I’m sitting here visiting the latest submissions on Blog Engage and I must admit I’m rather disappointed in what I’m seeing. I see many familiar faces and as normal each member has 2 – 5 votes as their content was only recently submitted.

As I continue down the page I see some more familiar faces with tons more votes than the majority of other members in the community. The first thing that comes to mind is why these members don’t vote and engage with other Blog Engage members but only their selves? To me this is greedy and not what Blog Engage is about. (more…)

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Over the next week I will be making some new modifications to this site that will require you to refresh your browser when visiting Blog Engage.

One of the biggest changes you will have noticed is the ability to track articles your friends have added to Blog Engage. On every story page your friends add you will see a triangle star like this.

You can see it behind the voting button in the top right corner of every submitted story. The deal is without refreshing Blog Engage this might be in the way of actually voting right now.

Some members have been complaining about this new feature blocking their ability o vote on articles. If this is happening to you follows these instructions and repeat until the issue is resolved.

Step 1. Make sure you are on the Blog Engage home page
Step 2. Hold down the CTRL button on your Keyboard
Step 3. While holding down CTRL press F5 to refresh the entire Blog Engage website

This should reload Blog Engage and make it look and feel the way it was intended with the new modification. This new symbol allows you to easily track all your friends submitted articles. If it doesn’t show it means the user is a Blog Engage customer and until they vote it will not show the symbols so don’t bet confused.

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Just wondering what you all think about the front page and what I have recently done with it.

I was bored and started playing around with the pages here on the site. Now like you I’m very picky in what I like and don’t like. I thought I would shoot out some of the pros and cons of using the current front page.

Pros

• See site status in real time

• The chance to see your article on the front page multiple times

• Automatically refreshes content without page reloads

• More active you are the more you’re seen

Cons

• Load time is a little slow, counting 5 seconds at minimum.

• The published stories need to be visited and no longer control the front page

Let me know your thoughts on the new look and if we should or shouldn’t keep it. Anyone who comments I will take your posts and add them to the pros and cons list.

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Alright I did some upgrades today. Some fixes from previous upgrades have been resolved. Below is a list of everything that was updated and or fixed. Improvements are always being made to the software and we thank the developer for that.Blog Engage is nothing  without all the members we got and if anything made this community it’s you! Here are the recent fixes and or updates. Sorry to anyone who experienced wrong referrer issues and or other strange issues.

•Security fixes
•Inline comment CAPTCHA fix
•Added new Spam Trigger module
•Deleting a comment now recalculates the story comment number
•404error.php URL Method 2 fix
•Added Italian language
•Fixed admin language module removing UTF characters
•Fixed some RSS urls that had an extra forward slash at the end
•Fix for using quotes within HTML tags in stories
•Same name category fix
•Fixed JS in multibox_admin
•Removed /cache line from robots.txt to allow robots to crawl cached sitemap
•Login cookie fix for previously untested server configurations
•Fix for escape slashes in stories
•Register invalid characters fix for servers where PCRE was compiled without UTF-8 support

Please report al bugs to us here on this post.

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After a few days of fixing code and testing the website I can confirm (hopefully) the site is back up and running as it should on a normal day’s basis. I have some minor text and description fixes to complete but the functionality of our website is perfect.

The Captcha on comments and story submission is working which will help slow down the comments and story spam. As you know from being a member here at blogengage we aren’t subject to much spam anyways. None the less all improvements should be noted.

Guest Bloggers Wanted

Our guest blogging has been fun to say the least. I had to disapprove many articles as they were of extremely low quality. Unfortunately this comes with the territory. If you however feel you can add value to our social blog and community don’t hesitate to contact me to set up your contributor account. (more…)

I’ve been making some changes here on the website and have received some feedback on issues our members have been experiencing. I ask all our members that are active on a daily basis to report anything that isn’t working properly. Without reporting the issue it may never get fixed so if it’s bugging you and isn’t working please post a comment and let me know.

We are currently running the latest version of our software. I know we have some registration issues along with some submission issues but this should all be fixed as of now. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused our members. I’m not in good books with the developer of this software so every change I make I stand alone in fixing any bugs.

Most of the updates had to do with bug fixes from what I can tell and apparently they have added new Captcha functionality that doesn’t appear to work on the submit a story page. I’m not sure if this is a Pligg bug or if this is created and caused by Captcha themselves. It seems after trial and error that you can escape Captcha assuming you have the right letters. Meaning you can add more of the same letter and it will still approve your submissions. If the Captcha is “people places” you can still pass it by typing “peeooplllle “plllaccceesss”.

I’m still working on this but needless to say this only affects my in box as all submissions are still approved by me first. So in general this means you are still free of spam in our amazing spam free community.

I have also noticed an issue when trying to leave a comment. They are not being sent for approval nor are they actually saving in the database. I’m not sure if this is template related or if it’s pligg related but I am however looking into the issue so please take note.

So to restate if you have any issues on site please report them by posting a comment below.

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If you haven’t noticed I’ve made some slight changes around the community. I like to keep things fresh and clean so I make cosmetic changes. First as you must have noticed we got a new blogengage banner image. Kevin Tan from Internet Marketing Entrepreneur made in exchange for a one year PR4 link back to his website and a PR3 blog roll link on my personal blog seomkt.

About Blog Engage – I even had time to update the about blogengage page which shows much of our functionality in one convenient location. This shows and explains some pretty cool stuff I would definitely be checking it out. (more…)