Complete redesign is underway

Sometime later on this year our website will be completely different! You won't even recognize it. We have a new logo (or "actual" logo), new format, different color scheme, different navigation, new features -- well let's just say it'll be so different you'll swear a new company took it over.

News released to the wild!

qrsevlo, Inc. released a press release today about the new "make an offer" pricing for all goods. Of course this policy already existed for Everywhere's Local, as well as Sex, Love & Friendships, but it has been extended to Quantum Rift Software as well.

All three companies are actually the same company.

The press release is available at: http://qrsevlo.com/pressreleases/2007-02-01.phtml

Brief problem last night.

Apparently we had a brief downtime last night due to the mysql database crashing, and the tech support people removing the username we connected to thinking it was causing the problem -- ironically had they of checked the database they would've realized that the problem was due to a corrupt table that our site uses for every page. Trying to write a few thousand records to a damaged table = mysql crashing. But they thought it was the id, and removed it temporally.

Hopefully this occurrence won't be happening again. Unfortunately, we were led to believe that mysql was capable of handling inserts into a mysql database with no real size limitations -- and this might not be the case.

Minor changes

We've made some minor changes to the website just now: preferences tab in the navigation.

Now you're able to hide the USGS, Snopes, Missing and Exploited Children tabs (which can cut up to 10 seconds off the page load on a slow day!), as well as hide the weather map at the bottom. Of course the weather map can also be disabled by adding ?weather=no in the address bar of the main page.

We also made a few minor changes to the main page removing some redundant text.

February 2007 -- Free online dating on a personals website!

DATE: February 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Robinson, IL -- Everywhere's Local will be unleashing our new personals system in February 2007 located at: http://friendslovesex.com. It's one of the first of it's kind. A fully-functional free dating site, where anyone can add a personal (if they're over 18) for either pen-pals, romantic/marriage, or even just a casual date (or sex). It is just an extension of Everywhere's Local classifieds, but the "Sex, Love, & Friendships - Everywhere's Local Personals" site is separate to keep our main site completely child friendly.

Our personals website will not allow any adult content that would be banned from any 5-9pm network programming in the USA. No nudity, no closeups, no vulgar language; basically there'd be nothing damaging for a young adult to see if they happen to stumble across the site - although they are not allowed to view or even create a free personal ad.

All members will be able to send and receive e-mails for free, as well as view profiles and pictures! Like other dating websites, we will limit some features as the site grows, and we will have two memebership plans. Unlike other dating sites, our fees are "make an offer" just as with Everywhere's Local's normal website. So, for as much (not to exceed $100/year), or as little as you want to pay per year, and you'll have a membership with the site!

To protect minors, "Sex, Love & Friendships - Everywhere's Local's Personals" is rated with standard online rating agencies as having "nudity, obscene language, etc, etc" however as stated before, these items are prohibited. We are listed as such so that filtering software will block our website (http://friendslovesex.com) from view.

Any town, paper, or organization wishing to use our dating & personals website are free to do so.

As with Everywhere's Local, "Sex, Love & Friendships - Everywhere's Local's Personals" is maintained in a way by the community! This means that feature requests will actually be listened to, and if feasible, added.

For any questions, please contact:
Joshua Rodgers
Everywhere's Local
jlrodgers @ everywhereslocal.com

Confusing posting?

Well apparetnly we've had a few people not read on the site that certain areas cost money, and posted (attempted) without an account. Well, to make sure that there's no chance of people "misunderstanding" (we believe a few may have misunderstood, others were trying to screw the system), the first page of our "post message" screen has in a box, with yellow, what type of account you need for what post or if you can just use an e-mail address/password combo.

We hope that this will prevent any misunderstandings, and help deter anyone trying to screw the system! Really, a default price of $25 for a job posting, that's not much now is it? Especially when it's negotiable! You can't even get a posting that cheap in a paper. (Besides, we use a percentage of the money to advertise in the area, and a percentage of the profits get donated to that area!).

Alerts now "police only", "Death Notices" are "funeral home" only

To help protect against anyone trying to abuse the system, pickup kids to molest, or just otherwise try to do illegal things we've made some changes to our site:

Alerts are now police-agency only, where we manually check the numbers/addresses provided by the agencies to make sure it's actually a police station. A similar thing is done for funeral homes for any death notices. Both are due to abuse, missing children's pretty obvious; but for death notices - we don't want someone putting up their neighbor as of dieing when they're alive. While it's not right, it can also lead to legal problems for us, the poster, and the person listed as dead!

So those changes have been made.

A minor change to the "housing" will also be done to help guarentee that it complies with all "fair housing" acts.

Of course, due to the massive amounts of changes this caused on the backend -- some things might be "broke" that we don't realize! Please tell us if this is the case.

That's all for updates as of now.