July 6th, 2017
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Coverboy Shay Michaels of Los Angeles
Back to the future
By Daddy 07/06/2017
Las Vegas, NV — The biggest immediate obstacle that I have right now is cash flow. Any donations are gratefully accepted! Here is the donation page: donation page.
For those that are snail mail challenged, here is a message-forum thread that has several different ways to get a donation to me. I'll gleam the information and redo the donation page when I get a spare hour.
The tag line on the first page of the site says: "Dedicated to reviews of interest to Mature Gay Gentlemen." and while I acknowledge that "Younger Gay Men" are a big part of that interest, there is a lot more that is apart of that interest. "Where can I go out with a handsome young man to eat and not be harassed? What bars would I enjoy going to? Where can I stay and not have eyebrows raised? What websites would I be interested in checking out?"
Once we start getting more of that type of content, then my audience for advertisers grows. More advertisers makes the site more viable. The only audience I have right now seems to be Porn sites. I just don't want to fill the page with Porn ads. I think we can have a far more diverse advertiser base.
A big part of the database design was letting the user change their information. A reviewer should be able to edit their reviews over more than one session and not worry about losing their content.
A reviewee should be able to change the profile information. That requires that I have a member management system (children, behave!)
There should be backend that doesn't require a Computer Scientist to publish the reviews. The process should eliminate as much of the manual actions as possible.
The database design is complete and is rapidly stabilizing. The backend is far enough along that I'm able to publish the reviews. Every week it gets easier and faster to get a review out. I've started working on the new frontend put have barely scratched the surface.
Weekly progress reports go into "The Cabana" a forum reserved for people that have made donations in the current year. For every two reviews that you've seen, I've updated another review page that you haven't seen. The process time has dropped greatly, enough that I now have time to work on the code 2 or 3 days a week.
Big Old Hug and a Kiss,
Daddy
