Replying to Messages
Posted Jul 04, 2025 8:50PM UTC
In the process of our redesign, I broke the "Reply" button on messages. Sorry, it should be working now! Go write that hot guy back. 😉
🦸♂️ Fresh Coat
Posted Jul 02, 2025 6:41PM UTC
If you haven't been to the website in the last couple of weeks, we hope you'll enjoy the view when you return. We're making a fresh, thorough cleanup and redesign. Some bits are still migrating (sea...
Banned Users
Posted Jun 27, 2025 5:07PM UTC
We had an influx of fake accounts this week, all of them 18 years old and with names that were jumbles of characters like "CCtsfrowjrR". I put rules in place to stop this, including checks to see whether the new member's name seems reasonable. Those checks caught some of our long-time members. 🙂 I made the rules less strict, and hopefully restored all the mistakenly banned accounts. If you found yourself banned today, please look again, and let us know if you're not properly restored. Sorry for the trouble!
Back in the Saddle (after being back in the saddle)
Posted Jun 15, 2025 1:21AM UTC
I haven't posted any news about the site since the end of March, so I thought I should catch you up:
April saw the usual fixes and updates and improvements, but I had to take some time to prepare for May. As I reported to our patrons, I spent that month traveling with a very special friend with very lovely benefits. ☺️ I monitored the site along the way, but as I said when I got back:
We've reached a point at which all went well without my jumping on to fix something every day! Our site administrators took care of everything, and never had to call me in. All the pre-existing problems are still there, but it was nice to take some time without worrying about what might be wrong now.
So I'm home again, and while I miss my travel buddy like crazy, I'm happy and renewed. I dove back into work on those "pre-existing problems". You'll (fail to) notice some of them in the absence of old...
🦸♂️ The Lusty Month of May
Posted May 31, 2025 9:07PM UTC
So I've been gone for a month. I took a cruise from Miami to Barcelona, then visited Bellagio, Milan, and Florence. For the first two weeks, I was on a ship with surprisingly good Wi-Fi, and put som...
Image Uploads
Posted Mar 24, 2025 9:16PM UTC
I fixed most of the problems last week; lots of new photos have gone up. I'm still working on the last stubborn ones. I'm talking directly to those of you affected, and will keep posting updates. Thanks as ever for your patience.
🚧
Posted Mar 17, 2025 8:20PM UTC
I'm still working on the bugs that hit while I was sick. Our login page should be working well again, and I hope to finish fixing image uploads today. I've turned them off in the meantime. You can follow my progress and see other updates at https://oldergay.men/issues.
Sick
Posted Mar 11, 2025 2:03AM UTC
Hi. Just a quick note to say that I'm aware that a bunch of bugs have crept in lately. But I've been even more aware that I contracted a virus which knocked me on my ass. I spent most of last week in bed, and one afternoon in the bathroom. 🫤 I started to bounce back yesterday, and have spent two days patching things up, but I can't report the success I'd hoped to report tonight. I'll be back on it in the morning, and hopefully things will be looking better as the week goes on.
Thanks for your patience as always,
Jeff
Image Pages Not Showing
Posted Feb 11, 2025 1:55AM UTC
Some image pages are mysteriously not showing. I thought I'd found the underlying cause, but after fixing it, we still get blank pages and no error messages to follow up. I spent the day on it, will get back to it tomorrow, and will post updates here:
Issues
Posted Jan 28, 2025 2:29AM UTC
OlderGay.Men turned 29 last Friday. I didn't get around to commemorating it in the newsletter that day, so here's something to celebrate:
I added a public bug tracker at https://oldergay.men/issues. Like most pages on the site, each issue's page will have an "Add a comment" button if you're logged in, so please use them if you find something that might help (or just want to commiserate with other members waiting for a fix).
I have a stack of requests piled up; I hope this will make the work more visible and let me communicate better with everyone. It's plugged into our GitHub issues, showing any I label as "public" (no one else needs to hear about ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PG::UndefinedColumn: ERROR: column "users_count" does not existLINE 1: ...scourse_user_groups" SET "users_count" = COALESCE("users_cou...). Tracking problems there will be better for me, too. GitHub has good tools for creating branches related to issues and resolving the...