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OlderGay.Men started with pictures. One of my goals when I remade the site four years ago was to root out all the duplicates that had crept into the collection. I came up with a system that worked well. Until it didn't. Due to a broken dependency. I tried to make friends with the folks involved, but they weren't into it.

I put a stopgap measure in place which, of late, has ensured duplicates instead of preventing them. I started searching for alternatives. An old friend came to town and dragged me through assorted older men fleshpots. When I recovered, a new friend helped me get things working again this weekend. We're now updating the 11,000+ images which were added in the meantime. Hopefully, by the time you're reading this, we'll be on our way back to a more sensible set of pictures, and I'll be...

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I let yesterday get away from me, and didn't get to wishing everyone a happy anniversary; OlderGay.Men turned 28. Hope you enjoyed it with good friends — and maybe a cute man — at your side.

Jeff

When you're browsing men now, you'll see a little envelope next to the name of anyone you've talked to before. If you click through to his profile, under the button to write to him, you'll find a link that brings up your previous conversations. Hope this helps clear out some of the clutter and helps you stay in touch with OGM friends.

Supporting members can now save private notes about other members. You can add them at the top of the other member's profile page or the bottom of conversations with him, and they'll also appear as you're browsing members at https://oldergay.men/users . We hope it's useful for storing phone numbers, birthdays, reminders of shared interests — anything you want to remember!

Today, I'm happy to say that our long nightmare seems to be over; image rating should be working again. If you go to an image's page, like:

https://oldergay.men/images/c37a387edf0db2d341d874845911e270

, you should again see stars you can click to judge how hot you think it is. Your favorites will be linked from your profile, like on:

https://oldergay.men/users/jeff-covey

If you want to review everything posted since this broke, it's in order from newest to oldest here:

https://oldergay.men/images

That includes all the images uploaded by members. If you just want to go through the images added to the official collection, you'll find them at:

https://oldergay.men/new

, and pictures of members at:

https://oldergay.men/images/members

So there you go. Hope it's all working well for everyone again. If you're interested in why it took so long, let's just say that JavaScript bundling is the...

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Thanks for your patience, we're chatting again.

Thanks to zax827 for the heads-up that our chat rooms disappeared for most of our members! Since I wasn't affected, I didn't see it, though I wondered why it had gotten so quiet. 😀

It looks like only staff members can access the chat at the moment. I wrote the providers of our chat rooms and discussion boards to ask what happened. I'm sorry for the interruption; in the meantime, the conversations are still going on. Hope you can connect with like-minded friends there and get back to live chat with them soon.

Jeff

I made some updates to the site which broke access to everyone's messages today. I fixed the problem, and you should be able to see your inbox again. Let us know if you still can't get in.

Thanks for your patience!
Jeff

Once Up A Time, OlderGay.Men had an account on Facebook. We posted updates there and replied to Facebook users' questions. Five years ago, questions arose about whether Facebook was a healthy place to be. I effectively closed my personal account after a final straw and deleted OlderGay.Men's presence there.

We did continue on Twitter, but it looks like that's coming to an end as well, at least for now. We've been receiving notices for weeks from Front, the company that helps us track problems for our members, that they're removing Twitter as a communications channel because Twitter is increasing the cost of API access beyond what they can support. In recent days, Twitter notified us that we could no longer...

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You'll now see a "What's New" button at the top of each page that will pop in a window into some of what's happening around the site. Hope it helps you find even more friends and fun.

Jeff