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We’ve restarted our Twitter feed, so you can follow our updates there if it’s convenient for you:

https://twitter.com/OlderGayDotMen

If you look at our places page, you’ll see we’ve started adding photos of the places we list. It brightens the site and helps you get an idea of whether you’d like to visit a venue that catches your eye (when we can go visit places again...). We’ll be adding photos for groups and events, too. This is another large, long-term undertaking like our photo editing. If you have time on your hands and would like to help, just let us know! It doesn’t require any special knowledge and whatever you can contribute would be welcome; every bit helps.

Enjoy, all!
Jeff

Please read this; it's important for anyone who recently replied to a message on the site or is waiting for a reply. I’m sending an extra newsletter this week to get the word out.

A member reported a bug in our messaging system yesterday. If you replied to a message someone sent you, instead of sending the reply, the site was moving the message to the trash. I found the problem and fixed it this morning. This was, of course, a huge bug, and I'm sorry for everyone's inconvenience.

If you've only sent messages to other members – new, first-time messages – this doesn't affect you. But if someone wrote you and you wrote back (even a new reply in an old ongoing conversation), you'll need to double-check whether your message went through. Unfortunately, the text of any reply you sent is gone.

What To Do:

1. Go to your trash folder
2. Look for any conversations you didn't mean to...

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I have some exciting news to share about photos on the site.

Two weeks ago, I started work on the next item on our Patreon-produced todo list, letting members upload multiple photos at once. For reasons too boring to detail (the way I’ve set up the collection, images have a lot of ancillary information connected to them and how do you process it for many pictures going up at once, yada yada), that’s still in progress. But while working on that, I worked up some ideas that are dramatically improving our pictures.

The first week, I made changes that optimized the image files without changing the images themselves. These changes have been applied to nearly the entire collection now, and while they don’t affect how the pictures look, you should find them loading more quickly.

This past week, I worked on a bigger challenge with bigger rewards. We can now replace pictures with improved versions, and all the links to the old version redirect to...

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I have some exciting news to share about photos on the site.Two weeks ago, I started work on the next item on our todo list, letting members upload multiple photos at once. For reasons too boring to...

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Members can now upload photos which can only be seen by other members they choose to share with. When you upload a photo, you'll be asked whether you want it to be public or private. Once you have private images, when you visit someone's profile, you'll be asked whether you want to share your private photos with him. (You'll also be asked at the bottom of conversations.) This has been a long time coming, hope you enjoy it! Let us know if you run into any problems.

OK, so...It's been a week of palpable ups and downs. 🙂 I devoted it to letting members of the site add private photos of themselves and share them only with other members they choose.Simple, no?Well...

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I incorporated our discussion board into the newsfeed this week, so you can keep an eye on what people are saying, limiting it to people you follow if there’s too much going on. I have just a few mo...

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I did more work on the newsfeed this week. We track more activities across the site now, and you can limit what you see to people you follow (your favorites) or who follow you. The newsletter will a...

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I married myself to one goal this week and saw it through. 🙂 As with everything, it took four times as long as I expected, but it's working. If you go to https://oldergay.men/ now, you'll see a "Wha...

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