March Changes on SewingMamas.com

1. I’m going to install the updates to the system software tonight. This shouldn’t take any time so cross your fingers. You can check out the blog if it all crashed down around us, or join the Facebook group for more information:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54944719225

2. Prices for advertising are going up. We’re growing every day. I understand times are tight all around but things are tight for me here too. Today is the last day for the current price structure. They will be going up about 20%. So if you want to buy advertising for the next year check out this link:

http://www.sewingmamas.com/sads/index.php

You can set up an advertising profile for free, but that won’t lock in prices.

And we’re back!

Just in time!  I’ll do the drawing for the contest tonight, so you’ll know your prizes

We currently have a dedicated server, which apparently got corrupted.  Nathan the Web Dude has been busy and was just able to reset everything.

Let’s cross our fingers and tosies!

Nutmeg

New Issues

Hello again,

Sorry we’re down so fast. I was just giving all advertisers a free month when the database crashed.  This is a server issue so I have no control over it.

I am sorry, I have to wait for our web server people to read my message. There really isn’t anything anyone can do, including using the IP links because that’s where the problem is.

Thank you for your patience,
Nutmeg

Upgrading

If you can’t get on to Sewing Mamas right now, it’s because I’m running an upgrade.  It will be back up soon!  Go sew something you can post in the Runway ASAP!

A couple of items for the weekend…

 Happy weekend!  I hope your Valentine’s Day was nice.  My husband totally suprised me with three dozen red roses!  One dozen for each daughter.  So sweet!

Wanted to keep you up to date on changes at Sewing Mamas.  I’ve selected the new “Team Sewing Mama” which is a fancy word for mods.  I have one team working on migrating the old album to the new, Coppermine album.  I’m hoping to preserve all your lovely photos and have something that works better for all of us!

As we’ve discussed for many months, onFebruary 15th, only sponsors can post threads in the Boutique Forum.  We’ll have an ISO thread for sponsors and members who are looking for something.  We’ll have a “Yard Sale” once a month where anyone can post anything.

Please vote!  I’m noticing a lot of off topic posts here. I’d like to make it easier to find the sewing posts, and I’d love your input and help. There are a few options I can review with you. If you have another one, please lmk!

The mission here at Sewing Mamas is:

Quote:

Sewingmamas.com is a forum of (mostly) women who sew at all levels and are looking for a place to chat about sewing, life, and kids. We have a decidedly natural/attached parenting viewpoint and learn from each other, inspire one another and have fun!

So to that end, I’d like to make a change but don’t see quite how to do it. Here are some options and I’m open to any of them:

1. An extra thread field, where once you post your thread you can choose from a list what the thread is about (general sewing, embroidery, crafting, NSR-not sewing related). I had this going for awhile but I agree that it made things really messy. This is not searchable however, so you’d still have to read the little notes to see if it’s sewing or not. You can’t filter out just the sewing stuff.

2. Different post icons. Instead of the spam, help, ot, and different smilies we have I can create small icons that say ’sewing’ ‘embroidery’, etc.

3. Have a new forum inside Material Girls, where you can post parenting and OT stuff. I wouldn’t be really uptight about it, I know we’re pretty organic here and things flow to and from sewing and parenting. We’ve gotten so big, I like the idea of a separate forum myself but I know it was a concern to some.

4. another idea?

Sewing Mamas is on it’s own dedicated server

We moved to a dedicated server last night. Looks like we’re still here, so that’s good LOL

You may need to log in again, as the server information has changed. I know I’ve had to log in a few times where I didn’t have to before. I think the tables need to be rebuilt, that store all the information. I’m not much good at that stuff so I’m just playing it by ear.

The blog was down this morning when I got up, and has been intermittent . I guess wordpress has had some glitch, I’m not sure what’s up. It’s not on the sewingmama server, it has my materialmama blog and that’s down too so it’s not a SM thing.

We’ll be upgrading the forum software later this weekend or week, so stay tuned.

I hope the site is loading faster for you now, even during peak times we should be fine.

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