twitter gadget (is there a point to them?)
One good thing to having Twitter lock Lucire’s account: there’s no point having a Twitter gadget or widget on your home page any more. Was there ever one to begin with? I don’t think I’ve ever gone to a site and found a Twitter widget useful. It did bother me that a Lucire […]
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